Nancy Porter (1832-1914)

GROVER, PORTER, KELSO, POSTUM, KETCHUM

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/14/2015 at 07:55:02

Jackson Sentinel, Oct. 5, 1914

Nancy Grover Porter was born in Huron County, Ohio, April 20, 1832, She passed away from a short illness incident to old age at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Nettie Ketchum at Cherokee, Iowa, on Sunday, September 27, at the mature age 82 years, 5 months and 7 days. She came to Iowa in a wagon from Ohio and located on a government homestead 3 miles south of Baldwin in the Spring of 1852.

July 13, 1854 she was married to Andrew D. Kelso and lived in Clinton County near Wheatland. Her husband died and left her with a baby boy, who died in infancy. A few years later she married John Postum, and this husband met his death by accident and left her a little daughter. She cared for the child and served in different homes to make a living. The daught grew up and married and she made a home with her daughter. The daughter died and left two children whom the grandmother cared for until a stepmother came into the home. Some years later the stepmother died and left thre children whom she again fostered. In 1902 she married James Porter in Missouri and they made their home in Cawker City, Kansas, until Mr. Porter died, when she made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. Ketchum in Cherokee, where she resided until her death.

Mrs. Porter was a member of the Methodist church for a great many years. The funeral was from the Baldwin M. E. church, Rev. D. F. Boomershine officiating. Burial was at the Monmouth cemetery. Besides her grandaughter, Mrs. Nettie Ketchum and three great grandchildren, Herman and James Curry of Baldwin and Fred and Art Daniel of Lost Nation, all nephews, survive to mourn her loss.