Amanda Harriet (Porter) Corrington (1849-1908)

PORTER, CORRINGTON, LINN, GIRARD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/28/2017 at 20:40:50

From Nevada Representative March 2, 1908

The funeral of Mrs. Benton Corrington was attended Saturday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, with a large attendance of sympathetic friends and an appreciative service by Rev. A. M. Boyd, together with appropriate music by the Presbyterian choir. Life and hope were symbolized with plants and flowers and white drapings and thought was lifted out of the gloom of death into the light of immortality. Interment was in the Nevada Cemetery.

From Nevada Representative March 6, 1908

The members of the Porter family who were called to Nevada last week by the death of Mrs. Benton Corrington have returned to their respective homes. Mr. James A. Porter of Crawfordsville, Indiana went on Monday and his wife followed him on Wednesday, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Nina Porter, the young lady who has resided with the Corringtons of late years and attended the Nevada high school. Prof. Wm. Arthur Porter, who was also her and who is pleasantly remembered as an alumnus of our high school, returned Wednesday accompanied by his wife, to the educational position which he holds aat Moline, Illinois. Mrs. Linn, sister of Mrs. Corrington and her daughter, Mrs. Girard, will remain until next week before going on to their home at Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Linns were residents of Nevada for a few years in the early '90's, owning for some time and living on what has been known as the Lockridge farm north of the fair ground, and subsequently residing in the McGloflin house on Court avenue, while their young people, Elsie, now Mrs. Girard, and Otis attended the high school. Mrs. Linn and Mrs. Girard are both widowed, and they had been spending the winter in California with the son and brother, Rev. Otis L. Linn at Roseville, a station on the Southern Pacific, eighteen miles east of Sacramento, when they were summoned to the funeral of Mrs. Corrington. Rev. O. L. is pastor of the Presbyterian church at Roseville and filling a place of usefulness and honor--a fact which all who remember him will be pleased to note.