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                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
MARRIAGE RECORD, Burt County Clerk, Tekamah, Nebraska; Book 1, page 120.
OBITUARY, 1934.

In the year 1865, Jonathan came with his parents in covered wagon drawn by his
father's ox team, and he has been a resident of Burt County ever since.  He
passed away 16 Mar 1934 and leaves his wife, Anna; son Clarence of Tekamah; one
grandson, C. Orval Porter of Omaha; one brother, Orin Porter of Decatur; and
one half-sister, Mrs. Jane Livingston of Oklahoma.  In 1885, he and his wife,
Anna, attended lectures of a Seventh Day Adventist missionary evangelist, and
with neighbors united with the Decatur Church of Seventh Day Adventist on 18
Apr 1886.  He served the church as leader and elder for a longterm, and as
clerk of the church cemetery association continually from 1892 untill his
death.

Jonathan Porter was very active in the community and did his part to transform
the barrian prairie into farm land with modern equipment.  For many years he
was acive in supporting the Burt County Fair and improving roads, social and
religious facilities in all parts of the county and in later years he became
identified with the Pioneers and Old Settlers Association of Burt County.  He
was elected to 17 three-year terms as moderator of the school board of
District 35.
                  

                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
MARRIAGE RECORD, Burt County Clerk, Tekamah, Nebraska; Book 1, page 423.
OBITUARY, of Emma (HENNIG) PORTER, 23 Nov 1943; for many years a valued
minister among Seventh-day Adventists of Nebraska and for a while in Wyoming.
                  

                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
MARRIAGE RECORD, Burt County Clerk, Tekamah, Nebraska; Book 2, page 544.
OBITUARY, 6 Mar 1941, Burt County Plaindealer, Tekamah, Nebraska.

When only four and one-half years old, and the youngest child, the Porter
family came by ox-team and wagon from Iowa to Nebraska and located in the
Golden Springs community.  He was the last survivor of the family of eleven
chidren.  Orin Porter married Maude Hennig, at Decatur, on 13 Jun 1888.  They
started life on a nearby farm, the same one on which they have lived for the
past fifty-three years.  In 1938, they celebrated their golden wedding
aniversary with theur three children, Ivan C., Burrel H., and Esther A., family
and friends.  It was a double event as it also marked their half century on the
same farm.