Subscriptions are now being received for the fund to be used in the erection at Lower Salem of a memorial to Amos Porter, which will be dedicated on July 15 of this year under the auspices of the Washington County Pioneer Association. As it is the desire that many people contribute to this fund, the subscriptions are in the sum of ten cents each.
Subscription books have been placed at various places throughout the county and people desiring to contribute to the fund will have no difficulty in finding them. Among those in Marietta is one at the office of The Times company, where subscriptions are being received. You can leave your dime there and receive a receipt for it, if convenient for you.
Amos Porter was the youngest and last survivor of the forty-eight pioneers who landed at Marietta on April 7, 1788. He was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts, February 20, 1769, and died at Lower Salem, Ohio, November 28, 1861. About two years after the famous landing, he returned to Massachusetts, making the entire journey on foot.
Mr. Porter's first wife was Sabra Toleman, who was the mother of all his children. His second wife was Mrs. Sally Perkins Sutton. His children were Amos, born January 18, 1796; William, November 4, 1797; Samuel, February 24, 1799; Thomas, November 7, 1800; Rufus, April 23, 1802, Hiram, April 4, 1804; Lydia, May 28, 1806; Jerusha, May 25, 1808; Almer, May 10, 1810.
Amos died in early manhood, unmarried. Rufus and Hiram died in childhood. William married three times, his first wife being Mary Sutton, his second Polly Stanley, and his third Mrs. Betsy Fowler Toleman. He had ten children. He and six of his children moved to southern Illinois, where he died.
Samuel wedded Mary Palmer. He had three children and died at Salem, Ohio. Thomas first married Rhoda Sutton and later Polly Stille, having six children. At the time of the compilation of this history, 1881, all of them were dead with exception of Mrs. Joseph Cox of Lowell and Thomas Porter was then living at Belpre. He was a man of remarkable physical strength and activity and was a noted conductor of the underground railroad in years gone by.
Lydia married S. N. Meriam of Lowell, where they in 1881 resided, a well-preserved couple. Jerusha wedded a Mr. Davis and had three children, and in 1881 was supposed to be still living in the West. Almer, the youngest member of the family, lived on the homestead, where he died some time near 1890. He had six children: Eliza Porter Twiggs, Sally Porter Hall (dead), Meriden Porter Moore, Daniel Porter, Charles Porter and Hosea Porter.
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