This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iVB.2ACI/1306.1 Message Board Post: What evidence do you have that Christopher Porter ever lived in Lincoln Co., NC? He is found in the county records of Orange, Caswell, and Buncombe, NC. There are many Porters in Lincoln Co., but I've never ran across the name Christopher. I think you are right about the identity of the sons except for one. You have the wrong Robert Porter. The one you want died in Benton Co., AL c1840. On the tombstone of Robert Scott Porter in Parker Co., TX, is the inscrption son of William Porter.