Any suggestions on how Calvin can proceed with his research? I'm at a loss to help him. Thanks! -- Jenny Tenlen >From: "Calvin Porter" <sereno@thegrid.net> >To: <jennyrt@halcyon.com> >Subject: Query >Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 01:21:00 -0700 > > I contacted the researcher and she will get back to me. >I have picked up bits and pieces of this family Story. > > Albert or as my Grandmother has told me was really named Dellbert >Porter. Grace Fredericka Watson my GreatGrandMother Was with Albert before >Nov 5 1911 as this is the Birth Date for my GrandFather Edward Earl Porter . >Albert Porter and Grace Bever being the names on the birth Certificate. >Grace ahving taken her StepFather Last name of Bever. > A Picture taken in 1912 shows all three with a 4th person cut out except >for a partial shoe and leg. the material looks to be the heavy material you >would see in a Ladies skirt of that time period. There is no idea who that >person would be. Edward carried this Picture with him until his death in Dec >8 1939. > Edward was in a Logging accident . He was struck by a widow limb his >partner having gone back to the truck upon returning found him. They say he >should have been dead as soon as it hit him but he lived for Three more days >long enough for the Family to arrive from Oregon to see him. > My Father Melvin Leroy Porter was only a few months old . >Edward did have a daughter from a previous marriage. My Aunt lives here in >the same town as I do but I already know more about her Father then she ever >did. I managed to obtain pictures of Edward that his step Brothers had , >that even my GrandMother or Aunt did not have. > The Picture gives Albert , Graces and Edwards age at the time it was >taken. Albert was in Logging by the boots he is wearing. The rest of the >picture i have described previously. > The researcher emailed me back and said it would be awhile. she thought >it a good idea to look in the 1920 census , but I explained that by then >Albert had left and I was looking for a Porter family in Centralia at that >time as that is where Edward was born. > Grace was born in Porter Washington , North of Centralia . I dont know >where exactly. I have tried for marriage , divorce papers with no >success. To date I have had no response to my Queries. I even tried a >newspaper announcement of Edwards birth but that paper was missing. And >there are way too many Albert Porter,s in Washington at that time to match >them up. > Grace would not talk about Albert , though they tried to ask her about >him. And since she past away in 1954 I was never given a chance to talk to >her. This is my Brick Wall. Surprising since its in the States. My Mothers >side came from Switzerland and a Family Friend from the town they were from >in Switzerland gave me birth , marriage and baptismal records back to the >1600s. > Well you now have as much as I know if you have any suggestions on how I >might break through this Brick Wall I would be most thankful. > > >Calvin Sereno Porter >