Stark Porter, Franklin Parish Louisiana

Submitted by: DeWanna Lindo

Sept 2001





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Stark Porter was born 1818 in Union County, South Carolina, and died 1859 

in Winnsboro, La.. 

He married Sarah Ann Bevill Abt. 1837 in Union Co.,S.C., daughter of Rardon Bevill 

and Mary Long.



Sometime after 1842, the family moved from SC, to join his brother Handcock Porter 

in Shelby Co. Alabama.

They left Alabama around 1855 in route to Louisiana. They stopped in Miss.

for Sarah to give birth.  The family arrived in Franklin Parish, La. 1856



Children of Stark Porter and Sarah Bevill are:



Hezekiah Porter, born 1839 in SC.  He married Amanda.

Rardon Porter, born in SC; died in Leon Co., TX.

John Ibzan Porter, born November 04, 1842 in Union Co. SC; 

Mary E. Porter, born 1846 in Shelby Co., Ala.

John B. Porter, born 1849 in Shelby Co., Ala.

David Porter, born March 06, 1855 in Miss.; died December 17, 1899 in La.

Stark Porter Jr.