MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - John N. Porter
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JOHN N. PORTER, the youngest son of Thomas N. and Mary F. (Hardin) Porter
was born in what is now Marshall County, Tenn., September 24, 1847.  While
a youth his opportunities for obtaining a schooling were exceedingly
limited, owing to the breaking out of the war.  At the age of sixteen he
volunteered in Company C, Ninth Battalion of Cavalry, and was perhaps the
youngest soldier that went out from Maury County. During eight months'
service he was neither  wounded nor captured.  After the war he rented land
for about four years and then purchased a farm of his own, which now
consists of 454 acres.  Mary R. Rucker became his wife in 1868.  She was
born June 13, 1851, in Hickman County.  Their children's names are as
follows:  M. Frances, Melville E., James R., Emma P., Lucy A., Thomas H.,
John A., Hardin Q., and Tabitha G.  Both husband and wife are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. Porter is a
Democrat.

Surnames: Hardin, Porter, Rucker
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."