Hancock County WV Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Sarah L.  February 13, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): March 09, 1864
Died February 13th, 1864, Mrs. Sarah, wife of George M'C. Porter, Esq., of New
Cumberland, West Virginia, and daughter of the late Rev. David Lewis, of Indiana
County, Pennsylvania, in the 26th year of her age. The deceased, with three
brothers, accompanied her widowed mother when she became a resident of Washington,
Pa. in 1853. She immediately entered, as a pupil, the Washington Female Seminary,
and was graduated in 1865 with high credit. In the following Winter she was awakened
to her spiritual interests, during a powerful revival of religion in the
Presbyterian church of that place, and passed through an experience which changed
the current of her life. She was one of seventy who, on an ever memorable communion
Sabbath in March, 1856, took upon them, the vows of God, in the presence of his
people… Her marriage, August 30th, 1859, resulted in her transfer to another State,
and into new circumstances. The first Winter of her married life was spent in
Richmond, her husband being at that time a member of the Virginia House of Delegates
where, amidst the worldly attractions inseparable from public life at a Capital, she
maintained at once a high social position and the Consistency of a religions life.
The fire of patriotism was stirred in her bosom by the project of secession.  She
was in full sympathy with her husband in his efforts to resist the pestilent heresy…
For was her patriotic support less in his large share of the responsible work of
organizing the new State of West Virginia… Only the desolation which her death has
wrought, in the heart of her stricken husband can measure her devotion as a wife.
Nor shall her two dear little children, one of them an infant of a few weeks, ever
adequately learn, from the report of others, what a mother they have lost... 



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