Margaret Porter

1819-1890 · North Carolina

Born 1819, North Carolina

Died 1890

Children include Lawrence

Margaret Porter was born in North Carolina on 25 June 1819. A family tree on her grave memorial gives her parents as Lawrence Porter and Elizabeth Parks, and her oldest known son carried her father's given name: Lawrence Lawful Canupp, born in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1846.

She married Caleb Canup, a North Carolina farmer three years younger than she was. By 1860 they had moved west to Johnson County, Illinois, where a younger son, John Wesley, was born in 1857.

In December 1863 Caleb enlisted in the Union army at Grays Mill. He was mustered in at Camp Butler, near Springfield, in February 1864, and died at home on 4 April 1864. Margaret was forty-four and a widow. She lived another twenty-six years, died on 31 December 1890, aged seventy-one, and was buried in West Eden Cemetery near Caleb. When her son John Wesley died in 1932, his death record named his mother as Margaret Porter.

Children

Lawrence Lawful Canupp 1846-1901

Sources

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1948, John Wesley Canupp, 1932, naming his mother as Margaret Porter (FamilySearch); Find a Grave memorials 51264901 and 42299235

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Cite: Heirology, "Margaret Porter (1819-1890)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/margaret-porter-1819-1890-803f26.