Individual Details
Reese Porter
(1 Jul 1776 - 15 Sep 1811)
Of Giles County TN
Minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Logan Co KY County Court. 19 Nov 1804. Rees Porter appeared in Court & acknowledged that he had emancipated George, a Negro man.
Logan Co Deed Book K, p.215 9 May 1822. John Porter of Giles Co TN, Commissioner under decree of Logan Circuit Court in behalf of Rees Porter, Decd. Jean B. Porter, Ellinoer M. Porter, Reese W. Porter, heirs, sell 188 acres to James Foster for $1430.
Intestate. Case filed 23 Apr 1821. Daugher Janetta mentioned; John Porter named guardian of infants, Elleanor and Reese W. Porter, dau and son.
Equity Case in Logan Co KY [Box 6, Case #109]
John Porter, guardian of Porter children asks that administrators come to a settlement or adjustment of their accounts with the guardian of the benefits due the infant children. Listed are Jennetta B. Porter, daughter, Nelly McNees Porter, daughter, Reese W. Porter, son, and Sally D. Porter Ewing, remarried widow. Adm: Sally D. Porter, now Ewing, Joseph B. Porter, and William Whitsett. Reese Porter is listed of Giles Co TN.
Filed 24 Jul 1817. Reese Porter heirs vs. William Whitsett. Died testate.
The book on descendants of William & Peggy Fleming Brown by Rugeley has errors concerning the details of this family. Rugeley gave two wives for Reese Porter Jr: 1st Mary Whitsett and 2nd Sally D. Ewing who died on Wed 4 Feb 1829. She also states that Mary Whitsett died on the same day as Reese. Since he was dead how could he have taken a 2nd wife? Obviously the Logan Co KY records were not accessed. The marriage records reveal that Reese Porter's wife was Sarah "Sally" Whitsitt, not Mary. Estate records and deeds from Logan Co reveal that Reese left a widow who remarried and three minor children. Sally Whitsitt Porter's 2nd marriage is also recorded in Logan Co - she married 2nd in Aug of 1813 to William Y. C. Ewing. Sally's parents were William Whitsitt and Eleanor "Ellen" Menees/McNees. Sally had a brother James Whitsitt who was a Baptist minister in Davidson Co TN - that could be how she became acquainted with Reese Porter. If there is some proof of a wife named Mary in regard to Reese Junior, that would have had to have been a Mary whose surname is unknown and would have taken place before he married Sally Whitsitt in 1804 and there would have been no surviving children of said marriage.
Garrett's War of 1812 Soldiers, p.159, said to list Reese Porter, Junr, wife Sarah Whitsitt. Since he died 1811, this is quite confusing.
Events
| Birth | 1 Jul 1776 | Orange County, North Carolina |  | ||
| Marriage | 21 May 1804 | Logan County, Kentucky - Sarah "Sally" Whitsitt | | ||
| Death | 15 Sep 1811 | Giles County, Tennessee |  | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah "Sally" Whitsitt (1783 - 1829) |
| Child | Janetta B. Porter ( - ) |
| Child | Elleanor McNees "Nelly" Porter ( - ) |
| Child | Reese Whitsitt Porter ( - ) |
| Father | Reese Porter (1745 - 1821) |
| Mother | Jane Brown (1745 - 1806) |
| Sibling | William Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph B. Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | John B. Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | James Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | David Washington Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | Elias Porter ( - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Craighead Porter ( - ) |
Notes
Death
Reese died at 3:30 PM on a Sunday. Buried in the Mount Moriah Graveyard.Endnotes
1. Helen Hoskins Rugeley, Brown, William and Margaret (Peggy Fleming), Descendants of: (Especially No. 50, Col. Joseph Borwn, 1772-1868, the Principal Source of Our Early Genealogy) Microfiche #6010694, 7 fiche, 3rd Edition; 1983, and Microfiche #6010695, Vol II, 5 fiche, Notes and Sources; Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah..
2. Logan County Genealogical Society,Inc., Logan County Kentucky Marriages 1790-1865 (c.1981; Additions and Corrections 1985), p.74 "Rees Porter to Sally Wittsitts".
3. Helen Hoskins Rugeley, Brown, William and Margaret (Peggy Fleming), Descendants of: (Especially No. 50, Col. Joseph Borwn, 1772-1868, the Principal Source of Our Early Genealogy) Microfiche #6010694, 7 fiche, 3rd Edition; 1983, and Microfiche #6010695, Vol II, 5 fiche, Notes and Sources; Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah., #59 Reese Porter Junior.