WELCOME! We hope you will find family, histories and roots here which will excite you about your forebearers and their legacy. I am Roger Sarel Porter, great-grandson of Aaron B. Porter Sr. and Rebecca Margaret Poole. You can reach me by clicking on the "E-mail Me" button to the right. Please help with suggestions, new information or photos which will enhance this site for all our relatives. Your obscure photo may be the only one of its kind, such as some we have included here, so we hope you'll share! Many thanks in advance for your caring and sharing! Roger
Alvin W. Nichols Site:.
Maria Louisa Pickett Site:
Bulo Lee Briggs Site:
Nathan T. Porter Site:
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Pages to view within this site:
Aaron Benjamin Sr. and
Rebecca Poole Porter Children Page:
Aaron Benjamin Jr. and Eva
Allanna Nichols Porter Family Page:
Ethel Sarah Porter and
James Albert Johnson Family Page:
Edna Margaret Porter and
John Hegsted Family Page:
Aaron Benjamin Sr. and Rebecca Poole
Porter Family Homes and sites Page:
Many thanks to Leslie Fowers for the photo and information below and also the photo of
Milburn lived in Muscatine Co.Iowa (died before the photo taken}
Wyatt migrated to California then Oregon
Ewalt wounded during civil war and died at home in 1863 possibly in the home of William and is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, West Liberty, Muscatine, Iowa
One sister Adaline md Thomas Walker and went to Kansas and Oklahoma.
Daughters of John Rawlston and Jennette Poole:
L-R: Adeline Malinda Yearsley, Rebecca Margaret Porter, Jeanette Alice Caldwell, Susanna Rosetta Lawson, Christena Jane Green
Jennette Bleasdale Poole
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Rebecca Poole Porter Home Page:
WELCOME! We hope you will find family, histories and roots here which will excite you about your forebearers and their legacy. I am Roger Sarel Porter, great-grandson of Aaron B. Porter Sr. and Rebecca Margaret Poole. You can reach me by clicking on the "E-mail Me" button to the right. Please help with suggestions, new information or photos which will enhance this site for all our relatives. Your obscure photo may be the only one of its kind, such as some we have included here, so we hope you'll share! Many thanks in advance for your caring and sharing! Roger
Historical Summary:
John Rawlston Poole and Jennette Bleasdale met and married in Iowa and came west in 1850. After settling in Centerville and then farming north of Ogden on the Weber River bottoms, he married twice more in plural marriage the Bitton sisters, Jane and Harriet, with whom he became acquainted as he helped their family during the handcart company rescue in which he participated. John worked with the railroad and winter found them working the grade at Roberts, Idaho. He decided to winter over and an indian friend told him of the "Island" between the Teton and Snake Rivers. He wintered there, sent for his family and in 1879 settled his wives and family in the area to be known as "Poole's Island" and later "Menan," which is a few miles south and west of Rexburg today. His daughter, Rebecca Margaret Porter moved in 1900 with her family to nearby Burton, 2 miles west of Rexburg. After Rebecca's husband, Aaron B. Porter Sr., died in 1904, she was left to raise her family by herself on the rugged plains. We owe a great deal to these two families and do well to study their histories and to follow their example of tenacity and faith.
Roger Porter
Note on Spelling of
Jennette Bleasdale:
From Les Fowers,
Poole Family Org. Pres.:
"pre 1850 Iowa marriage record, “Ancestors of John Rawlston Poole by Elaine B. Poole, Poole Tombstone in Cedar Butte cemetery, Menan, and from the Bleasdale family is that Jennette Bleasdale is the correct spelling. You will see many variations on genealogy files, however."
