William James PORTER Imogene PORTER Hazel Bob MCSWAIN India G BUTLER Mini tree diagram
William Everitt PORTER

William Everitt PORTER6,1,2,7,8,9,3,4

9th Sep 19131,2,3,4 - 12th Feb 19896,3,4

Life History

9th Sep 1913

Born in Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas.1,2,3,4

14th Jan 1939

Married Hazel Bob MCSWAIN in Arkansas County, Arkansas.10

12th Feb 1989

Died in West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas.6,3,4

14th Feb 1989

Buried in Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas.4

2007

Resident in West Helena, Phillips, Arkansas.5

Notes

  • When I found out William E Jack Porter's full name, I found I had his family already in the genealogy, but had lacked the information to identify him.  He had married Hazel Bob McSwain.  All I had previously known was that her married name was Porter.

    In Hazel Bob's obituary in February 2008, I learned her husband's full name, and was then able to connect him to his father, although I have not been able to find out who his mother was.  She died before he was 6 years old.  The various names of Hazel Bob's husband show up in the two censuses of 1920 and 1930, enabling us to confirm that this is his family.

    The family tie is further confirmed in our previous knowledge that the second wife of William E's stepmother Maggie McSwain is Hazel Bob's aunt.  Maggie was a daughter of P K McSwain, and Hazel Bob's father Robert Perry was Maggie's brother.

    William or Jack first appears in the 1920 census with his widowed father and older sister in Ethel, Arkansas.

    1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 6 February, Prairie Township, District 16, p 8A, Hse #139, Fam #145
    Porter, William  Head  Divorced  M W 40 AR AR AR Farmer
    Porter, Emma J  Dau F W 8 AR AR AR
    ** Porter, William  Son M W 6 AR AR AR **

    They are still in the Ethel area in 1930, with Maggie McSwain Rowland as the woman of the household.

    1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 20 April, Prairie Township, District 7, p 6B, Ethel & Chute Rd, Hse #111, Fam #112
    Porter, William  Head M W 48 AR USA USA  Farmer
    Porter, Maggie E Wife  F W 53 AR NC NC
    Porter, Emogene  Daughter  F W 17 AR AR AR
    ** Porter, Jack E  Son  M W 16 AR AR AR Farm Laborer **
    Rowland, Edward  Stepson M W 15 AR KY AR

    "Will, as he was called, already had a son and daughter from a previous marriage before he married Maggie.  Will and Maggie had no children together.".
    --  Shirley Rowland Mitchell, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, April 07, 2015

    Jack married Hazel Bob McSwain in 1939.

    Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939
    Hazel B McSwain, Gender Female
    Spouse Jack Porter
    License Date 13 Jan 1939
    Marriage Date 14 Jan 1939 Arkansas County
    Registered Arkansas County Marriage Book Vol 2, Certificate #270

    U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
    Jack Porter [William Everitt Porter] [William Porter]
    Birth 9 Sep 1913 Ethel (Arkansas County), Arkansas
    Death Date 12 Feb 1989
    Father James W Porter
    Mother India Buttler
    SSN 409223061
    Aug 1940 Name listed as JACK PORTER; Feb 1942 Name listed as WILLIAM EVERITT PORTER; 23 Feb 1989 Name listed as WILLIAM E PORTER

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    William E “Jack” Porter
    Birth 9 Sep 1913 Arkansas, USA
    Death 12 Feb 1989 (aged 75) West Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas, USA
    Burial Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA

    William E. 'Jack' Porter, 75, of West Helena, a retired electrical maintenance employee for Allied Chemical Co., died Sunday.

    Porter was a member of Second Baptist Church.

    Funeral will be at 10 a.m. today at Second Baptist Church by the Rev. James Guthrie. Burial will be in Cedarcrest Cemetery, DeWitt, by Roller-Citizens Funeral Home.

    Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Hazel McSwain; two sons, Joe Porter of West Helena, and James Porter of Florida; a sister, Mrs. Imogene McMinn of Corpus Christi, Texas, and two grandchildren.

    Published in The Arkansas Democrat (LIttle Rock, Arkansas) on Tuesday, February 14, 1989

    Parents:
    William James Porter 1881-1960
    India G Butler 1878-1915
    Spouse Hazel Bob McSwain Porter 1918-2008 (m. 1939)

    Created by Padgett Researcher Ruth the Sleuth 12 Apr 2018
    --  Find a Grave Memorial 188768954, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188768954/william-e_-porter
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