Life History

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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Sources

• 1. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 20 April, Prairie Township, District 7, p 6B, Ethel & Chute Rd, Hse #111, Fam #112
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 6 February, Prairie Township, District 16, p 8A, Hse #139, Fam #145
• 3. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. Obituary of Thad Mathew McSwain, DeWitt (Arkansas) Erqa-Enterprise 28 Mar 2007
  •  --  DeWitt Era-Enterprise, http://www.dewitt-ee.com/articles/2007/03/28/news/news09.txt
• 6. Social Security Death Index
• 7. Obituary of Hazel Bob McSwain Porter, Roller Funeral Homes online
  • Name: Name: http://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=12494&locid=34;;
• 8. Obituary of Thad Mathew McSwain, DeWitt (Arkansas) Erqa-Enterprise 28 Mar 2007
• 9. Email Sources
• 10. Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939