Bradford L. Porter

Birth Date

1809-05-26

Death Date

1865-05-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Rogers Porter in Logan County, Kentucky, on October 11, 1830. Father of Nancy Porter, Mary Porter, Martha Porter, Margaret Porter, Thomas B. Porter, and Hershel Porter. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 73B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 657.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 803.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Logan County Marriages, Film #000364550, p. 90.
"Bradford Lawrence Porter (1809-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #113724370, accessed August 4, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113724370.

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