Women / Persons ~ P10878

Mrs. Porter

Gender: Female

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Adventure, physical feat or survival
Frontierswoman
Pioneer

Note: Virginia. She used her husban'ds sword to kill two men entering her house, and shot another following her upstairs. She and husband escaped, house and barn were burned by Indians. two versions almost identical.

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Biographies (2 Total)

Mrs. Porter Author: John Frost . Collection Title: Heroic Women of the West: Comprising Thrilling Examples of Courage, Fortitude, Devotedness, and Self-Sacrifice, among the Pioneer Mothers of the Western Country. 1854
On the Indian Trail Author: William Worthington Fowler . Collection Title: Woman on the American Frontier: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the “Pioneer Mothers of the Republic”. . 1876