Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Sarah Lusk

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• • Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • James Lusk 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Paterson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Nov 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Dec 1833 
  • Death Location:
  • Avon, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Greenwood Cemetery, Avon, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 or 30 MAY 1776 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizur Porter

  Eunice Porter

  Romanta Porter

  Ursula Porter

  Cynthia Porter

  Sidney Porter

  Sidney Porter (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  David Porter

  Elizur Porter

  Annah L. Porter

  John P. Porter

• Sources for Sarah Lusk

  • ¹ Avon, CT: West Avon Congregational Church Records, 1751-1941, FHL No. 8137283, Image 128, Death record for Mrs. Porter.
  • ² Chauncey Lusk Papers, 1793-1858: Biographical Sketch, Old Sturbridge Village Research Library, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
  • ³ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Farmington, Marriage record for William Porter and Sarah Lusk.
  • ⁴ Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, Connecticut Observer, 13 JAN 1834, Obituary for Sarah Porter.
  • ⁵ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Dated 22 APR 1806, Proved 28 DEC 1809, Will of father James Lusk.
  • ⁶ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A210186.
  • ⁷ Family Register of William Porter and Sarah Lusk, (original in the possession of descendant Kathy Russell-Regan, OCT 2021).
  • ⁸ Family Tree for Family of Sidney Porter and Ruth Coffin Worth, (original in the possession of Kathy Russell-Regan, descendant of Sidney's brother Romanta, OCT 2021).
  • ⁹ Farmington, CT: Church Records, 1652-1938, FHL No. 4199687, Image 266, Marriage record for William Porter and Sarah Lusk.
  • ¹⁰ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/23/2021).
  • ¹¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1884, Vol. 39, p. 339, Marriage record for William Porter and Sarah Lusk.
  • ¹² Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 513.
  • ¹³ Webster, William Holcomb and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: With Numerous Portraits and Illustrations, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1915), 427.