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O. Henry

Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer


    Sarah Lusk

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    • Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 4th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 24 Nov 1755 
    • Birth Location:
    • prob. Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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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 
    • 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

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  • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.