Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Metcalfe County.

REV. BRAXTON D. PORTER, of Sulphur Well, was born Novemer 25, 1839, in
Patrick County, Va. He is the son of James Porter and Faney (Baker)
Porter. His father died November 24, 1839, the day before the Rev. Mr.
Porter was born.  He was a millwright, and died at the age of forty
years.  In 1841 Mrs. Porter with her family immigrated to Kentucky and
settled in the northeast portion of Barren (now Metcalfe) County, on
Little Barren River. Rev. Braxton D. is the youngest of the family,
which besides himself consisted of William; Mary M., deceased wife of
Thomas Hill; Columbus, who died while serving as one of the court
officials of Monroe County; German and James, who died in the military
service of the United States. Rev. Mr. Porter married Laura L. Mudd, a
daughter of John and Susan Mudd, also of Green County, Ky., who besides
Mrs. Porter have the following children:  Marion, William, Anna (who
married a Mr. Durrett, and after his death married a Mr. Milby), John,
Elizabeth (who married a Mr. Bennett), Fielding, Susan G. and Martha
(who married a Mr. Rice).  In 1870 Rev. Mr. Porter became a candidate
for the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was admitted
a licentiate of the Cumberland Presbytery that year.  In 1871 he was
ordained to complete work of the ministry, and has been pastor of the
following churches, viz.: Hopewell, Bethel, Antioch, Edmonton, Shiloh,
Cross Roads, Salem, Oceola, Cave Hill, Lick Branch, Hiseville, Mount
Moriah, Pleasant Valley and Casey's Fork.  Within the past ten years
1,200 members have attached themselves to the church through his
ministrations.  He is a voracious reader of books and a constant student
of nature, and has considerable local celebrity as a revivalalist.  He
has been a laboring man all his life, and cultivates a small tract of
fertile land which he owns.  He is a Royal Arch Mason, and in politics a
Prohibitionist.

Baker Bennett Durrett Hill Milby Mudd Porter Rice
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Barren-KY Green-KY Monroe-KY Patrick-VA 

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