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Nancy Sam Porter

Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Death
3 Oct 1940 (aged 43–44)
Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Turner Township, Murray County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Calculated year of birth based on age given in funeral home record. That record and the obituary differ in her age at death.

Printed in The Davis News on Oct. 3, 1940; Reprinted with permission

Mrs. Thornton Porter,
Hennepin Pioneer, Dies


Mrs. Nancy Porter, 46, full blood Indian who had lived near Hennepin most of her life, died at 2 a.m. Wednesday in a Shawnee hospital where she had been for several weeks.

Funeral services will be held at Hennepin Friday at 3 p.m.

Survivors are her husband, Thornton Porter; five children – two in the army at Fort Sill, two in Carter seminary at Ardmore, and a small child in the Sockey home; also three sisters, Mrs. Delia Cooper, Mrs. Ned Sockey and Mrs. Frenchman; and three brothers, George, Joe and Amos Sams, all of Hennepin.

Hutchins & Sons Funeral Home Record
Nancy Porter of Hennepin, Okla
Married, Housewife
Age: 44 yrs
Cause of death: TB
Husband: Thornton Porter
Father: Sams
Burial: 10/4/1940
Calculated year of birth based on age given in funeral home record. That record and the obituary differ in her age at death.

Printed in The Davis News on Oct. 3, 1940; Reprinted with permission

Mrs. Thornton Porter,
Hennepin Pioneer, Dies


Mrs. Nancy Porter, 46, full blood Indian who had lived near Hennepin most of her life, died at 2 a.m. Wednesday in a Shawnee hospital where she had been for several weeks.

Funeral services will be held at Hennepin Friday at 3 p.m.

Survivors are her husband, Thornton Porter; five children – two in the army at Fort Sill, two in Carter seminary at Ardmore, and a small child in the Sockey home; also three sisters, Mrs. Delia Cooper, Mrs. Ned Sockey and Mrs. Frenchman; and three brothers, George, Joe and Amos Sams, all of Hennepin.

Hutchins & Sons Funeral Home Record
Nancy Porter of Hennepin, Okla
Married, Housewife
Age: 44 yrs
Cause of death: TB
Husband: Thornton Porter
Father: Sams
Burial: 10/4/1940


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  • Created by: J&G Sanders
  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45378657/nancy-porter: accessed ), memorial page for Nancy Sam Porter (1896–3 Oct 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 45378657, citing Hennepin Cemetery, Turner Township, Murray County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by J&G Sanders (contributor 46870497).