The Cleburne News December 1919
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County,
Alabama for DECEMBER 1919
NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 4, 1919
W.A. PORTER'S BROTHER KILLED
Thursday afternoon of last week, Hon. W.A. Porter received a telegram stating
that his brother Judge G.K. Porter of Moultrie, GA had fell from a moving
train and had died as a result of the fall. Judge Porter had boarded the
train it is said with his granddaughter, and was conversing with her when the
train started and he hurried to get off, and in stepping to the ground was
unable to hold to his feet and was thrown violently to one side, his head
evidentally striking a rail. Death came early Thursday morning. Judge Porter
was 81 years old and served during the entire Confederate war as color bearer.
He went through the hardest fighting, receiving three wounds. He is survived
by three daughters, two sisters and three brothers.
Source: File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape451gnw.txt
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County,
Alabama for DECEMBER 1919
NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 4, 1919
W.A. PORTER'S BROTHER KILLED
Thursday afternoon of last week, Hon. W.A. Porter received a telegram stating
that his brother Judge G.K. Porter of Moultrie, GA had fell from a moving
train and had died as a result of the fall. Judge Porter had boarded the
train it is said with his granddaughter, and was conversing with her when the
train started and he hurried to get off, and in stepping to the ground was
unable to hold to his feet and was thrown violently to one side, his head
evidentally striking a rail. Death came early Thursday morning. Judge Porter
was 81 years old and served during the entire Confederate war as color bearer.
He went through the hardest fighting, receiving three wounds. He is survived
by three daughters, two sisters and three brothers.
Source: File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape451gnw.txt
The Cleburne News December 1919
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County,
Alabama for DECEMBER 1919
NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 4, 1919
W.A. PORTER'S BROTHER KILLED
Thursday afternoon of last week, Hon. W.A. Porter received a telegram stating
that his brother Judge G.K. Porter of Moultrie, GA had fell from a moving
train and had died as a result of the fall. Judge Porter had boarded the
train it is said with his granddaughter, and was conversing with her when the
train started and he hurried to get off, and in stepping to the ground was
unable to hold to his feet and was thrown violently to one side, his head
evidentally striking a rail. Death came early Thursday morning. Judge Porter
was 81 years old and served during the entire Confederate war as color bearer.
He went through the hardest fighting, receiving three wounds. He is survived
by three daughters, two sisters and three brothers.
Source: File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape451gnw.txt
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County,
Alabama for DECEMBER 1919
NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 4, 1919
W.A. PORTER'S BROTHER KILLED
Thursday afternoon of last week, Hon. W.A. Porter received a telegram stating
that his brother Judge G.K. Porter of Moultrie, GA had fell from a moving
train and had died as a result of the fall. Judge Porter had boarded the
train it is said with his granddaughter, and was conversing with her when the
train started and he hurried to get off, and in stepping to the ground was
unable to hold to his feet and was thrown violently to one side, his head
evidentally striking a rail. Death came early Thursday morning. Judge Porter
was 81 years old and served during the entire Confederate war as color bearer.
He went through the hardest fighting, receiving three wounds. He is survived
by three daughters, two sisters and three brothers.
Source: File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape451gnw.txt
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