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Title: Union Cemetery
Description: Listing of people "born in the 18th Century" and buried in Union Cemetery including Richard Simpson (born in 1770), Mrs. Elizabeth Porter (born in 1750), Reverend James Porter (born in 1786), and Mrs. Jane Porter (born in 1786), et al.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Union Cemetery
Description: Description of members of the local Porter family interred at Union Cemetery, including Elizabeth Porter (1750-1845), a native of Ireland and widow of Samuel Porter, her son Reverend James Porter (1786-1851), his wife Jane Porter (1786-1873), and James's son Jesse Porter and his wife Lucy Porter, respectively.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy
Description: Mention of James Porter as purchaser of a farm from Isaac McCoy on land between "about 33rd street, on the south, extending north almost to the Union Cemetery; and from Main on the west, to about Locust street on the east."
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Founders of Methodism in This Community
Description: Mention of Mrs. W. Ewing Hall as a granddaughter of Reverend James Porter, founder of the local Methodist Society in 1845, with a footnote about him arriving in Kansas City in 1832 with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, born in 1750.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Methodism in Early Kansas City
Description: Description of the home of James Porter built in 1832 at the later intersection of 27th and Tracy Streets. Services held at locations outside the Methodist Church until built in 1860.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article