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| Birthplace: | Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Death: | Died in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States |
| Managed by: | Anne Kathryn Phillips |
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1. Andrew PORTER (Robert PORTER1) was born 24 Sep 1743 orcester, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, , and died 16 Nov 1813 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He married Elizabeth MCDOWELL 10 Mar 1767. She died 9 Apr 1773.
He married Elizabeth PARKER 20 May 1777, daughter of William PARKER and Elizabeth TODD. She was born 23 Aug 1751, and died 15 May 1821.
His father, Robert, emigrated to this country from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1720, settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and afterward bought land in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania... Children of Andrew PORTER and Elizabeth MCDOWELL are:
3. Elizabeth Rittenhouse PORTER (Andrew PORTER2, Robert PORTER1) was born 27 Sep 1769, and died 21 Jan 1850 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky
She married Robert Porter PARKER 16 Mar 1789 in Arlington / Fayette County, Kentucky, son of James PARKER and Mary TODD. He was born 12 Oct 1760, Montgomery County Pennsylvania and died 5 Mar 1800 in Lexington Fayette County Kentucky
Robert Parker served as a major during the Revolutionary War. After his married on March 10, 1789 to Elizabeth Porter, the couple traveled to Kentucky. There, Robert was one of the group of men who founded the city of Lexington. He built a large brick home on Short Street
THE PARKERS - The family tree shows that the last of Mrs. Lincoln's Todd forbears to live in Europe married a Miss Parker. It is not known that this woman was of the Parker family that in later years was frequently intertwined with the Todds and the Porters in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. There is some likelihood that she was, since the two families were so closely associated and for so many years.
The Parker family must have been an excellent one. The family historians never fail to say so. At the same time, we do not find among them many men or women who were of great prominence. It was the cross between a Parker and a Porter, or a Parker and a Todd, or both, that seemed to produce a superior individual.
The Robert Parker who was Mrs. Lincoln's maternal grandfather was a man of wealth and social position, but the member of his family of whom we read most is his widow, Eliza Parker, and she was born a Porter the daughter of Andrew. The day after her marriage she and her husband left Pennsylvania and rode horseback through the wilderness to Kentucky. It was she, as the "Widow" Parker, who dominated her grandchildren and did so much to make them dissatisfied with their stepmother. The accounts agree that the " Widow " Parker lived in a fine house, had a high social position, and was esteemed a superior woman. However, it was her grandchildren who quarreled amongst themselves and engaged in family law- suits something new in the Todd-Porter-Parker family. pg. 36-37 MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1932) Author: W. A. EVANS Publisher: ALFRED. A . KNOPF Children of Elizabeth Rittenhouse PORTER and Robert Porter PARKER are
20 Eliza Ann / Ann Eliza / Elizabeth Ann PARKER (Robert Porter PARKER1) was born 1794 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, and died July 06, 1825 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky.. She was buried 6 JUL 1825.
She married Robert Smith TODD 26 NOV 1812 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, son of Levi TODD and Jane BRIGGS. He was born 25 FEB 1791 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, and died 15 JUL 1849 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.
Children of Elizabeth Ann PARKER and Robert Smith TODD are:
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September 27, 1769
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Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
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March 16, 1789
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Fayette, Kentucky
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May, 1794
Age 24
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Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
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September 21, 1851
Age 81
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