Sarah R. Thomas

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Sarah R. Thomas (Porter)

Also Known As: "Sally", "Sarah R. Thomas", "Sarah Thomas"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Death: December 27, 1884 (82)
Sevier, Tennessee, United States
Place of Burial: Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Mitchell Alexander Porter and Penelope Anna Porter
Wife of Henry Massengill Thomas
Mother of Sallie Rinehart; Eliza P. C. "Kate" Hammer; Isaac Mitchell Thomas; Pleasant Henry Thomas; McKendree Porter "Mack" Thomas, Sr. and 4 others
Sister of Lt. Col. Alexander T. Porter; William Porter; Elizabeth Christina Porter; Esther V. Runyan; John W. Porter and 6 others

Managed by: John Edward Thomas, Jr.
Last Updated:

About Sarah R. Thomas

Appears in "Isaac Thomas of Sevierville, Tennessee," compiled by Charlotte Bailey Wynn (1980).



According to "Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution," Second Pamphlet:

Mitchell Porter applied for revolutionary pension while living in Sevier County, Tenn. he was born about 1760. He enlisted in Winchester, VA., in Virginia Troops, in 1777. He moved in 1780 to Botetourt County, VA., and after the War moved to the Tennessee Country. He died in Sevier county, April 3, 1836. His widow, Penelope Porter, applied for pension in Sevier County, Feb. 4, 1839, aged about 74 therefore born about 1765. They were married in 1785 in Virginia. The original pages of the Family Bible are enclosed showing their children’s names: Alexander born 1786; William, born 1787; Elizabeth, born 1790; Ester, born 1791; John W., born 1793; Mary, born 1795; Mitchell, Jr., born 1796; Joshua Mc., born 1797, died 1803; Nancy, born 1801; Sally R., born 1802; James Douthett, born 1805, and Mc (Kindree?) born 1807.


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Sarah R. Thomas's Timeline

1802
December 14, 1802
Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
1824
1824
1826
May 11, 1826
Sevier County, Tennessee, United States
1828
April 19, 1828
Tennessee, United States
1830
August 11, 1830
Sevier County, Tennessee, United States
1835
April 6, 1835
Sevier County, Tennessee, United States
November 11, 1835
Sevierville, TN, United States
1837
November 23, 1837
Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee, United States
1843
February 16, 1843
Sevier Co., Tennessee USA