Name/Title
Hiram Porter family bible records (including William Rinehart and Elizabeth (Porter) Rinehart family bible records)Entry/Object ID
2011.2.833Scope and Content
Family data, Hiram Porter Family Bible, The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised (Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, 1839). Bible owned in 1978 by Mrs. William Gaylord Rinehart of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who donated the Bible to the Greene County Historical Society (918 Rolling Meadows Road, P.O. Box 127; Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370). Researched and digitized for the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project between 2005-2014.
Within the Hiram Porter Family Bible are family data pages torn from the William Rinehart and Elizabeth (Porter) Rinehart Family Bible. Elizabeth (Porter) Rinehart was the daughter of Hiram Porter and Margaret (Inghram) Porter. These pages also include two entries from the Inghram family.
PAGE 1 - Title Page
"THE / HOLY BIBLE / CONTAINING THE / OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS / TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES / AND WITH / THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED / WITH / CANNE'S MARGINAL NOTES AND REFERENCES / TO WHICH ARE ADDED / AN INDEX; / AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE / OF ALL THE NAMES IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS; / TABLES OF SCRIPTURE WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND COINS, etc. / PHILADELPHIA: / PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY HOGAN & THOMPSON / NO. 30 NORTH FOURTH STREET. / PRINTED BY JESPER HARDING, NO 74 SOUTH SECOND STREET. / 1839"
PAGE 2 - Ownership
"[Newspaper clipping] Thos. R. Porter. Died - At his home, in Franklin township, on Thursday the 8th Inst., Thos. R. Porter, of consumption aged 36 years. He was a son of Hiram Porter, deceased, and had only been sick about four weeks. He was unmarried and a kind, honorable, and upright gentleman, and a member of the M. P. Church. His remains will be interred in Greene Mount Cemetery at this place, today, (Saturday) at 2 o'clock, A. M.
Hiram Porter and / Margaret his wife's / book bought in the / year 1841."
PAGE 3 - Marriages and Deaths
"Hiram Porter and / Margaret his wife / was married in / Febuary the 21 1836
Arthur Inghram Porter / and Ruth his / wife was married / August [21 or 26] 1860
Jonathan B Willison / and Sarah Agnes Porter / his wife was married / March 27th 1864
J. B. F. Rinehart / departed this life / May 1st-1937
William Rinehart and / Elisabeth M his wife was / married in June the 17 1858
John Brice Gordon Rinehart and / Ethel Bell Morris his wife / were married on November / 18th 1931"
PAGE 4 - Births and Deaths
"Hiram Porter was / born June the first / in the year of our / lord 1810
Margaret Porter his / wife was born / October the 23 in the / year of our lord 1813
Arthur Ingram Porter / son of Hiram Porter and / Margaret his wife was born June the 7 in the / year of our lord 1838
Elisabeth Mary Porter / daughter of Hiram Porter / Margaret his wife was born July the 10 in / the year of our lord 1840
Sarah Agnes Porter / daughter of Hiram Porter / and Margaret his wife was born October the 13 / in the year of our lord 1844
Thomas Rinehart Porter / son of Hiram Porter / and Margaret his wife was born December the 5 in the / year of our lord 1849 / died April 8 1886"
PAGE 5 - Births and Deaths
"Arthur Inghram Porter / son of William Rinehart / and Elisabeth M his / wife was born April / the 17 in the year / of our Lord 1859 / died 1888
Margaret T. A. daughter / of William Rinehart / and Elisabeth M his / wife was born May / the 14 and died May the / 19 in the year of our Lord 1861 / died in infancy
Milton Sebastian Ellsworth / son of William Rinehart / and Elisabeth M his wife / was born March the 11 / in the year of our Lord / 1862 / died Oct 12 1930
Willliam Thomas Albert / son of William Rinehart / and Elisabeth M his / wife was born May the / 29 in the year of our / Lord 1864 / died Aug 2 1924
Jessie Levada Dellphine / daughter of William / Rinehart and Elisabeth M / was born November the 17 / in the year of our Lord 1866
James Bennet Franklin / son of William Rinehart / and Elizabeth M his / wife was born March / the 8 in the year of our Lord 1869
Louie Francis Evaline / daughter of William / and Elizabeth M his / wife was born Feb / 16 1872 in the year of our / Lord
George Samuel Lone / stine son of William / Rinehart and Elizabeth / July 8 in the year of our / Lord 1875 and J. B. G. / John Brice Gordon Rinehart twin / brother of George was born on July / 8th 1875.
Elizabeth Mary daughter / of William and / Elizabeth his wife was born / Oct the 4 in the year of our Lord 1880"
PAGE 6 - Deaths
"Hiram Porter / departed this life / in the triumph of faith / Nov 3rd, 1850
Margaret Porter wife / of Hiram Porter / died 1891
Blanche / Inghram / Blanche / Inghram daughter / of Jim Inghram
Milton Rinehart / son of William / died Oct 12 1930
Arthur Inghram Porter / departed this life / in the triumph of faith / October 29th 1866
Elizabeth Mary Rinehart / departed this life / in the triumph of faith / December 1st 1884
Arthur Inghram / Porter Rinehart son / of Wm and Elizabeth / Rinehart died Sept / the 11th 1888
William Rinehart son / of Steven died Sept 25 / 1915
William Thomas Albert Rinehart / son of Wm and Elizabeth died Aug 2 1924"
PAGE 7 - Birhs and Deaths
"Franklin Rinehart / Inghram was born / June the 14th 1853
James Bennet Inghram / was born July the 30th 1855
Milton Sebastian Elsworth / Rinhart son of William / and Elizabeth Porter / Rinehart died Oct 12 / 1930
Mary Ralphsnyder Rinehart / wife of Milton died / Nov 25 1930
Dr. George Rinehart / died June 1st 1931 / son of William and / Elizabeth Mary Porter / Rinehart
John Brice Gordon Rinehart / died Sept 19, 1952"
PAGE 8 - Births
"George Samuel Lowenstein / Rinehart and John Brice / Gordon Rinehart sons of / William and Elizabeth / Mary Rinehart were / born July 8th 1875"Collection
Greene County Historical Society CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2011.2Acquisition Method
DigitalCredit Line
Greene County Historical SocietyLexicon
Search Terms
Birth records, Death records, Family Bible--Records, Marriage records, Inghram family, Lantz family, Porter family, Ralphsnyder family, Rinehart family, Weddings, Willison familyOther Names and Numbers
Other Number
GCHS-AN030-0016-0000Relationships
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Provenance Detail
Family Bible Series - Greene County Historical Society CollectionAcquisition Method
DigitalNotes
Source Citation: Hiram Porter family bible records, including William Rinehart and Elizabeth (Porter) Rinehart family bible records; item no. GCHS-AN030-0016-0000, Family Bible Series, Greene County Historical Society Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).
