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Nathan Tanner Porter, pioneer, father of Aaron Benjamin Porter (Note: This history was written by Edna Margaret Porter Hegsted and taken from the Clements’ family web site: /nathan_tanner_porter.html We appreciate their generosity in sharing this history. Two homes built by Nathan Tanner Porter still stand and are easily located in Centerville behind the Home Depot Store by the freeway, 4th South (Porter lane) and 4th West. ?The small one is part of the original Rebecca Cherry Porter home, and the larger one built later for Eliza Ford and her children. See them next time by!! ?The whole area along fourth west behind Target was the original Porter farm, and became Porter Walton nurseries. ? The Centerville cemetery is east on Porter Lane (4th South) up the hill on the right. Nathans grave is marked by a tall white pillar, Rebecca is to the right, and Aaron Benjamin Porter Jr., Rogers Grandfather, and Allanna Nichols and his second wife, Myrtle Parker Smith are just behind Nathan and Rebecca to the east. ?Also the church on about second east and second south was originally built in Nathans time, and he donated the land for that purpose. The middle of the existing church is the original old church with a facelift, but with the typical central door of churches of that time. It of course has been added to substantially, but you can still see the old part of the church. Roger Porter) Nathan Tanner Porter was the son of Sanford and Nancy Warriner Porter, born July 10, 1820 at Corinth, Orange County, Vermont. His father, a sturdy New Englander, was a restless frontiersman, whose blood tingled with the adventure that filled this young growing country with the desire to push on; to expand and to conquer the vast riches of unexplored wilderness to the south and to the west. His mother was a woman with a certain spiritual grace and refinement of manner, a Puritan woman, loyal, earnest and enduring. Before Nathan, who was the fifth child in the family, was a year old, his p