FOURTH GENERATION


145. Martha M. Porter was born in 1835 in Swannanoa, NC. She died about 1880.

She was married to Richard J. Fortune (son of Fletcher Fortune and Virginia Jane Allison) on Sep 28 1852. Richard J. Fortune was born on Feb 28 1828 in McDowell (Burke) County. He appeared on the census in 1860 in Buncombe County, NC. He died on Mar 26 1863. He was buried in Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery, Buncombe County, NC. Martha M. Porter and Richard J. Fortune had the following children:

child365 i. Thomas Fortune was born about 1853.
child366 ii. William Fortune.

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