Orville Tracy Porter: Divorce and Marriage

When I posted about O.T. Porter in 2015, we didn't know when this paternal great great grandfather's marriage to Matilda Biddle Porter ended but it appears that my daughter found a notice in an Albany, Oregon, newspaper dated November 2, 1888.

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[The state rights democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1865-1900, November 02, 1888, Image 4]

What drew me to O.T.'s profile today was one of those green leaves that denotes a hint from Ancestry which turned out to be the 1890 marriage certificate for his marriage to Carrie Delph in Sitka, Alaska, on August 21, 1890.

[Alaska State Archives; Juneau, Alaska; Description: Marriage Certificates, 1890 - 1913; Reference Number: VS 2999; Volume: Vol. 1. Ancestry.com. Alaska, Vital Records, 1818 -1963 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.]

Alonzo E. Austin, the Presbyterian minister who performed the ceremony, was the chaplain of the Industrial Training School where Carrie was teaching when she met my great great grandfather.

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