Eighth Generation


1994. Eliza Jane Porter was born on 6 December 1842 in Bloomfield, Wisconsin (Walworth). She died after 7 June 1901 at the age of 58. She was 1/128 Wampanoag/Narragansett Indian from father. Lived in Denmark, Iowa in 1882. Obituaries in 1887 and 1901 say she lived in
Kansas. History of Walworth County says Oneida, Kansas but by 1912 was in San
Diego, CA.

Eliza Jane Porter and Charles Guthrie Stevenson were married. Charles Guthrie Stevenson was born on 16 March 1843. He died after 7 February 1935 at the age of 91 in Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles). He was a Musician/Poet. I have several letters written by Charles in his later years which tell about
how he road with President Lincoln and sang at his funeral.