Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Carlisle Patterson PORTER
The Washington Post May 22, 1914
Porter Funeral Tomorrow
Will Rest at Arlington Beside His Military Forefathers
The funeral of Colonel Carlisle Patterson Porter, United States Marine Corps, retired, who died on Wednesday in the Naval Hospital in Washington will be held tomorrow at St. John's Church, Lafayette Square at 10 o'clock. The funeral will be a military one. The Rev. Roland Cotton Smith will officiate at the church and at Arlington National Cemetery where interment will take place.
In Arlington Cemetery also is buried Colonel Porter's father, Admiral Porter of Civil War fame, his grave being in front of the mansion near the Sheridan tomb. The grave of Colonel Porter's grandfather, Commodore Porter, of the War of 1812 is at Chester, Pennsylvania.
May 22, 1914.
Lieutenant Colonel Carlisle Patterson Porter, 67 years old, died on Wednesday in the Naval Hospital in Washington after a years illness. Lieutenant Colonel Porter was born in Washington and was the son of Admiral David Dixon Porter of Civil War fame and Georgia Anne Patterson also of a prominent Naval family. His grandfather was Commodore David Porter who served with distinction in the War of 1812.
Lieutenant Colonel Porter served as an Acting Midshipman from 1861 until 1864 and was in the battle of Fort Fisher. He was made a Second Lieutenant of the Marine Corps in 1866, a Lieutenant Colonel in 1899 and retired in the same year. He is survived by his widow, a son, Major David D. Porter, United States Marine Corps, now stationed at Philadelphia and a daughter Mrs. J.S. Simmons of Washington.
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