Robert Newton Turpin arrived in Nebraska in April 1878 and settled in what is now Rock County, Nebraska. However one of his daughters, Mary Amanda Turpin Porter, arrived earlier! Known as Amanda, she was born on 14 Oct 1855 while the Turpins were still in McLean County, Illinois.1
Amanda was the sixth child. According to the marriage records, she married 25 October 1871 in Greene County, Iowa “on consent of Mary's mother” to William Cassius Porter.2 The Porter had eight children: Charles A. Porter, Josephine Amanda Porter Mahoney, Leona A. Porter Howard, Frederick A. Porter, Louisa I. Porter Converse, Mary E. Porter Holmes, William E. Porter, and Daniel O. Porter.3
