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PORTER, Roland
1896 - 1980 (83 years) 
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Name PORTER, Roland Birth 2 Sep 1896 Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States 
Gender Male WAC 5 Jun 1918 MANTI _TAG Reviewed on FS Death 17 Mar 1980 Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Burial 22 Mar 1980 Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States Headstones 
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Father PORTER, Jared Riley , b. 8 Oct 1848, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United Statesd. 21 Mar 1938, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States (Age 89 years) Mother GRIFFIN, Alice Lovina , b. 21 Mar 1856, Sugarhouse, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Sugarhouse, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 26 Dec 1936, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States (Age 80 years) Marriage 1 Jan 1872 Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States Family ID F2323 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family HAWS, Mina H. , b. 15 May 1897, Boulder, Garfield, Utah, United States Boulder, Garfield, Utah, United Statesd. 13 Mar 1989, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States (Age 91 years) Marriage 14 Sep 1917 Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States 
Children4 sons and 4 daughters Family ID F2326 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Roland Porter was born the last of thirteen children, on September 2, 1896 in Escalante, Utah, to Jared Riley Porter and Alice Lovina Griffin Porter.
Roland’s father Jared Riley was a blacksmith and in the spring of 1900, he was making preparations to move his equipment to Idaho. Roland was only three years old at this time. His father had taken some bench bolts out of a large vice to prepare to load it in a wagon. Roland reached up and pulled the vice off the bench, causing it to fall and land on his right leg, severely crushing his knee. Roland lay flat on his back over a long period of time with this injury. He believed if his sisters hadn’t helped his mother nurse him back to health by taking him out in the sunshine, he would probably have died. He remembers his older brother Jode was on a mission for the church at this time.
Several years later when Roland was a teenager, he was thrown from a horse and his right leg was caught in the stirrup breaking his leg again. This made him unable to use his leg in a normal manner and left him with a handicap while participating in sports which he loved so much. Fortunately, he was still able to pitch in the softball games and this made him very happy and he was very good at it.
Roland enjoyed growing up in Escalante and had many friends. Some of his best friends were his Griffin cousins; Earnest, Ray and Theron. He had a close relationship with his brothers and they always enjoyed each other so much since they all had a terrific senses of humor. They were always full of good jokes. Roland was always an obedient boy and was loved and respected by all who knew him.
He graduated from school in Escalante then spent two years in Cedar City, Utah at the Branch Agriculture College obtaining teaching skills which he used in his profession as a teacher.
During one of Roland’s trip to the nearby town of Boulder, Utah to play ball with the boys from Escalante, he saw Mina Haws. Some of the boys were staying at Mina’s home on the trip. The next day Roland saw Mina riding up the road on a black horse and he inquired more about her. They ended up meeting as teenagers on the steps of the old elementary school house. This meeting blossomed into a beautiful and long lasting relationship and they were eventually married in Panguitch, Utah on September 14, 1917, by Wilford Pendleton. A few months later on June 5, 1918 Roland and Mina traveled to Manti, Utah where their marriage was solemnized in the Manti Temple.
Their first home was a little house located on the same lot where they ended up living and raising their family. Rol enjoyed working and worked hard, even though his leg did not work properly. During the early years he worked for his father who operated a sawmill up Main Canyon. The family spent their summers up the canyon at the mill and the winters back in town.
Nine months after they were married, their first daughter, Velma, was born June 11, 1918, just a few days after their trip to Manti, with Mary Alice Shurtz as the midwife.
Marie, their second daughter, was born July 28, 1919 in Escalante and the following September they moved to Boulder where Rol taught his first year of school. They moved back to Escalante the next year and he taught there. The following year the people of Boulder persuaded him to move back and teach for a few more years. While there they lived at the old ranger station and also at Mina’s father’s old place.
Roland Haws, their first son, was born December 26, 1921 in Escalante. Their second son, Merrial, was born August 28, 1925 during a bad whooping cough epidemic. He became very ill and they felt the importance of naming and blessing him quickly in case he did not survive but fortunately he endured the epidemic.
The family moved back to Escalante where Rol taught school once again. Vergean, was born November 23, 1926 and two years later, Maxine was born September 4, 1928.
The family lived in the grainery on their lot while their new house was being built. It had two rooms and was built by Art McInelley.
On January 12, 1933, Bobby Lynn was born with Susan Heaps as the midwife. Two other babies were born this same day keeping Susan busy trailing through the deep snow in Escalante. She was paid well for her efforts with a sack of flour.
Rol taught in the winter and worked at the sawmill in the summer. Every few years he would spend his summer in Salt Lake City getting more education.
In 1939, Rol purchased the ranch of I.J. Riddle which was five miles from town. The first few years on this ranch were the best years of their life. However, there was a problem getting water to the land and with the diminishing water supply the land was impossible to cultivate so in 1950, the ranch was sold to Rex Whitaker.
Yoland was born March 13, 1942 to complete their large family of eight children. Rol and Mina also helped raise several homeless children and they participated in the Indian placement program parenting Maria Cooley as one of their Navajo foster children.
Rol taught school for forty-four years and was a principal both in Boulder and Escalante. At the time he retired, he was employed as the principal in Escalante.
Rol enjoyed his retirement and slowed down a bit in 1975 when his right leg had to be amputated after a lingering infection. During this time in his life he appreciated even more so, the love and devotion of his good wife.
Rol and Mina were both loved and respected by their children. This lovely couple have always been very active in the Church and have accepted any call they have been given. They have both been compassionate and concerned for the welfare of others. Roland passed away March 17, 1980.
(Written by Bobby L. Porter)
- Roland Porter was born the last of thirteen children, on September 2, 1896 in Escalante, Utah, to Jared Riley Porter and Alice Lovina Griffin Porter.
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