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From: "Sidney G. Dreese" <>
Subject: Re: [PASNYDER-L] PORT ANN
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:28:24 -0400
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I do not know if there was a blood relationship -- Sidney



At 07:39 AM 6/1/01 -0400, wrote:
>Were Sara Ann Middleswarth and Daniel Port related? What is the
connection between "Port" and "Ann" to name a village Port Ann?
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>Joyce
>"Sidney G. Dreese" <> wrote:
>> Hi -- from the book, The Story of Snyder County, by Dr. George F.
>Dunkleberger is this paragraph:
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>"PORT ANN is a small village, located in Adams Township, about three and
>one-half miles east of Troxelville on the road to Penns Creek. The village
>was named after Sara Ann Middleswarth (1824-1895), a woman of great
>prominence and influence in the community. She was left a widow in 1861,
>and in the face of great odds, managed to rear very successfully her family
>of twelve children. The term "Port" came from the family name of another
>well-known resident of that community by the name of Daniel Port who
>followed the occupation of stone mason. The large stone house at the east
>end of the village is one of a number of houses built by this man."
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>Sidney
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