1919-06-Improvement Era—Charles L. Porter

Charles L. Porter

Improvement Era, June 1919, pp. 685-686.

Charles L. Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Porter, born at Porterville, Utah, 1888; died at Camp Dix, New Jersey, October 2, 1918, of influenza. He was married in June, 1918 to Miss Nellie Parker, of Lenark, Idaho, leaving two weeks later for Logan, Utah, where he trained until August, when he went to New Mexico, and from there to Camp Dix, New Jersey. While in the hospital he wrote to the Eastern States Mission and asked for some elders to come and administer to him, having faith that he would he healed, but the president reached there two days after he passed away. Besides his young wife, he leaves his father, mother, two brothers, and five sisters. — Mrs. Joseph Beck, Lanark, Idaho.