(Byron and Elizabeth Porter were the great-great-grandparents
of Professor Meda Chesney-Lind)

After being wounded at Fredericksburg in 1964, Byron Porter was mustered out of the Army and soon joined the Bureua of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freeman's Bureau. One of his early duties was to escort a group of teachers who had come west to Texas, among them Lizzie Clay, then about age 18. One thing, apparently, led to another.