Erecting a gravestone for Edwin H. Porter

Edwin H. Porter is the author of The Fall River Tragedy: History of the Borden Murders, the first book ever published on the case.

A crime reporter for the Fall River Daily Globe, he was one of the first on the scene that August 4th morning. He wrote regularly about the case for the Globe and attended the trial of Lizzie Borden in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1893.

Edwin died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-nine in 1904. A daughter, Winifred Alice, died in 1919, at the age of twenty-one.

Father and daughter are buried together in an unmarked grave in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Porter's importance to the case cannot be understated. It is our hope, that with a proper marker on the site of his burial, he will, at last, be immortalized in memory.