Katherine Anne Porter to American frontiersman Daniel Boone and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter), her father's second cousin. In 1892, when Porter was two years old, her mother died two months after giving birth to her last child. Porter's father took his four surviving children (an older brother had died in infancy) to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Kyle, Texas. The depth of her grandmother's influence can be inferred from Porter's later adoption of her name. Her grandmother died while taking eleven-year-old Callie to visit relatives in Marfa, Texas. After her grandmother's death, the
William Field Porter England). He abandoned the settlement in 1840. Although Porter’s tenure in Port Lincoln only lasted 18 months, he had, nevertheless, been appointed the first Magistrate of the Eyre Peninsula and his family left its name at 'Porter Bay'. In May 1841, Porter arrived in [[Auckland]], New Zealand. He built a house and store on Auckland's waterfront and commenced trading from there with stock brought on the "Porter". He also invested in land in and around Auckland and bought interests in land claims from before 1840. Later he developed a farm at [[Kohimarama]]. In 1841 Governor [[William Hobson|Willam Hobson]] appointed Porter