This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perkins, Casey, Barker, Armstrong, Stubblefield, Lieurance, Herring, Webb, Jones, Barber, Hargrove Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/og.2ADI/109 Message Board Post: Interested in any info re marriage of Elizabeth Purkens to Nathaniel Armstrong in Randolph County July 1811. She may have been widow of Solomon Perkins (he's my prime suspect at this point), near Shawnee Town, possibly emigrated from Livingston co. KY. Left KY for IL 1808. Four sons by first husband Perkins, all born in KY: Isaac born 1795, Daniel Reese born 1797, Elisha born 1799 and Solomon born 1801. Also three daughters (probably all born in KY too, est. 1803, 1805 and 1807), one married Joel Hargrove, another married Solomon Casey (son of Isaac Casey). Isaac Perkins married Jane Barker, son of Lewis Barker who operated a ferry at Cave-in-Rock IL across the Ohio River. Isaac Casey's father was Randolph Casey; supposedly his mother was a Perkins in South Carolina (unconfirmed). A Barker offspring also married a Casey offspring, so Barkers, Caseys and Perkinses seem closely allied. Son Daniel Reese Perkins married (1) Rachel Herring, (2) Frances Webb, (3) Evalina Jones. Son Solomon married Mary (Polly) Ogle in 1819. Son Elisha married Susannah Barber. Elisha may have also had a first wife named Casey, as he is closely associated with Caseys throughout his lifetime and named some of his children "Casey" names such as Zedoc and Green. Solomon Perkins (the son) became the first sheriff of Des Moines county Iowa (at Burlington) and was one of the first two sheriffs in the entire state, having gone there in 1833 before it was open for settlement. Both Solomon and Isaac served in the Black Hawk War from Tazewell county; Isaac was killed but Solomon came back OK. There is a monument in the state of IL erected around 1900 that commemorates the Battle of Stillman's Run where Isaac Perkins and ten or so others were killed in 1832. Abraham Lincoln was the militia captain in charge of the burial detail. Elizabeth Purkens and Nathaniel Armstrong had at least one son, a John Armstrong, who is mentioned as being a half-brother to the Perkins brothers in a letter to an IL newspaper in Warren county by a Perkins descendant in 1885. Lewis Barker came from Livingston county KY and owned land in Robertson county TN. Caseys came from SC via TN. Descendants lived in Franklin co., Tazewell co. and Warren co. IL and then migrated to Iowa (Warren Co. & Pottawattamie Co.) and later to Kansas and Nebraska. Later descendants married Lieurances (originally from Ashe County NC, then to Clinton Co. OH in 1806 and then to Warren County IL in 1830s) quite a bit. Lieurances (Lowrances) and Perkinses may have known each other in NC in 1700s. Solomon Perkins (Sr.) registered for squatters' rights for 320 acres of land at Cave-in-Rock in 1807 and was granted permission to remain on the land. His name does not appear on the report of squatters granted land in 1814 approved by Congress -- perhaps he was killed by Indians before summer of 1811? These Perkinses may have emigrated from the Shenandoah Valley of VA near Hopewell Meeting. A Joseph Perkins turns up later as the first superintendent of the Harper's Ferry federal armory nearby in 1810, his successor was a Stubblefield. Four Perkins siblings intermarried with four Stubblefield siblings in early Illinois and came from NC -- perhaps cousins? Elisha Perkins (descended from the Richard Perkins line of Spesutie Island, MD) is also associated with Hopewell Friends Meeting in Winchester, VA at this time (mid-1700s). This is the Elisha who had the marital problems with Margery. Any info appreciated.