This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLIS, PERKINS, GRAHAM, STARK, STAGG. STROTHER, LAWSON, HANKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/821 Message Board Post: From Randy Willis www.randywillis.org randy@randywillis.org I need input/help in locating a Lucinda Willis Perkins and any other Willis/Perkins relationships. Dr. Greene Strother told me that it was family tradition, in has family, that Rev. Joseph Willis first came to Louisiana searching for a Willis Perkins. There is a Willis Perkins listed (household 641) in the 1850 Rapides Parish Census (age 60), born in South Carolina. Other early Perkins, found in 1850 Rapides Parish and born in South Carolina are: Nancy (age 60), Elizabeth (age55), Isaac (age 61), Mary (age 53), Lewis (age 57), Margaret (age 48), Louis (age 24), and Mary Ann (age 18). The point of this is that this is an extremely large number of Perkins (for this period of time located in one parish) from the same state, South Carolina. A Willis Perkins is also listed as a member of Occupy Church (1843) at the same time Rev. Joseph's was pastor there. The early Louisiana Willis/Perkins connections have not been fully explored. Perhaps this will lead to Lucinda Willis Perkins. An early Louisiana Baptist Historian (1810) wrote that the Perkins came to Bayou Chicot, in 1805, with Rev. Joseph Willis. Other Willis/Perkins, 1850 Rapides Parish, relationships are Lemuel Willis (1812) (household 657) married Emeline/Eveline Perkins. The Lucinda West (household 649) (age 19 and married to William West) listed in the 1850 census is probably the daughter of Sally Willis. Sally is listed in the same household (age 48). In 1850 (household 301), Eliza Ann Perkins (age 38), list a 14 year old daughter named Lucinda. In 1859 (household 578), Olive Perkins (age 48), list a 15 year old daughter named Lucinda.