Hi Chris and all saw you were from UK so....... our family story is that John James PERKINS imm from N Ireland abt 1870's to NYC, NY. He is said to be descended from a line of John James', possibly 5-6 long. His son was a John James and so was his grandson (my Uncle) If anyone stumbles upon any John James PERKINS with or without the long line of ancestral like named fathers, PLEASE drop me a line. I am sifting and resifting the usual sources for immigrant data so don't tell me that i might as well be looking for rain tomorrow (46th day no precip) as finding anything from such a broad posting (lol) I just thought I's ask. Bill Perkins of the Perkins Trucking PERKINS', NY, NY

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This poem was sent to me and I thought I would pass it on. It is so true about genealogy. STRANGERS IN THE BOX (Author Unknown) Come, look with me inside this drawer, In this box I've often seen, At the pictures, black and white, Faces proud, still, and serene. I wish I knew the people, These strangers in the box, Their names and all their memories, Are lost among my socks. I wonder what their lives were like, How did they spend their days? What about their special times? I'll never know their ways. If only someone had taken time, To tell, who, what, where, and when, These faces of my heritage, Would come to life again. Could this become the fate, Of the pictures we take today? The faces and the memories, Someday to be passed away? Take time to save your stories, Seize the opportunity when it knocks, Or someday you and yours, Could be strangers in the box. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Denton, Texas Johnnie Perkins Decatur ... Johnnie Gordon Perkins, 83, of Decatur died Friday, Jan. 21, 2000, in Decatur. He was born Nov. 6, 1916, in Alvord. He married Vernell Phillips on April 15, 1934, in Waurika, Okla. He was a retired dairy farmer. He was a charter member of the Fundamental Baptist Church of Decatur. Service will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 24, at Coker Funeral Home Chapel in Decatur with Wilbur Simmons officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery in Decatur. Pallbearers will be Stephen Perkins, Daniel Perkins, John Perkins, Don Perkins, Larry Phillips and Ken Dickson. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today, Jan. 23, at the funeral home. Survivors include his wife of Decatur; two sons, Max Perkins of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Garry Perkins of Decatur; one brother, Leon Perkins of Decatur; one sister, Billie Mae Mormon of Chicago, Ill.; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara A. Brenner To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:00 AM Subject: William Perkins b Ky I am looking for information on William Perkins b in Ky. He married Virginia Allen also b Ky. They had a daughter Virginia b IL. She married Frank Hintz b Germany. Any info would be appreciated.

Hi, on a recent visit to the Library in Tavistock I found this Information in the Local History Dept. Buried in St Eustachius Church Yard Tavistock. Perkins William 54 322014E Stoke Damerall 11 Feb 1831 " Catherine 51 322267E Stoke Damerell 12 April 1833 " Anna (inf) 330881E West Street 15 Aug 1842 " Grace 28 331454C Union House 13 Dec 1847 " Henry (inf) Union House 13 Dec 1847 " William 68 331802C " " 30 Nov 1850 " Mary 32 340239 Gulworthy Cott 23 Sept 1858 " Ellen (inf) 340244C " " 05 Oct 1858 " John 83 340399C Stiles Week 06 Apl 1860 " Betsy 55 350029C Exeter St 24 Feb 1864 " Richard 50 350406C Union House 24 Mar 1867 " Fanny 62 350549C Exeter St 10 Jan 1869 " Elizabeth Ann 12 350559C Mill Hill 04 Feb 1869 " William 3 350642C Union House 07 Jan 1870 " William 3 351012C " " 23 Apr 1874 Baptism Meavey Devon John Perkins 22 May 1810 Henry Richard Perkins (1813-1901) entry 508 Marriage's Meavey Perkins James 23 Oct 1809 Perkins Richard 20 April 1852 Burial Meavey Perkins Mary Entry 440 (1813-1978) Tavistock War Memorial WWII Perkins F W I do not have any more information other than I have placed here, I hope it will help someone regards Chris and Jackie Perkins Devon England http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/picnicpark/meadowbank/26/index.htm

Hi all, i'm researching the family of William Perkins, my ggg grandfather. He married a Emma Edwards. No details on marriage or death or birth for either of these. I know they had a child Elizabeth Perkins, my gg grandmother. She was born 1850 , Oxfordshire, England and died 1939, Geelong, Australia. She married in 1870, Jabez Ash. Jabez was born 1848 Geelong, Australia and died 1925, Leopold, Australia. If anyone has any information that they think might help, I look forward to hearing from you, Ainslee ------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] http://home.pacific.net.au/~ainsleerh/ ICQ - 44241689 IRC - irc.oz.org - Ainslee

Genealogical researchers will be familiar with the sort of "legend" and conflicting accounts which are involved with the tune "Taps." The story posted on this list was a moving account, and if it were accurate would require no comment from me. But the story has no support in history, although many have diligently searched for the supposed characters. Here is a URL for the best discussion I have found on the Web. I suggest reading the *whole* thing, if you are interested at all. TAPS: Story by Kathryn Shenkle, a historian with Arlington National Cemetery. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/taps.htm (Summary) The 132-year-old bugle call was revised from an existing bugle call by Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who commanded the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, during the American Civil War. (General Butterfield was a Medal of Honor winner, and was assisted in his revision by a bugler, Oliver W. Norton.) Darrell A. Martin [email protected] descendant of soldiers of: Pequot War King Philip's War various French and Indian Wars (1 KIA) Revolutionary War American Civil War World War II and former Sergeant, US Army Vietnam, 1970-71

Thought some of you might find this interesting. It comes from a Civil War newsletter. Bill *********************** From: QNavyWife thought I'd share this with you...... Robin "Like so many times before, as I watched the playing of "Taps" at the Norfolk, VA, memorial service for the navy members killed on the USS Cole, I was emotionally stirred. If you have experienced similar emotional feeling, below is the story of how "Taps" came to be." "We have all heard the haunting song, "Taps." It's the song that gives us that lump in our throats and usually creates tears in our eyes But do you know the story behind the song? If not, I think you will be pleased to find out about its humble beginnings. Reportedly, it all began in 1862 during the Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison's Landing in Virginia. The Confederate Army was on the other side of the narrow strip of land. During the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moans of a soldier who lay severely wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the Captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention. Crawling on his stomach through the gunfire, the Captain reached the stricken soldier and began pulling him toward his encampment. When the Captain finally reached his own lines, he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead. The Captain lit a lantern and suddenly caught his breath and went numb with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It was his own son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out. Without telling his father, the boy enlisted in the Confederate Army. The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial despite his enemy status. His request was only partially granted. The Captain had asked if he could have a group of Army band members play a funeral dirge for his son at the funeral. The request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate. But, out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician. The Captain chose a bugler. He asked the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of the dead youth's uniform. This wish was granted. The haunting melody we now know as "Taps" used at military funerals, was born. Day is done Gone the sun From the Lakes From the hills From the sky. All is well, Safely rest. God is nigh. Fading light Dims the sight And a star Gems the sky, Gleaming bright From afar, Drawing nigh, Falls the night. Thanks and praise, For our days, Neath the sun, Neath the stars, As we go, This we know, God is nigh. I, too, have felt chills while listening to "Taps" but I have never seen all the words to the song until now. I didn't even know there was more than one verse. I also never knew the story behind the song and I didn't know if you had either so I thought I'd pass it along. I now have an even deeper respect for the song than I did before. *************

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6DB8648EFAD687F52DDDA025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Found oodles of my surnames here. Hope I'm not breakaing any rules by pasing it > on! > > Received the following information on another list. > For those looking for relatives in War of 1812 - > on this database at SierraHome, available free for a limited time: > > http://www.sierrahome.com/familytree/records/ > > --------------6DB8648EFAD687F52DDDA025 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11759; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:01:14 -0800 (PST) From: [email protected] Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e9TJ0e222186; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:00:40 -0800 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:00:40 -0800 Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: LOVE-D Digest V00 #157 X-Loop: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/volume00/157 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain LOVE-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 157 Today's Topics: #1 [LOVE-L] Re: LOVE/Roane [[email protected]] #2 [LOVE-L] War of 1812 Search [[email protected]] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from LOVE-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:46:44 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [LOVE-L] Re: LOVE/Roane Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/28/2000 11:09:40 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Below is data extracted from: General Thomas Love of Western North Carolina and Western Tennessee (Robert A. Love,2nd Ed.) >> Bill & Mary, I've seen this before, I too have a copy. The writer/arthor is "Cuzin Robert" of the Robert Love/Violet Wilson Line if I remember correctly, AND he was coeditor & publisher of the Love Quarterlies. I respect his research greatly, but I must say I find all of Mary's research evidence more compelling than the one reference to Mrs. Russell's Bible notations that could have been made by who knows who and who knows when after the facts. Especially in light of the fact that one of Mrs. Russell's relations has apparently said that she was [again I think remember correctly] in error and

This comes from Our Heritage, The Garden Peninsula, Delta County, Michigan 1840-1890 Published by The Garden Peninsula Historical Society 1982 First Edition Page 21, Sack Bay by Grace Stern 4th paragraph Samuel Elliott's brother, Stephen also arrived here at Sack Bay and in 1861 purchased the property on which the Village of Sack Bay was situated. The property was owned by the widow of Wright Perkins who had served in the War of 1812. For his service, Private Perkin's [sic] widow was granted this property. Apparently a portion of this land acquired by Stephen Elliott was sold the same year -- 1861 to Abraham Brown. Abraham Brown sold it in 1863 to Mrs. Aaron (Belsora) Olmsted. On April 3, 1877 this property was secured by the Board of Health of Sack Bay Township from the heirs of Mrs. Olmsted and was designated as the Sack Bay Cemetery. There were burials at this site in the early 1850's. Indians as well as white people were buried there. The Board of Health advertised for people to submit bids who were interested in clearing the graveyard and constructing a fence to enclose the cemetery. William Wilson was the man who contracted to build the fence which endured for 60 years. The wooden fence was replaced with wire in 1937 and two years later the cemetery was enlarged. The bold print added to this transcription to help locate the Perkins name. I have this book in my possession. Marie Kamerer [email protected]

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In a message dated 10/28/2000 11:09:40 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Below is data extracted from: General Thomas Love of Western North Carolina and Western Tennessee (Robert A. Love,2nd Ed.) >> Bill & Mary, I've seen this before, I too have a copy. The writer/arthor is "Cuzin Robert" of the Robert Love/Violet Wilson Line if I remember correctly, AND he was coeditor & publisher of the Love Quarterlies. I respect his research greatly, but I must say I find all of Mary's research evidence more compelling than the one reference to Mrs. Russell's Bible notations that could have been made by who knows who and who knows when after the facts. Especially in light of the fact that one of Mrs. Russell's relations has apparently said that she was [again I think remember correctly] in error and

>From Boston Transcipt dated 8/31/1937: Ephraim (2) Smith was born in Boxford, Oct. 29, 1663; married Mary Ramsdell Sept. 6, 1694. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Perkins) Ramsdell and granddaughter of Rev. William and Elizabeth (wooten) Perkins. She was born Jan. 27, 1674.

Jonathan Perkins b Dec.15,1653 d Nov.9,1718 New Haven,Ct m Mary Elcock June 14,1682 Mary b July 22,1661 New Haven,Ct d Nov.9,1718 daughter of Anthony Elcock Children: Seth Perkins b Sept.4,1685 Anne Perkins b Nov.9,1690 m Ebenezer Hitchcock Jonathan Perkins b May 6,1694 d before 1730 Sarah Perkins b Dec.6,1696 m John Sperry Thomas Perkins b Aug.11,1699 Eleanor Perkins b March 7,1701/2 m Abraham Dickerman

Hello Perkins Does anyone have more information on either of these two people? Jonathan PERKINS married Mary Elcock 14 June 1682 New Haven, Conn. My ggg grandfather was from that area and I have nothing to go on other than his name. Please contact me if you know more about Mary or Jonathan. Thank you! Jaci Perkins Hoefer e-mail: [email protected]

American Marriages Before 1699 BARTLETT, Mehitable Perkins, Joseph December 1672 Simsbury, Conn. BEAMSLEY, Hannah Perkins, Abraham 16 October 1661 Boston, Mass. CLARKE, Elizabeth Perkins, William 24 October 1669 Topsfield, Mass. COX, Leah Perkins, James 13 December 1681 Hampton, N.H. ELCOCK, Mary Perkins, Jonathan 14 June 1682 New Haven, Conn. GRUBB, Henry Perkins, Mary 24 March 1683 Burlington, N.J. HUSSEY, John Perkins, Rebecca 21 September 1659 Hampton, N.H. FARLAND, Mary Perkins, MackJohn 11 December 1697 PERKINS, John Mackfarland, Mary 11 December 1697 Boston, Mass. PERKINS, Jonathan Elcock, Mary 14 June 1682 New Haven, Conn. PERKINS, Joseph Bartlett, Mehitable December 1672 Simsbury, Conn. PERKINS, Mary Grubb, Henery 24 March 1683 Burlington, N.J. PERKINS, Thomas Woodman, Remember 26 July 1694 Boston, Mass. PERKINS, William, Rev. Wooton, Elizabeth 30 August 1636 Roxbury, Mass. PERKINS, Sarah Bradstreet, John 11 June 1677 Topsfield, Mass.

I am posting this to several lists in my last hopes of finding anything on this POPHAM family . If you get this more than once (and I am sure you will) I do apologize 1 NATHAN POPHAM 1812 - 1843 b: Abt. 1812 d: Abt. 1843 ... 2 TRAVIS POPHAM 1836 - b: Aft. 1836 ... 2 JAMES POPHAM 1836 - b: Aft. 1836 ... 2 William James (Gilson) Popham, (Rev.) 1835 - 1872 b: 1835 in Poss. England or Virgina d: 1872 in CHERRY MOUND, SHERMAN, GRAYSON CO, TEX (Blair Cem in Fannin Co.) Occupation: Circuit Preacher ....... +Susannah E. Williams 1838 - 1901 b: 1838 in Pittsylvania Co., VA m: October 15, 1864 in GRAYSON CO, TEXAS d: 1901 in FORT WORTH, TARRANT CO, TEX or (Blair Cem. in Fannin Co.) Father: Benjamin Franklin Williams Mother: Anna Clement Perkins ......... 3 Sarah "Sallie" Virginia Popham 1871 - 1947 b: February 27, 1871 in GORDONVILLE, GRAYSON CO., TEXAS d: October 26, 1947 in KINGSVILLE, KLEBERG CO., TEXAS ............. +HAWKINS MAY GIBSON 1871 - 1946 b: May 10, 1871 in DALLAS CO.,TEXAS m: June 05, 1892 in GORDONVILLE, GRAYSON CO., TEXAS d: January 14, 1946 in DAMON, BRAZORIA CO., TEXAS Father: JAMES HAWKINS GIBSON Mother: MARY (POLLY) OVERSHINER Nathan could be Jonathan, Nathaniel, Nat, John or anything that comes from those names. Travis and James may have been 1/2 brothers to my Great grandfather William James Gilson POPHAM. The two middle names are a puzzle also, but my Mothers swears up and down that it is correct. I have wondered if Gilson was a maiden name for his Mother, as it is some times. It is William Popham for sure. Do not have a clue to their Mother or mothers. After Nathan died it is believed that the boys were orphaned and never adopted. I have much on the Williams family and back. No one in our family even knew my grandmother Sallie's name was really Sarah. Plus this cemetery is right on the county line of Grayson Co and Fannin Co, Texas and both on the state line bordering Okla. William Popham was know as that "Englishman". But other info is that his father came to Texas with him, then went back to Virginia/West Virginia area. Thanks in advance, Margie in Texas

Hi guys, I too am having a hard time finding WWI records for my Uncle Harry Perkins. We think he enlisted in northern California (maybe he was drafted?)in 1916 or 1917. Anyway my grandfather never heard from him again. We have always felt that he was killed perhaps in France but never really knew. That is my block wall. Could any of you help me? Where can I look. Thanks for your help. Nancy Albuquerque NM

Hi, everybody: I just got a look at the Perkins website. Quite impressive! I was especially fascinated by the Hillmorton Parish information and pictures. Please take the following in that light, keeping in mind that I *am* a picky person at times. There is a picture of the "Record of the Marriage of John Perkins & Judith Gater, Registered at the Hilmorton Parish Warwickshire England". The first line of the transcription says, Anno Boinno: 1608 I believe that the actual transcription should be Anno Domino: 1608 The initial letter is an old-style capital D, not a B, and this is fairly clear even in the small GIF picture. The remaining letters seem better taken as "omino" than as "oinno", too, although less certainly. Drat fancy calligraphy and, paradoxically, its sometimes casual treatment of minims, although it might be a lot clearer in the original. The phrase "Anno Domino" (Year of Our Lord) makes sense while "Anno Boinno" does not, as far as I know, mean anything. Please don't let this constructive criticism diminish my appreciation for the site. I've just begun to explore it, really. Darrell Darrell A. Martin no longer proud to have been a Vermonter but still very proud of my Vermont roots currently in exile in Addison, Illinois [email protected]