It may not be the same Ephraim, however if it's the Ephraim that is the son of Ute & Sarah Gant Perkins....he would have served with the TN Militia...didn't move to IL until about 1826. This is all I have on him.... "There are conflicting birth dates for Ephraim. Arthur Perkins and Mel Wakefield both have it as February 25, 1791. Anna Weir Colclasure, his great granddaughter has it as May 19, 1792. Census records show him to be 58 years old in 1850, so we know he was born in 1791/1792. Ephraim is believed to have married Eda Job and is shown in the 1850 census for Hancock County, Illinois. He died March 23, 1856 in Pilot Grove Township, Illinois. (Perkins Posterity, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 2000) Ephraim was the first Perkins to locate in Hancock County, Illinois. He then brought his father and mother to what later became Fountain Green Township. Soon the other families followed, coming up from Tennessee and southern Illinois, to establish Perkins Settlement on Crooked Creek." > Can anyone out there tell me about this fella? > Ephraim Perkins who served in the war of 1812 from the Illinois and Missouri > Mounted ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI MILITIA > > thanks in advance and please respond to the list with this one as my brother > may be watchig :o)