Annie, I don't know which state my John S. Perkins was born, but the census is a very good idea. The first location I have for John S. Perkins (1833-1909) is when he was married November 14, 1855 in Putnam Count, Indiana. So I guess I should check 1850 Federal census for Indiana. John would have been 11 years old. The information I have for John S. Perkins, wife Mary Ellen Kyle and children, Mary Ellen, Reuben, William Hardrick, Susan F., and Cora, comes from an old family bible. Marie