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 PERKINS FAMILY

THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOSHUA FRYE PERKINS AND JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS OF LOUP COUNTY, NEBRASKA 

JACOB PERKINS(SON OF JOSHUA PERKINS AND MARY "POLLY" BLACK PERKINS)WAS BORN IN 1756 IN SOUTH CAROLINA.  HE MARRIED NANCY ANN GRAVES IN 1781 IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 

JACOB AND NANCY ANN PERKINS WERE THE PARENTS OF:

JOSEPH PERKINS B: 1781 D: ABT. 1845 IN NORTH CAROLINA	SARA PERKINS B: 1785 IN TENNESSEE D: BEFORE MARCH 1819	ESTHER PERKINS B: ABT 1792 D: AFT. 1860 IN TENNESSEE
JOSHUA PERKINS B: 1796 IN TENNESSEE D: JUNE 25, 1880	AMOS PERKINS B: 1797 IN TENNESSEE D:  ABT. 1856 IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY	JACOB PERKINS B: 1798 IN TENNESSEE D: AFT. 1870 TENNESSEE
JOHN PERKINS B: 1800 D: BEFORE 1850 IN TENNESSEE	LYDIA PERKINS B: 1803 IN TENNESSEE D: AUGUST 1866 IN TENNESSEE	KIZIAH PERKINS B: BORN 1805 IN TENNESSEE D: AFT 1870 IN TENNESSEE
	SUSANNAH PERKINS B: 1806 IN TENNESSEE D: BEFORE 1870, POSSIBLY FAYETTE CO. ILLINOIS

JACOB AND NANCY ANN GRAVES WERE MARRIED BY JONATHAN MULKEY. THE WILL OF JACOB PERKINS DATED MARCH 22, 1819 LISTS HIS KNOWN CHILDREN AND WIFE. 

JACOB PERKINS FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WITH GENERAL MARION.  HIS WIFE APPLIED FOR A PENSION BUT WAS DENIED SUCH ON THE GROUNDS THAT SHE WAS UNABLE TO PROVE HER MARRIAGE TO JACOB PERKINS, DESPITE SEVERAL DEPOSITIONS THAT WERE TAKEN. 

FROM GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF TENNESSEE WE FIND THE FOLLOWING:

"THE FIRST SETTLEMENT IN JOHNSON COUNTY IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE ABOUT 1770, ON ROANE CREEK, NEAR ITS CONFLUENCE WITH THE WATAUGA, BY A MAN NAMED HONEYCUT.  OTHER SETTLEMENTS WERE MADE SOON AFTER FARTHER  UP ROANE CREEK, AND ON LITTLE DOE AND THE LAUREL.  SHADY WAS ALSO SETTLED AT A COMPARITIVELY EARLY DAY.  AMONG THE PIONEERS WHO HAD FOUND HOMES IN THE TERITORY NOW EMBRACED IN JOHNSON COUNTY PRIOR TO 1778, WERE JOSEPH HOSKINS, GEORGE AND SAMUEL HEATHERBY, THOMAS, JOHN AND CHARLES ASHER.  RICHARD AND BENJAMIN WILSON, HOHN AND HENRY GRIMES, JOSEPH GENTRY, JOHN, JESSE AND JOSIAH HOSKINS AND JOHN HIGGINS.  AT THAT TIME THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THIS SECTION DID NOT EXCEED 150.  AMONG THOSE WHO CAME DURING THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS AND LOCATED IN LITTLE DOE WERE JACOB PERKINS, GEORGE BROWN, GEORGE CROSSWHITE, ED POLLY, JOSEPH TIMPKINS; AND DAVID STOUT.  JACOB PERKINS DIED ABOUT 1820, LEAVING FIVE SONS: JOSEPH, JOSHUA, AMOS, JACOB AND JOHN."

 

JOSEPH PERKINS SON OF JACOB PERKINS AND NANCY ANN GRAVES PERKINS

JOSEPH PERKINS MARRIED ELIZABETH (MNU).  ELIZABETH WAS BORN ABT. 1785 IN TENNESSEE AND DIED AFT. 1860 IN KENTUCKY.  JOSEPH PERKINS DIED ABT. 1845 IN NORTH CAROLINA.

JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH PERKINS WERE THE PARENTS OF:

JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS B: SEPTEMBER 24, 1817, TENNESSEE D: NOVEMBER 29, 1894, LOUP COUNTY, NEBRASKA

HANNAH PERKINS B: 1818 IN TENNESSEE D: AFT 1858

MARTHA PERKINS B: 1820 TENNESSEE D: 1891 NORTH PLATTE, LINCOLN CO. NEBRASKA

AMOS PERKINS SON OF JACOB AND NANCY ANN GRAVES PERKINS

AMOS PERKINS MARRIED NANCY PIERCE BEFORE 1830 IN BURKE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA. NANCY PIERCE WAS BORN ABT. 1809 IN NORTH CAROLINA AND DIED 1888 IN HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA.  AMOS PERKINS DIED ABT. 1856 IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY

AMOS AND NANCY PERKINS WERE THE PARENTS OF:

SARAH A. PERKINS B: ABT 1830  BURKE NORTH CAROLINA D: BEFORE 1864  MONTGOMERY, KENTUCKY	JAMES MONROE PERKINS B: AUGUST 22, 1832, YANCY CO. NORTH CAROLINA D: MAY 29, 1905 ROSEBURG OREGON
ELIZA (LOUISA) PERKINS B: ABT 1835, YANCY CO. NORTH CAROLINA D: AFT 1860  BATH CO. KENTUCKY	LEWIS W. PERKINS B: JANUARY 1, 1842, YANCEY CO. NORTH CAROLINA D: JULY 4, 1912, CASTANA CO. IOWA
JOSHUA FRYE PERKINS B: JULY 18, 1844, MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE D: MARCH 4, 1920, LOUP CO. NEBRASKA	HARDY GRAVES PERKINS B: 1846, LEE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D: FEBRUARY 12, 1862, KENTUCKY

JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS SON OF JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH PERKINS
MARRIED SARAH COOPER SEPTEMBER 17, 1840 IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE.  JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS DIED NOVEMBER 29, 1894  AND IS BURIED IN THE KENT CEMETERY.  SARAH COOPER PERKINS WAS BORN MAY 6, 1818 IN NORTH CAROLINA AND DIED JANUARY 26, 1903, LOUP COUNTY, NEBRASKA, BURIED IN THE KENT CEMETERY.

JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS AND SARAH COOPER PERKINS WERE THE PARENTS OF:

HANNAH AMANDA B: MARCH 17, 1845, WASHINGTON CO. TENNESSEE D: JANUARY 19, 1903 LOUP CO. NEBRASKA	MARY PAULINA B: 1847 IN LETCHER CO. KENTUCKY D: AFTER 1867 ESTILL CO. KENTUCKY
HIGHLY: B: JULY 17, 1850 LETCHER CO. KENTUCKY D: JULY 21, 1934 LOUP CO. NEBRASKA	NANCY: B: DECEMBER 31, 1852 LETCHER CO. D: MARCH 1853 LETCHER CO. KENTUCKY
JOHN AMOS: B:JUNE 23, 1856 LETCHER CO.KENTUCKY D: OCTOBER, 1932 ROY, PIERCE CO.WASHINGTON	SARAH ELIZABETH  B:DECEMBER 25, 1859 LETCHER CO. KENTUCKY D: NAT 13M 1936 SPOKANE, SPOKANE CO. WASHINGTON
WILLIAM H. PERKINS B:APRIL 23, 1861 HARLAN CO.KENTUCKY D:FEBRUARY 16, 1931 ROY, PIERCE CO. WASHINGTON

 

JOSHUA CARTER PERKINS AND JOSHUA FRYE PERKINS WERE NOT ONLY FATHER IN LAW AND SON IN LAW BUT ALSO COUSINS.



JOSHUA FRYE PERKINS AND HIGHLY PERKINS WERE MARRIED DECEMBER 27, 1867 IN FAYETTE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BY TENNESSEE NAVE.  THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM JOSHUA FRYE'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION PAPERS.

CHILDREN OF JOSHUA FRYE PERKINS AND HIGHLY PERKINS:

DAISY FAYE B: AUG 22,1916 LOUP CO. NE D: SEPT. 21, 1997	HAROLD B:APR 18,1918 LOUP CO. NE D:JULY 24, 2000	JOSHUA B:JUNE 21, 1919 LOUP CO. NE D:MAR 23, 2003	WILLIAM B:DEC 18, 1920 LOUP CO. NE D:MAY 11, 1998
ROBERT B:DEC 18,1921 LOUP CO. NE D:JAN 28, 1965	EDITH FERN B: JULY, 23, 1923 LOUP CO. NE D: SEPT. 15, 2009	PERRY B:1925 LOUP CO. NE D:1925	VIRGINIA LEE B: SEPT 15, 1926 LOUP CO. NE D: NOV 25, 1986
EULA B:JUNE 13, 1928 LOUP CO. NE D:SEPT 18, 1997	LOYD B:JULY 23, 1931 LOUP CO. NE D:SEPT 16, 1990	RICHARD ARLEN B: MAR 13, 1933 LOUP CO. NE D:1934	SHIRLEY B:MAY 15, 1935 LOUP CO. NE D:OCT 31, 2000
CAROLE B: FEB. 1937 LOUP CO. NE	JERRY B:APR 21, 1938 LOUP CO. NE D:AUG 2, 1963	BRUCE B:OCT 25, 1941 LOUP CO. NE D:AUG 2, 1963

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