Dear
Sherry,
Your
request for the William Perry family, in reference to a daughter, Hattie, turned into quite a search. She was
not listed with her parents in 1870, so I looked at 1880 and found her as a 2
year old, which means she was born about 1878, not 1868. I also found that her
mother was not listed in the 1880, so I did a search of the cemetery records,
and the Perry family histories and found quite a bit of information about the
family.
If
Hattie is your G-grandmother, she
would have had to have a baby by 1892, because she died, unmarried, at age 16 in
1893. Is this still a possibility?
There is
no Jennette in the William Perry
family, but there is a Jennette in
the James & Constance Perry family. She is 17 in the 1870 census (b. 1853).
I am uncertain what connection is between William C. and James Perry; they could
be uncle and nephew, or brothers at opposite ends of their family. Anyway, in
the cemetery book, Gilbrids Cemetery, Elkhorn township, she is listed as Jane
Lee (or Jeanette) Perry, wife of
Columbus Hurst. She was born 1 May 1853, and died 9 Dec
1891).
I will
list the information I found, and let you decide if this is your family. I hope
you will get back to me and tell me all the particulars. I would like to know
the name of the child, your grandparent, who may have been her child. That child
might appear in other family listings in the 1900
census.
Here we
go:
1870
Fed Census, Brown County, IL
Cooperstown
Township 228/228
William
Perry, 26, farmer, b. IL
Mary E.
Perry, 24, b. IL
Charles*
Perry 2, b. IL (this later becomes Oscar
C*.)
Elmore*,
1/12, b. IL (his name is spelled wrong in every census, this one was written
Emaline*!)
1880
Fed Census, Brown County, IL
Cooperstown
Township 220/220
William
C. Perry, 36, widower, b. IL, father b. TN, mother b.
IN
Oscar C.
Perry, 12, b. IL, both parents b. IL
Elimer*,
9, b. IL, both parents b. IL (this is
Elmore*)
Scott,
5, b. IL, both parents b. IL
Hattie,
2, b. IL,
both parents b. IL
From
History of Brown County
and Cemeteries of Brown
County, IL, I learned that William C. Perry was the son of James
Perry & Eliza Hills. He married 1) Mary E. Grover (d/o Thomas J. Grover
& Mary Ames) on 5 April 1866 in Brown County, IL. They had 5 children: Oscar
(middle name Charles), Elmore, Scott, Hattie, and Olive. Mary E. (Grover) Perry
d. 1879 at age 33. William C. Perry married 2) Ann or Anna Whitehead on 24 April
1882 in Morgan Co, IL. They had one child, Orpha
(1885-1960).
Cemeteries
of Brown County, IL
Cross
Roads Cemetery, Cooperstown, p. 41:
Hattie
Perry, d/o
William C. Perry & Mary E. Grover (d. 1893 aged 16yr 1mo 19da) I used my PAF
date calculator and her birth date came up as 8 Dec
1877.
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That’s
about it for a preliminary report. Normally I don’t do so much digging, but I
got curious about this one. I will hang on to my notes until I hear back from
you.
Laurie
Huffman
-----Original
Message-----
From: Sherry
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:01
AM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Brown
County (1870 Census Index)
Hi,
My name
is Sherry, from
Thank
you,
Sherry