(Part of entry on Elias Perry, Sr.)
But then Elias JUNIOR, with the other youngsters in WVa, met and married his Adelia in Ashfield, MA. Huh? Moved from VT to French Creek when the boy was 12. How did he get back up to Massachusetts as a young man to have married a sweetheart in podunk Ashfield? Ashfield is near Conway....a tiny little hamlet in Western Mass, in the hills. It gets even more interesting when you look at WHERE at least 2 of their 10 children were born: New York State (Hubbard and Edwin). Both Elias and Adelia, we know, died in French Creek, so somewhere in there they (he) moved back south. I'll bet the marriage date is in the Phillip's genealogy somewhere. Since Adelia was a Phillips (daughter of Elijah and Cynthia Goodwin Phillips).

Why is it I cannot seem to wrap my head around the bigger picture of the move to French Creek? Sophronia Young (born in Elias, Jr's generation, in 1812) moved there with her parents when she was a small child. That must be where she met Edwin Phillips.

Later today, perhaps I'll sit down with this stuff again. Of Elias Jr. and Adelia's kids, Hubbard, Wilbur, and John joined the army in the war. We have copious info on Hubbard. Wilbur was a member of Co. B, 10th W.VA Infantry. John was a drummer in the Upshur Battery, 1st. WVA Light Artillery. After the war, Hubbard was a farmer and a stone mason. It is recorded that he laid the stone foundation for the French Creek Institute in 1872.