Perry/Wallin Ancestry - Person Sheet
Perry/Wallin Ancestry - Person Sheet
NameElias Perry 
Birth18 May 1781
Death17 Apr 1863, French Creek WV
FatherEzra Perry (1741-1821)
MotherJemima Titus (1744-)
Spouses
Marriage27 Oct 1803, Attleboro MA
ChildrenElias (1804-1845)
Notes for Elias Perry
( E-mail from Cindy Tavernise, Sept. 12, 2007)
In the folder that Linn Perry gave Mother, it states:
Children of Elias and Fanny Bishop Perry:
It should be noted that the date of the marriage of Elias and Fanny Bishop and the date of the birth of Elias Perry Jr. are not in accordance to the normal course of events. It should be considered that there is an error in one or the other dates. The records from which this information was taken does not list Elias Jr. along with the other children (there were 9?). However, in another section it definitely states that Elias Jr. is the son of Elias Sr. and Fanny Perry, and that he was born in Guilford, VT in1804.
It's interesting that none of the other dates for the younger children is recorded. We'd have to assume, though, that Elias Jr. came first?
The children:
Elias Perry, Jr. born Mar. 29, 1804 at Guilford, VT married Adelia Phillips in Ashfield, MA (no date here for marriage)
Ezra
Abel
Jemima
Molly
Esther
Lydia
Olive
Teresa
Another discrepancy is between the Perry info and the Phillips Genealogy. The Phillips info lists a Richard Phillips as having married Eliza Perry, born July 17, 1807 at Guilford, VT...died Feb. 1, 1897. Her name is not recorded with the other kids, however in the recent book on the History of the French Creek Presbyterian Church, it records the fact that Eliza Perry Phillips joined the church on Dec. 20, 1843 and as being the daughter of Elias Perry.
This stuff gets like Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.....damn.
I think one of those who compiled all this in the folder...either Linn or my grandfather Orr must have been sipping something.
On the first page, it states that the record was partly compiled by Henry Clinton Perry of the 9th generation. "Henry is directly descended from Elias Perry, Sr. However, recent research by Katherine Perry Hartwell, granddaughter of Henry Clinton Perry,m indicates that ther might be some disrecrepancies from the 2nd generation to the 6th generation. In order to get the beginning and the latest records of the Perry Family recorded, I am accepting Henry Perry's record from the first to the sixth generation hoping that when the correct lineage is found, I can correft this record." (Linn Perry)
And, correcting is in order. That same page confuses Fanny Bishop with Delia: "Elias and Delia (Bishop) Perry, Sr. who settled in French Creek, (W)Virginia in 1816." Of course, it's a typo....should be Fanny. If Elias Jr. and a mystery sister Eliza (who married the Phillips) were recorded to have been born in VT in 1804 and 1807 respectively, Elias Sr. and Fanny must have marched down to VA when she was pregnant with one or two of the others. I mean...in 1816...they must have been at it every day to have that many kids by the time he died at 41(1845 in French Creek).
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.
Linn wrote: All the subsequent dates from Hubbard and Harriet's time were taken from the Perry Family Bible (Linn Perry had possession of it....wonder where it is now?) Other pertinent informatioin was taken from early issues of the French Creek Pioneer booklet. ("470 Years of Service of the Young, Gould, Sexton and Phillips Families" by Stanley H. Fidler)
In the folder that Linn Perry gave Mother, it states:
Children of Elias and Fanny Bishop Perry:
It should be noted that the date of the marriage of Elias and Fanny Bishop and the date of the birth of Elias Perry Jr. are not in accordance to the normal course of events. It should be considered that there is an error in one or the other dates. The records from which this information was taken does not list Elias Jr. along with the other children (there were 9?). However, in another section it definitely states that Elias Jr. is the son of Elias Sr. and Fanny Perry, and that he was born in Guilford, VT in1804.
It's interesting that none of the other dates for the younger children is recorded. We'd have to assume, though, that Elias Jr. came first?
The children:
Elias Perry, Jr. born Mar. 29, 1804 at Guilford, VT married Adelia Phillips in Ashfield, MA (no date here for marriage)
Ezra
Abel
Jemima
Molly
Esther
Lydia
Olive
Teresa
Another discrepancy is between the Perry info and the Phillips Genealogy. The Phillips info lists a Richard Phillips as having married Eliza Perry, born July 17, 1807 at Guilford, VT...died Feb. 1, 1897. Her name is not recorded with the other kids, however in the recent book on the History of the French Creek Presbyterian Church, it records the fact that Eliza Perry Phillips joined the church on Dec. 20, 1843 and as being the daughter of Elias Perry.
This stuff gets like Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.....damn.
I think one of those who compiled all this in the folder...either Linn or my grandfather Orr must have been sipping something.
On the first page, it states that the record was partly compiled by Henry Clinton Perry of the 9th generation. "Henry is directly descended from Elias Perry, Sr. However, recent research by Katherine Perry Hartwell, granddaughter of Henry Clinton Perry,m indicates that ther might be some disrecrepancies from the 2nd generation to the 6th generation. In order to get the beginning and the latest records of the Perry Family recorded, I am accepting Henry Perry's record from the first to the sixth generation hoping that when the correct lineage is found, I can correft this record." (Linn Perry)
And, correcting is in order. That same page confuses Fanny Bishop with Delia: "Elias and Delia (Bishop) Perry, Sr. who settled in French Creek, (W)Virginia in 1816." Of course, it's a typo....should be Fanny. If Elias Jr. and a mystery sister Eliza (who married the Phillips) were recorded to have been born in VT in 1804 and 1807 respectively, Elias Sr. and Fanny must have marched down to VA when she was pregnant with one or two of the others. I mean...in 1816...they must have been at it every day to have that many kids by the time he died at 41(1845 in French Creek).
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.
Linn wrote: All the subsequent dates from Hubbard and Harriet's time were taken from the Perry Family Bible (Linn Perry had possession of it....wonder where it is now?) Other pertinent informatioin was taken from early issues of the French Creek Pioneer booklet. ("470 Years of Service of the Young, Gould, Sexton and Phillips Families" by Stanley H. Fidler)