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Saxadotha D. "Saxa" Perkins Douglas
30 Aug 1829 – 1921
| Birth | 30 Aug 1829 |
| Death | 1921 |
| Cemetery | Forest Home Cemetery Milwaukee , Milwaukee County , Wisconsin , USA |
| Added by | Joyce Castle on 24 Mar 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113388627 |
Bio
Perkins, Saxadotha D. Life Story Saxa was the oldest living child of 21 children born to Daniel Perkins Jr. The family lived in central New York near Columbus in Chenango County and later relocated to Cincinnatus. When Saxa was about 11 years old, her mother, Lucy Loomis, died (most likely from complictions of childbirth). Sometime later, her father remarried a woman named Olive who was just 8 years older than Saxa. In about 1846, the family left the state of New York, and moved to Wisconsin making the journey from Buffalo NY by boat on Lake Erie. About five years later, Saxa married a Scottish man named Sholto Douglas. He had been born in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland in 1808, had immigrated to Canada where in 1826 (at the age of 17) he served in the 74th Foot Soldiers. We can only guess that Sholto again relocated and ended up in Waukesha County, Wisconsin where he married Saxa in April of 1826. Saxa and Shalto ended up in Davenport, Iowa where he died just 9 years after they married leaving Saxa a widow at age 30. The couple had no children. Saxa moved to Chicago where she made a living by taking in boarders. Some years later, she relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and she spent the last twenty years of her life living in the Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged. She died there in 1921 at age 91.
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- Delos Garland Perkins 1833–1900
- Clark Gardener Perkins 1835–1919
- Mrs Caroline Lucy "Carrie" Perkins Beal 1836–1893
- Hellen Jane Perkins 1838–1839
- Daniel Ezra Perkins 1840–1912
- Julina Perkins Wilkinson 1843–1874
- Mary L. Perkins Bovee 1845–1936
- Celia Perkins 1847–?
- Ella Climena Perkins Alvord 1850–1940
- Elsie Perkins Perkins 1852–1935
- Delia A. Perkins Freeman 1855–1929
- Miles T Perkins 1857–1947
- Martha Perkins 1859–1873
- Oren J Perkins 1861–1905
- Maude A. Perkins 1865–1948
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