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George Fletcher Perkins

5 Jan 1853 – 10 Sep 1923

Birth5 Jan 1853
Death10 Sep 1923
CemeteryWoodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn , Lowndes County , Mississippi , USA
Added byNatalieMaynor on 22 Aug 2006
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15466722

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George is the son Alfred Perkins and Keziah Vaughn Perkins. Alfred James was born 1814 in Giles County and died 23 January 1873. Keziah Frances Vaughn was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Vaughn. Keziah was born in 1816 in Giles County Tenn. and died April 24, 1873. Alfred and Keziah are buried at Vaughn Cemetery in Steens. George's siblings were: John Hardin, born 13 Oct. 1836, died 20 Apr. 1902, married Elizabeth (surname unknown) William Joseph, born 7 March 1842, died 3 Feb. 1907 in Hill Country, Bexar, Texas, married Julia P. Darden, born about 1844. William is buried in Old Lebanon Cemetery, Aquilla, Hill County, Texas Mary Elizabeth, about 1841, died in Greenwood Leflore County Miss. Samuel, born about 1846, died about 1870 in Apalachicola, Franklin Co. Florida and Alfred Perry, 03 Jan. 1853 – 15 July 1934, married in 1875 to Mary Bennie Sparks (10 June 1851 – 03 Apr. 1915), both buried at Vaughn cemetery. He married Zelpha Francella "Fanny" Vaughn on January 30, 1879 in Lowndes County Miss. George and Fanny were first cousins. Fanny was the daughter of Henry Brown & Martha Jane (Kidd) Vaughn. Keziah and Henry were sister and brother. Father of Martha Jane Perkins Grace, an infant (born August 20, 1883 died August 28, 1883) and Fletcher Brown Perkins. All are buried in Woodlawn. children were born in Lowndes Co. The 1860 census taken 07 July in Lowndes Co. for household 436 & family 450 lists A.D. Perkins (age 48), Kiziah (46), William (21), Samuel (14), George (10) Perry (5). A.D. was a farmer with $1500 in real estate and $15,000 in personal property. He and Kiziah were born in Tenn. The children were born in Miss. Samuel and George attended school. The 1870 census was taken 28 July in Police Dist. 2, Lowndes County. Household 162 & family 176 lists Alfred (age 59), Kiziah (47), Samuel (21), George (19) and Perry (17). Alfred was a farmer and Samuel, George, and Perry were farm laborers. Alfred had $1000 in real estate and $75 in personal property. This census shows that Alfred was born in Tenn, everyone else was born in Miss. The 1900 census taken 26 June in Beat 1 Township 17 Lowndes Co. for household 295 & family 297 lists George (age 47) born Jan. 1853, widowed, born in Miss.; Martha (19) daughter, born Jan. 1880 in Miss.; Fletcher B. (15) son, born March 1885 in Miss.; and Ples Hardaway (14) a servant, male, born April 1886. George owned his farm with a mortgage on it. In 1910, the census was taken 20 April for Beat 1, Lowndes County. Household and family 63 shows George (age 57), Jennie (30, dau.), Fletcher (25, son), and Jessie Lee (20, daughter in law). George was a farmer who owned his farm free of mortgage. He was a widow. Fletcher is listed as a farm laborer. The 1920 census taken 12 January in Beat 1 Township 17 for household 64 family 68 lists Fletcher (age 34), Jessie (30, wife), Leo (6, son), Miriam (3, dau.) and George (67, father). Fletcher was a farmer and George was a widower who had a general merchandise store. Fletcher owned his home free of mortgage. On the 1920 census, George is listed as a general merchandise store merchant.  The store is listed on the U.S. Geological Soil Survey taken in 1910 as being located at the southeastern corner of the intersection of Caledonia- Steens Road, Woodlawn Road & Anderson Grove Road. Later in the 1960-1990s this was the site of Malone's Grocery Store. At some point Mr. Perkins moved his store to be located beside his home on Highway 12. Although I couldn't find an exact date for the move, Bill Kidd, son of Lawrence & Olga Kidd, remembers the store being there during his childhood in the 1940s.

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