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William Dixon Perkins

1813 – 4 Apr 1855

Birth1813
Death4 Apr 1855
CemeteryFirst Baptist Church Cemetery
Starkville , Oktibbeha County , Mississippi , USA
Added byNatalieMaynor on 25 Jun 2008
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27811509

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Links to parents provided by James Brooks Christoffersen , who also provided the following: **** Per Ussery family researcher/cousins, Cindy Casey, William Dixon Perkins was born in 1813, Giles Co., TN, to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins. He m. Mary Ann Ward (12/19/1833), and they had the following children: William Perkins (b. 1836), Elizabeth perkins (b. 1837), Franklin Perkins (b. 1839) and James Perkins (b. 1842). William was one of the founders of Starkville Baptist Church (7/28/1839). He m. Elizabeth Taggart (9/22/1847), and their only known child is Adella Perkins (b. 1850). Pauline, is the daughter of Peter Ussery (1762-1834), the son of William Ussery and Sarah Bayes Ussery of NC. Peter is credited with "patriotic service on the DAR website for having "furnished supplies." Peter Ussery and his first wife, Amelia ("Milly") Jarvis, had eleven children, including Mary Pauline. Peter and family (unknown whether Milly had died yet, due to destruction of courthouse records in Richmond Co., NC & Giles Co., TN) migrated to Giles Co., TN – probably between 1810 (he sold NC land 1808-10) and 1812 (listed in Giles Co. census). Peter Ussery's Giles Co. land and burial became part of Marshall Co. several years after his death. Pauline m. Joseph Perkins (7/12/1812), and they migrated to Monroe Co., Miss. by 1819, when they were listed as being part of the first meeting of New Hope Primitive Baptist Church (the oldest church in Monroe Co., Miss., in what is now called the town of Hatley, east of Amory). Joe Perkins and Pauline's brother, Richard Ussery, seem to have been very much involved in early church affairs, with Richard Ussery serving as a pastor. Joseph Perkins and Richard Ussery had adjoining parcels of land per the 1820 census of Monroe Co. per GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY by Betty W. Thomas, The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, Miss April 20 1978. Pauline Perkins' brothers (my 4th-g-gf) John & Samuel also migrated to Monroe Co., as early as 1820 (not listed as heads of households, but appear to match the age cohorts of the 2 young men under Richard's household). Richard Ussery and his wife were dead by 1823. John lived until 1865, Samuel until 1877, both remaining in the part of Monroe Co. that became Lowndes Co.; they and many of their children are buried at Vaughan Cemetery. The first horse mill in the county was owned by Joseph Perkins, who settled the old Thos. H. Woods place; customers came fifty miles to his mill for meal (per http://genealogytrails.com/miss/lowndes/history/history.html -- citing a contribution to The Columbus Index (1878), by Col. W. E. Gibbs, "an old citizen of Columbus, well qualified to furnish information and make a correct statement of the facts. . .his record is as worthy of credence as any heretofore examined.") Joseph and Pauline Perkins migrated to the Choctow Agency area in Oktibbeha Co. (by 6/21/1836 per The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, MS, May 11, 1978 & Cindy Casey). In 1837, Joseph Perkins built a horse operated grist mill. In 1838, he established the first tanning yard in Oktibbeha Co. He also bored a deep well, the first artesian well in the county. (Usry Bulletin #68, at 6.) ****

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