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Luther Perkins, Wray
In 1895 Luther proved up on 160 acres in section 17, 2N 43W - about five miles north of Wray.
One possiblity is the Luther S. Perkins 1856-1924
buried in Pomeroy, Calhoun County, Iowa # 23783577, son of Abraham 'Charles' Perkins 1815-1892 and Amazina (Cushman) Perkins 1816-1872.
February 1924 Pomeroy, Iowa
"Luther Perkins of Maine, former resident just west
of Pomeroy, died the first of this week.
The body will be shipped here for burial."
In 1860 Woodstock, Oxford County, Maine, Luther is 5, with Charles Perkins 46, a farmer, Amazina 44, Charels C. 18, Amazina G 16, Eli C. 9, and Julia A. 7.
Samuel and Priscilla Perkins, both 50, are next to them.
In 1870 Buchanan County, Iowa, Charles Perkins is 66, Amazina 54. They have Amazna 25 an Luther 16.
In 1880 Luther, 24, born in Maine, is in Calhoun County, farming with his brother Tabor Perkins 36, both single.
July 6, 1893 "A half-mile farther east Charles Perkins and family saw the storm in time to take refuge in their cave. Their house and its contents were totally destroyed. On the Weidauer farm, south of Perkins', the buildings were taken, but no one was hurt. At the Dalton farm, three miles west of Pomeroy, everything was swept clean. When Mrs. Dalton saw the storm approaching she ran to a neighbor's and escaped injury. Mr. Dalton remained at his house and came out with a broken leg. Fred Parker, who was stopping at the Dalton place, had a narrow escape. He ran to get out of the storm's way, but, seeing it was going to over take him, dropped flat on the ground, Before the storm had passed, however, something impelled him to move on a little way. In making the move he left his hat where he had first lain, and upon returning afterward for the hat found it being held quite firmly to the ground by an 8 by 8 timber. Directly after the storm young Parker went to his father's place two miles north for help. J. F. Parker returned with him, with team and vehicle, and conveyed Dalton to Pomeroy for surgical treatment, not knowing, of course, that hundreds in the town were maimed and many killed. After things had cleared a little, following the passage of the tornado, Mr. Parker's daughter could see that the buildings on the Charles Perkins farm had been razed and she immediately went through the rain and hail with another team to render that family much-needed assistance in reaching a place of shelter. The Fullers, living south of Dalton's, saw the tornado approaching, Mr. and Mrs. Fuller went to the cellar, but Mrs. Fullers brother, Luther Perkins, went upstairs after his money. The house was taken before he had time to accomplish his mission, but he escaped injury. Mrs. Fuller was badly bruised by timbers thrown into the cellar." CHARLES PERKINS, Rev. b. Feb. 22nd, 1815, father of Charles G. Perkins, was a resident of Pocahontas county, IA most of the time from 1870 to 1887, and lived in Fonda, IA from 1874-1876. He received his early education in the public schools of Maine and at the age of nineteen became a member of the Calvinistic Baptist church. About the year 1852 at Androscoggin, he was ordained a minister of the Baptist denomination and served pastorates at North Paris, Bridgeton and Hartford in Maine, and Randolph in New Hampshire. In 1865 he was appointed a missionary by the Cedar Valley Baptist Association of Iowa and was located at Winthrop, IA four years. In 1869 he relinquished his commission and located on a farm in that vicinity. The next year he came with his son, Charles G. Perkins, to Pocahontas county, IA and preached as he had opportunity. He delivered the first sermon in Butler township, Calhoun Co., IA, in a temporary schoolhouse on section 3, in 1872, and held the first public services in English in Colfax township that same year, in the Stewart-Brownell schoolhouse on section 34. His wife, AMAZINA CUSHMAN b.1817, was of Puritan descent, came to this county in March, 1872, and died in December following. Two years later he married Mrs. ELIZABETH BICKNELL, of Pomeroy. About the year 1887 he returned to Paris, Maine, and died there July 6th, 1892. Rev. CHARLES PERKINS, a Baptist minister, in 1870 came to the home of his son, Charles G. Perkins, soon after his settlement on section 32, Colfax, IA, then a part of Cedar township, and that fall in a temporary schoolhouse on section 3, held the first public services in Butler township, IA. His first wife, AMAZINA CUSHMAN, a lady of Puritan descent, died Dec. 22nd, 1872, and was buried at Pomeroy, IA. Two years later he married Mrs. ELIZABETH BICKWELL and they lived in Fonda, IA, 1874 to 1876. During all these years he endeavored to maintain appointments in the schoolhouses in the vicinity of Fonda, IA, and during the summer of 1878, while living again at the home of his son, held services on alternate Sabbath afternoons in the Fonda, IA Schoolhouse. The next year he returned to Paris, Maine, where he died July 6th, 1892, in his 78th year. |
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