Biography of David L. Perkins - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 351

David L. Perkins, one of the foremost citizens of Craighead County, and a
resident of Jonesboro Township, was born in Fayette County, Tenn.,
October 17, 1845, and is the son of William H. Perkins, a native of
Virginia, who emigrated from the “Old Dominion” to Tennessee in 1826, and
Sarah (Wrightsell) Perkins, a native of Tennessee. They had six children,
four of whom are living–three sons and one daughter–and three are
residents of this county: Mary (wife of P. T. Hudson), D. L. and John W.
Mr. Perkins made a visit to this State in 1871, but returned to the old
homestead in Fayette County, Tenn., where he and his wife still reside,
aged seventy-nine and sixty-four years, respectively. David L. spent his
boyhood on the farm, and received a fair education in the common schools
of the county. He came with his father to this State in 1871, and
selected it as the place of his permanent residence. The father bought
200 acres of land, and for nine years David L. lived on it, but then
bought his homestead of 160 acres. He has a well-cultivated farm, with
about fifty-five acres improved. December 26, 1872, he wedded Laura
Thurman, a native of Fayette County, Tenn., who died in May, 1887,
leaving five children: Clarence C., Howard L., William D., Linnie E. and
Ernest D. He was again married, October 13, 1887, this time choosing Mrs.
Nannie E. (Fuller) Falls, a resident of this county. The result of this
union has been one boy, Edward Cecil. Mr. Perkins is prominent in
religious and educational interests, and in politics is a stanch
Democrst. He is a member of the Christian Church, and is an elder of the
Hope Church of that denomination. Mrs. Perkins is a benevolent Christian
lady, and also a member of the Christian Church at Hope.