Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Jesse Perkins

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Jesse Perkins was born December 23, 1828, in Warren County, Tenn., and 
is a son of Robert B. and Sarah (Norris) Perkins. The father was born 
in South Carolina in 1790, and after becoming of age went to Warren 
County, Tenn., traveling through unbroken country with a one horse and 
ox team. About twenty years later he went to Lafayette County, Mo., 
and farmed thirteen years. He had some nine negroes, two wagons and 
teams, besides other good property, which he sold for $35,000, and 
then spent a year in Washington County, where he made a crop, going in 
1841 to Barry County, Mo., where he died in 1863. The mother was born 
in Warren County, Tenn., and had twelve children, half the number now 
living: Polly, widow of Robert Logan, of Missouri: Lavinia, widow of 
M. Logan; Martha, widow of James Mayfield; John B., Jesse and Robert. 
Those deceased are James, William, Jadida McWilliams. Jemima, Sarah 
Lee and Prudence A. The mother of these children was born in 1792 and 
died in Crawford County, Ark., June 11, 1884. Uto Perkins, the 
grandfather, immigrated to this country from England. He was a soldier 
in the Black Hawk War, and his wife, Sarah. was a native of South 
Carolina. David Norris, the maternal grandfather, was born of Irish 
parentage in the United States, and settled in Tennessee in an early 
day. His wife, Betsey, was a native of that State, and after her 
marriage moved to Lafayette County. Mo., where both she and her 
husband died. Jesse Perkins was brought to Missouri by his parents 
when an infant, and when fourteen went to Washington County, a year 
later going to Barry County. During the war he went to Texas, being in 
the Confederate service, but was discharged on account of disability. 
After living two years in Grayson County, he came to Crawford County, 
where he now has twenty-five acres under cultivation. In 1854 he 
wedded Lourena Hartley, daughter of Andrew and Lourena Hartley, of 
Benton County. Both parents were natives of Bedford County, where the 
mother died in 1837. Lourena then lived with her grandfather, Louis 
Heath. He originally came from North Carolina, and died in Benton 
County November 22, 1872. His wife, Elizabeth (Ray) Heath, was born in 
Tennessee in 1803 and died in Benton County in 1882. Louis Heath was a 
minister in the Missionary Baptist Church forty years, and for twenty-
eight years had charge of a church in Bedford County. Mr. and Mrs. 
Perkins also belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, and in politics 
the former is a Democrat. 

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