Grady COUNTY GA Obituaries - Mrs. Mattie Perkins 1938 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Janet Sumner ************************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ************************************************************************************************************** The Cairo Messenger, Friday, April 8, 1938 Death Claims Mother of Grady's Ex-Sheriff Mrs. Mattie Perkins, of Bainbridge, 84 years of age, and mother of former Sheriff D. D. Perkins, of Grady County, was laid to rest at Attapulgus last Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with the burial rites in charge of Elder T. R. Crawford, of Cairo, assisted by Rev. H. H. Shell, of Bainbridge. An honorary escort of prominent Decatur County citizens accompanied the pallbearers. Mrs. Perkins, who was born Sept. 18th, 1853, died at the home of her daughter in Bainbridge on Thursday of last week, after a critical illness of only a brief duration. She came of a pioneer Decatur County family and was married in girlhood to Newton N. Perkins. To this union was born five children, and after the death of the father 47 years ago, Mrs. Perkins carried forward the burden of rearing her children on the farm northeast of Bainbridge. For 27 years, she had resided with her daughter in Bainbridge. Throughout her long and useful life, she met the vicissitudes the years brought with unusual courage and maintained a youthful and neighborly spirit that commended itself to many friends. She was a devout adherent of the Primitive Baptist faith. Surviving in addition to former Sheriff Perkins of near Whigham, are another son, P. P. Perkins, of Climax, and her daughter, Mrs. S. W. Martin of Bainbridge; twenty-one grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren; three brothers, Gordon Parker of Decatur County, Gus Parker of Lakeland, Fla., and Robert Parker, of Plummerville, Ark.; and one sister, Mrs. J. W. Peabody of Bainbridge. Robert Parker and his son, Brooks Parker, of Campbellton, Ark., were among the large number who attended the funeral.