Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Perkins, William H 1887
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Joliet Daily Republic & Sun, June 19, 1887
Died. PERKINS - In his seventy-eighth year, William H. Perkins died June 18 at 
his home in Aux Sable, Grundy County.
 
The funeral took place on Friday, burial in the Aux Sable burial ground.

Mr. Perkins was born September 23, 1809, in Oneida County, New York. September 
23, 1823, when he was twenty-three years old, he arrived in Chicago in quest 
of wealth and honor, both of which he died possessed. The first night in the 
village of Chicago he stayed with Beanbeans who kept a hotel.  The day 
following, in company with J. D. Caton, James H. Collins, and Mr. Snell, all 
from Oneida County, he started on foot for Aux Sable, arriving there on the 
26th of September, staying with Chester House, where Justin House now lives.

In March, 1834, Mr. Perkins located at Aux Sable, and was afterward married to 
Elizabeth A. Van Dalson at Ottawa on May 2, 1837. In 1850 the family moved to 
Joliet, living here eleven years, and then went back to the farm, where they 
have ever since resided, beloved and respected by all, as was evidenced by 
the  universal expression of sorrow from a gathering never before seen in 
Grundy County.

Mr. Perkins was a man of remarkable force of character, sturdy in morals and 
physique. He was well qualified to grapple with the modes of making a name and 
fortune in the early day. He came from a long-lived race, his mother dying 
last July aged one hundred years and five months, and Mr. Perkins would have 
repelled death many years more had not a lingering disease attacked him. When 
a young man he froze his feet, which in his old age produced blood poisoning. 
A year since he had one leg amputated and recovered from the shock with every 
appearance of being long for this world. A few months ago the remaining leg 
became affected and nothing could save him.

Mr. Perkins' widow, one son and one daughter survive him, the daughter being 
Mrs. Joseph E. Gougar of New Lenox. The son, Van, enlisted in the 100th 
Illinois Regiment, Co. E, and was killed in the battle of Chickamauga and 
found a grave in Southern soil far from home.

Mr. Perkins was one of the typical men of early times in the West and whose 
ranks are being daily culled.

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