BIO:  PERKINS, Elisha, s/o Alfred & Rebecca (Ellis) Perkins

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

PERKINS   ELLIS   LAVELLE   JOHNSON   READY

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Vigo Twp., page 487

ELISHA PERKINS, farmer, was born in Daviess County, Ind., December 22, 1833,
and is one of a family of seven sons and four daughters of Alfred and
Rebecca (Ellis) Perkins, who were of English and Irish descent, born in
Kentucky in 1808 and 1811, and died in 1880 and 1870 respectively.  The 
father came to Indiana in his youth where he farmed, owning 120 acres of land.
Our subject received a somewhat limited education in the subscription schools,
owing to the shortness of the terms and the scarcity of schoolhouses.  He
resided with his parents until eighteen years of age, and after leaving home
hired out as a day laborer on a farm.  He went to the "Sunny South", and
chopped wood in Mississippi, and August 29, 1858, married Bridget Lavalle,
born in Indiana February, 14, 1838.  Her parents were John and Mary Lavalle.
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have no children of their own, but have reared these
two children:  Theodore S. Johnson, whom they took at the age of three years
and who is now nineteen years old, and Effie Ready, who was five years old on
coming to them and is now eight.  Mr. Perkins farmed in Daviess County some
time after marriage, but in 1863 came to Knox County, and two years later
purchased seventy acres of land in Vigo Township, where he has since made
his home.  He is a Republican and cast his first vote for Millard Fillmore.
He is an excellent citizen and a member of the Christian Church, and his
wife of the Baptist Church.
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