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

Submitted by:  phill@4redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

PERKINS   ELLIS   HONEY   WALLER   

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

ALBERT PERKINS (deceased) was a son of Alfred and Rebecca (Ellis) Perkins,
and was born in Daviess County, Ind., in 1828.  The parents were natives
of Kentucky, where they married and lived until their removal to this county.
The mother's death occurred in 1873, and the father's some years later.
Subject received poor educational advantages, but on reaching manhood he
began reading and traveling, thereby becoming a well-informed man.  In 1851
he took a trip across the desert of America to California, and after about
three years returned and purchased 160 acres of land, and began tilling the
soil.  By his industry he increased his farm to 230 acres, and furnished it
with good buildings.  In 1856 he married Hannah L., daughter of James and
Mary (Waller) Honey, born in 1829.  Her parents were natives of Kentucky.
The father died in 1847, but the mother lived several years afterward.  Mr.
and Mrs. Perkins became the parents of eight children:  Peter T., Mary E.,
Sarah J., Ulysses G., James, Millard, George W. and Albert M.  Mr. Perkins
was a stanch Republican, and cast his first vote for Scott.  The last nine
years of his life was a period of constant suffering.  He died in 1883, 
after a useful and well spent life.  His widow and her two sons, Ulysses and
James, have since taken charge of the farm.
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