Obituaries: Josephine Erskine Perkins, 1943, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 14, 1943 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. J. Perkins Dies Following Heart Attack On Monday

Funeral Services Held Wednesday; Interment In Local Cemetery

Mrs. Josephine Perkins, age 77, widow of the late Henry J. Perkins, died at
her home here Monday morning at 11:00 o'clock following a sudden heart attack.

Funeral services were held from the First Baptist Church, of which she was a
member, Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock conducted by the Rev. H. H.
McBride, pastor, assisted by the Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor of the First
Methodist Church and the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Methodist
Church.  Interment was in the local cemetery beside her husband, who preceded
her in death on February 6, 1928.

Mrs. Perkins was born in Winn Parish October 28, 1865, the youngest of a
family of ten children.  Her parents were Wm. A. and Charity Ann Erskine of
Hickory Valley Community.  Her father died when she was only a month old. She
was married to Henry Perkins on February 16, 1879 and to them were born six
children, four of whom survive.  The oldest daughter, Martha Ann Nevada,
died in 1903 and the only son, William Jackson Perkins, died in 1929.

The surviving children are Mrs. W. W. Allen, Mrs. Eula Peavy, and Mrs. W. O.
Averett of Winnfield, and Mrs. J. P. Durham of Houma.  There  are twelve
grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren, and two brothers, George Erskine
and Willis Erskine of Sikes, who survive her.

Her grandsons, Rev. W. M. Averett, W. J. Perkins, J. W. Allen, Warren Allen,
E. H. Peavy, and Wayne Durham served as pallbearers.  She was an aunt of
Congressman A. Leonard Allen and of the late Governor O. K. Allen.