Ray County, Missouri Obituaries - Parthena Perkins (1815-1906)

Richmond Conservator, April 19, 1906 

Parthena Perkins, whose death occurred on April 11th, was held last
Thursday afternoon from the home of her daughter, Mrs. R.J. Williams,
in East Richmond, conducted by Rev. C. B. Duncan, pastor of the Methodist
church. The funeral was largely attended and at its conclusion all that
was mortal of this good woman was conveyed to the Todd's Chapel cemetery
and there buried beneath the sod of the county in which she had lived
for more than four score years. 

Unknown newspaper, October 19, 1906 (from the scrapbook of Laura Williams,
2nd wife of Major Robert Jones Williams. Current owner of scrapbook known
but name withheld.)

One of Ray’s Oldest Women
Mrs. Parthena Perkins Has Lived Here More Than Eighty Four Years
Accompanying this sketch is an excellent likeness of Mrs. Parthena Perkins,
who is probably the oldest woman in Ray County. 
Mrs. Perkins is a native of Athens, Alabama, where she was born
September 12, 1815, and is now in her 91st year. She is a daughter of the
late Joseph H. Ball who was a pioneer Methodist minister, and emigrated to
Missouri with her parents and settled in Richmond when she was six years
of age. For more than eight-four years she has been a residen of this city
and vicinity, which she has seen advance from a sparsely settled community
to a busy city of more than five thousand population. It is indeed interesting
to hear her talk of the early history of this city and county and of the
time when the present town site was a corn field and when she attended
school in the old log building used for a court house which stood on the
site of the present court house. Mrs. Perkins united with the Methodist
church more than sixty years ago and has always been a devout christian
woman and one whose every act was worthy of emulation. She is the widow
of Haskin Perkins, who died during the civil war. 
She is the mother of two children, one of who, Mrs. Robert J. Williams,
with whom she makes her home in East Richmond, is living. She is numbered
amon Ray county’s many noble women and er host of friends trust that she
will be spared for many more years.


Richmond newspaper April 12, 1906
Mrs. Parthena Perkins Dead.
She was numbered Among Ray County’s Oldest Residents.
Mrs. Parthena Perkins, who was probably the oldest woman in Ray county,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert J. Williams, on Woodson
Institute street, this city, Wedsday afternoon, April 11th. Her death
resulted from diseases incident to old age and was not unexpected by
her relatives and friends.
Mrs. Perkins was the widow of the late Haskin Perkins and a daughter
of the late Joseph H. Ball, who was one of the pioneer Methodist ministers
of this state. She was a native of Alabama, born September 12, 1815,
and was in her 91st year when she died. She emigrated to Missouri with
her parents and settled in Richmond when she was six years old and for
eighty five years had been a resident of this city and vicinity. She
united with the Methodist church more the sixty years ago and had always
been a devout christian woman and one whose every act was worthy of emulation.
She was the mother of two children, one of whom, Mrs. Williams, with whom
she made her home, survives her and who has the sympathy of many friends
in the death of a noble, christian mother.
The funeral was held this afternoon at one o’clock at the residence of
Mrs. Williams, conducted by Rev. C. B. Duncan, pastor of the Methodist
church following which the body was taken to Todd’s chapel for interment.


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