Douglas County OR Archives Biographies.....Perdue, William February 22, 1850 - July 26, 1912
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Author: Portrait & Biographical Record Western Oregon (1904)

pg. 209 & 210
WILLIAM PERDUE 
It seems eminently fitting that the oldest son of John Perdue, the pioneer of 
1850, should succeed to the management of the farm upon which his father 
expended so much of his well directed energy. A survey of this old-time 
property, located three miles east of Day's Creek post office and four hundred 
and forty acres in extent, disclosed to the observer a happy combination of the 
old and the new, the methods and improvements of the father, and the later 
additions of the progressive son. Mr. Perdue has excellent barns as well as 
large herds of Hereford cattle and Xerino sheep. Practically the entire life of 
Mr. Perdue has been spent in Douglas county, for he was less than a year old 
when brought across the plains from his native Buchanan county, Mo., where he 
was born February 22, 1850. He was reared on the farm near Roseburg, upon that 
near Canyonville, and upon the one now occupied by him, and was educated in the 
public schools of the county. In 1877 he married Mary L. Tiller, who was born 
in the state, and with whom he located on a farm near Elk creek, where he lived 
eight years. He then purchased this part of the old homestead, around which 
cling so many memories of the parents who lived to be four score years old, and 
who died within eleven months of each other. Sixteen children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Perdue, the order of their birth being as follows: Benjamin Frank, 
living on a farm near his father; Mrs. Emma Farmer, of Coos county, Mrs. Belle 
Lamy, also of Coos county; William Marion, at home; George E., living near the 
home farm; Mandy, at home; Addie, of Coos county; and Artie, Carrie, Alice, 
Daniel O B., Ophir, May, Retha M., Walter and James N. Mr. Perdue is a firm 
believer in the benefits of education, and has never allowed work on the farm 
to interfere with a practical education for his children. He is a Republican in 
politics, and fraternally is a welcome member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows lodge. Mr. Perdue is one of the substantial and thoroughly reliable men 
of his neighborhood, and aside from any advantage to be gained from family 
connection, has won an independent reputation for himself as farmer, stock-
raiser, and a progressive and up-to-date citizen.

Additional Comments:
William Perdue was the son of John Perdue & Mary Mills. He married Mary L. 
Tiller daughter of Aaron Tiller & Rachael Russell. Mary was born 31 August 1860 
and died 10 Jan 1905 (nine days after giving birth to her seventeeth chlld). 
William Perdue died 26 July 1912. Both are buried in the Canyonville I. O. O. 
F. Cem, Douglas Co., OR.
Their children;
Benjamin Franklin b 19 May 1878
Emma b 17 August 1879
Belle b 30 Oct 1880
William Marion b 9 July 1882
George E b 31 Jan 1884
Amanda Helen b 24 March 1885
Addie b 30 Dec 1887
Artie Mecie b 7 Oct 1888
Carrie b 1 March 1890
Alice Elva b 7 August 1891
Daniel O. B b 29 July 1893
Ophir b 18 Feb 1895
May b 22 Dec 1896
Walter b 22 July 1899
James Nevelle b 23 Sept 1902
Retha b 1903
John b 1 Jan 1905

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