Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John F. PERRY

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Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, <darbush @wizrealm.com>,
April 1998
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JOHN F. PERRY - merchant and farmer of Anthonys Creek district,
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was born in this district, November
15, 1844.  His marriage was solemnized on Little Creek, this county,
where Susan GARDNER became his wife on the 5th of October, 1865.  She
was born on Little Creek, August 25, 1841.  Moses Hill PERRY and
Elizabeth Jane (BUZZARD) PERRY are his parents, and his wife is a
daughter of James and Hannah (McCLURE) GARDNER. Her father was born
in Augusta County, Virginia.  Before he was eighteen years old, John
F. PERRY entered the Confederate service as a member of Company E,
26th Virginia Volunteer Battalion, and he served until the last year
of the war, returning to his home in Greenbrier County March 11, 1865.
He was in the battles of:  Lewisburg, Fayettesville, White Sulphur,
Droop Mountain, New Market, Winchester-two battles-Leestown, Fisher Hill,
Martinsburg, Frederic City, Cold Harbor, the seven days fight near
Richmond, Lynchburg, and many others.  He was made prisoner at Winchester,
September 19, 1864, and was paroled on the field to look after the
Confederate wounded and sick who were prisoners of war.  Thence he was
sent to Baltimore, where he administered to the sick and the wounded of
both parties.  He has 200 acres of land on Little Creek about three miles
from Alvon, with a superior quality of iron ore and two mineral springs.
Mr. PERRY and his estimable wife are in the membership of the Methodist
Protestant Church, in which he is a licensed exhorter.  They have no
children but an adopted son, Howard McCALISTER.  John F. PERRY's post
office address is Alvon.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.

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