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 THE STORY AS I KNOW IT.

We believe that James & Penelope Perry were born between 1780/90 in Tennessee We do not know anything of their parents. A website states that Penelope's maiden name was Penelope Jenkins. There is no documentation.

There is a rather lengthy biography of the Perry family in The Princeton Art Guild 1987 Year Book Caldwell Ct, KY. It states that "James and Penelope Perry came to Caldwell County from Robertson County, TN. James died in 1834….The Perry children were William, married Irena Hubbard, Hardy M, married Sarah Cook, Patsy married Butler Hubbard, James J., John, Sarah married Nathanile Hubbard, Whitnell, and Littleton."  I can add that Littleton Perry wed Eliza Nichols on Sept 29, 1846.  From the LDS IGI records

The 1820 Census of Caldwell County lists James as head of household age 26-45. His wife 16 - 26. There were 2 boys 10-16, 3 boys under 10 and 2 girls under 2. That seems like a lot of children for a 26-year-old. However, the 1830 Census states that James is 40 - 50 and his wife is also 40-50. The children are as follows: 1 male 20-30, 1 male 15 - 20, 2 males 10 -15, 1 male 5 -10, and 1 male under 5, females 1 female 15 - 20, and 1 female 5-10.

Records of Revolutionary War Pension Papers of Soldiers who Settled Caldwell County say that James Perry gave a good neighbor testimony for Walter McChesney in 1832.

Tracking all the siblings of Sarah Perry through the Census, I discovered that the 1850 Caldwell Census stated that William Perry was born in NC.  and then the 1880 Census had the following:
Wyley Perry age 66 Farmer born KY, both parents born NC
Sallie Hubbard, age 59, sister, born KY, both parents born NC
Joseph Hubbard, age 27
Thomas Hubbard, age 24

This was the first I had ever heard of a connection to North Carolina, but it certainly implies that James Perry had a line back to North Carolina before Tennessee.  Can anyone else make a connection?

I have a copy of a court document of Caldwell county surveying the track of land that would be passed on to the "heirs and in-laws of said James Perry , deceased". It is dated July 1833.

I have a copy of a court document naming Penelope Perry guardian for John, Sally, Whitnell and Littleton Perry, infants of James Perry deceased. It is dated November 1836. Why this took 3 years I don't know.

The Princeton Art Guild 1987 Year Book Caldwell Ct, KY state that Penelope married William Rhodes in 1840. She died before 1850.

There is a Perry Cemetery north of Princeton Kentucky. Some of their children are buried there and it is possible this cemetery also holds the grave of James, but I have no record of his burial place.

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