Mrs. Simon (Nancy) Perkins of Warren, OH 1862
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SOURCE: The Daily Cleveland Herald, (Cleveland, OH)
Saturday, May 17, 1862; Issue 116; col B
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Mrs. Nancy Perkins, widow of Gen. Simon Perkins, who died at Warren, OH, April 24th, 1862, aged eighty-two years and three months, from the Western Reserve Chronicle:
Mrs. Perkins was born in Lisbon, Conn, Jan.24th, 1780, and was a daughter of Capt. Ezra Bishop. Of a large family of children, she was the last survivor, and the only one who married and left descendants.
On the 18th of March, 1804, she was married to Simon Perkins of Warren, OH, in the then Northwestern Territory, and soon after left for her new home in the almost broken wilderness of the far west. After twenty-two days of travel the journey was accomplished. Starting in a carriage, they were compelled, at Chambersburgh, Penn, by the bad state of the roads, to exchange that mode of travel for the saddle. Warren, OH was then a village of sixteen log houses, with perhaps two frame mechanic shops.
Looking to the constant changes and improvements of the day, she was often led to contrast them with her early expectations, frequantly remarking that she had only looked forward (and that with doubt) to a period when the mails, then carried only on foot or on horseback, should be conveyed by coaches, little dreaming that she would live to see them come by rail and steam.
She often spoke with devout admiration of the wonderful changes she had lived to witness, and was accustomed to conclude by saying "If man can make these wonderful improvements, what must his Maker be?" She was remarkable for tracing everything up to its great first cause. She was one who saw Sermons in stones, books in running brooks, and God in everything.
Mrs. Perkins took great delight in cultivating fruits, and a few choice flowers, and what, in her view, lent to the flower it its greatest charm, was that it was a symbol of the wisdom, power and goodness of the Creator.
Mrs. Perkins was no sentimentalist, she was a Christian, and her religion was something real, something practical. It went down into the very depths of the soul, guiding and controlling the whole life.
For fifty-two years she was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Warren, OH, and at the time of her death had been longer a member then any other one then living. She took a deep interest in the welfare of the Church. To her is the Church indebted for its Parsonage, and many other munificent deeds. But more valuable than all, where her prayers and her pious influence. She was indeed a Mother in Israel. She loved the Sanctuary, and even down to her last illiness, was she punctually present on the Sabbath, whether in sunshine or in storm.
Wherever you might meet her, whether at home or in the social circle, you were irresistibly impressed that you were in the presence of a woman of uncommon intelligence and deep toned piety, and you could pass through the deep waters of affliction. Of her nine children, six, together with her husband, had gone before her. Her a afflictions had chastened her spirit, causing her to loosen her hold on earth, and take strone hold on heaven. But the intelligent, the pious, the useful died. The Master says "Come up higher, where I have more important work for you to perform".
The departure of Mrs. Perkins will be deeply felt by her family, by the Church, by the community: yes and beyond. Her prayers and her alms compassed the world. Her charities reached the needy at home and abroad. God gave her a heart to go good, and the means to do it, and faithfully did she execute her stewardship. Having finished her course, the benediction of her Master is, "Well done , good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord".
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I am not researching this family and I have NO further information to provide.
Denise Perkins Ready
(Transcriber)
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