Rev. Charles Perkins b.1814 & Amazina (Cushman)
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Eli C. Perkins b. 1850 ME to IA
Dee Perkins 9/25/13
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SOURCE: The pioneer history of Pocahontas County, Iowa, from the time of its earliest settlement to the present time (1904)
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Rev. CHARLES PERKINS, a Baptist minister, in 1870 came to the home of his son, Charles G. Perkins, soon after his settlement on section 32, Colfax, IA, then a part of Cedar township, and that fall in a temporary schoolhouse on section 3, held the first public services in Butler township, IA. His first wife, Amazina Cushman, a lady of Puritan descent, died Dec. 22nd, 1872, and was buried at Pomeroy, IA. Two years later he married Mrs. Elizabeth Bickwell and they lived in Fonda, IA, 1874 to 1876. During all these years he endeavored to maintain appointments in the schoolhouses in the vicinity of Fonda, IA, and during the summer of 1878, while living again at the home of his son, held services on alternate Sabbath afternoons in the Fonda, IA Schoolhouse. The next year he returned to Paris, Maine, where he died July 6th, 1892, in his 78th year.
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Sincerely,
Denise Perkins Ready
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Re: Rev. Charles Perkins b.1815 & Amazina (Cushman)
Dee Perkins 10/07/13
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Charles G. Perkins b.1841 ME to IA
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