Person:Samuel Perry (48)

Personal History

Samuel C. Perry, son of William Perry and E[lizabeth], died 5 August 1851, at the age of 3 years, 1 month, and 12 days; he was buried in the Dickerson church graveyard, in Cadiz township.^[2] This tombstone record taken in 1896 contradicts a family history published five years earlier where it was written that Samuel L. Perry was born in 1855 and died of scarlet fever at the age of three.^[1] Either these are different children, or the recollection of participants was incorrect when the profile was written.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} “W. T. Perry”, in Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Harrison and Carrol, Ohio: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many early settled families. (Chicago [Illinois]: J.H. Beers, 1891)
   pp. 472–473.

   A son of William W. Perry and Betsey Kelley, and born in Short Creek Township, Harrison Co., Ohio: “Samuel L., born in 1855, died of scarlet fever, when he was three years of age, and is buried in Dickerson's Cemetery.”

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} “Burials in Dickerson graveyard”, in Hanna, Charles Augustus. Historical collections of Harrison County, in the state of Ohio: with lists of the first land-owners, early marriages (to 1841), will records (to 1861), burial records of the early settlements, and numerous genealogies. (New York, U.S.A.: [C.A. Hanna?], 1900)
   p. 370.

   “Samuel C. Perry, son of William and E., d. Aug. 5, 1851; 3y. 1m. 12d.” Tombstone recorded 3 Aug. 1896.