House of Hackett

Robert Joshua PERRY

Male 1857 - 1923  (65 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Robert Joshua PERRY was born on 24 Dec 1857 (son of Peter Boyer PERRY and Elizabeth DUKE); died on 25 Jan 1923.

    Family/Spouse: Jane FAIR. Jane was born on 20 Dec 1857; died on 23 Sep 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Georgia B. PERRY was born on 1 Dec 1880; died on 24 Jul 1959.
    2. Collinese PERRY was born on 14 Dec 1883; and died.
    3. Robert Fair PERRY was born on 20 Apr 1885; and died.
    4. Nancy E. PERRY was born on 19 Oct 1886; and died.
    5. Mary E. PERRY was born on 2 Feb 1887; and died.
    6. Charlotte M. PERRY was born on 27 Dec 1888; and died.
    7. Mark PERRY was born on 29 Dec 1890; died on 13 Mar 1901.
    8. Janie May PERRY was born on 11 May 1894; and died.
    9. Annie Edna PERRY was born on 10 May 1898.
    10. Jarvis V. PERRY was born on 23 Feb 1900.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Peter Boyer PERRYPeter Boyer PERRY was born on 11 Apr 1823 (son of Joshua Sikes PERRY and Lucy Elmira SHUBERT); died on 7 Jan 1899.

    Notes:

    Peter Boyer Perry served in Company F, 9th Regiment, State of Florida during the Civil War. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on April 9, 1865.

    "Peter B. Perry taught school in a log meeting house near the Crum cemetery, southwest of Summerfield, beginning in 1854, for a number of years." Excerpt from, "Gone with the Hickory Stick: School Days in Marion County 1845-1960," by Broward Lovell

    The following article appeared in the Ocala Star Banner on 21 October 1998

    "Founding Families still live in Pedro," BY CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, STAFF WRITER

    Chances are if your family has lived near the comer of County Roads 42 and 475 for a long stretch of years, you had some Proctors or Perrys among your ancestors.

    Those two families settled Pedro, a loosely defined community west of Summerfield, more than a century ago. They raised cattle, hogs and watermelon, and it wasn't at all uncommon for a Proctor gal to marry a Perry feller, or vice-versa.

    "There's an old saying that if you see some guy on the street, you can say, 'Hello, Mr. Perry,' and if he doesn't answer you can come back and say, 'Hello, Mr. Proctor' and get an answer," said Ralph Hackett, 67.

    Hackett, who lives across the street from his [grand]father's farmhouse where he was born, is a direct descendant of Peter Boyer Perry, who gave Pedro its name. His great-great-grandfather passed through the area in 1847 on his way to fight in the Mexican-American War.

    Perry helped win the war, planting a flag inside Mexico City. He stayed there for two more years, friends with many of the Mexicans who used to be his enemies.

    "He was called Pedro, which is Spanish for Peter," Hackett said.

    As he prepared to return to the States, Perry's mind recalled the quiet open lands in Florida he had passed through, and thought it would be a great place to raise cattle. He became one of the first white men to settle the area, and gave it his Spanish name.

    In 1849, when most people were going out West for the Gold Rush, he came to Florida," Hackett said. Don't make the mistake of pronouncing the name as "pay-dro," though it's "pee-dro!'

    It would remain a spread-out farming community. In the early days the Perrys let their cattle roam free, rounding them up when auction time came. Occasionally the men would fight off roving raiding bands of Seminole indians.

    Nearby Dank

    Peter married Elizabeth DUKE. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert DUKE and Nancy KING) was born on 25 Jul 1831; died on 18 May 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth DUKEElizabeth DUKE was born on 25 Jul 1831 (daughter of Robert DUKE and Nancy KING); died on 18 May 1894.
    Children:
    1. Kieth Butler PERRY was born on 10 Feb 1853; died on 15 Aug 1901.
    2. Rufus Enges PERRY was born on 3 Nov 1856; died on 28 Jan 1917.
    3. 1. Robert Joshua PERRY was born on 24 Dec 1857; died on 25 Jan 1923.
    4. Charles Boyer PERRY was born on 21 Oct 1860; died on 6 Sep 1910.
    5. Marion Tibitha PERRY was born on 6 Mar 1862; died on 15 May 1945.
    6. Cora Bertha PERRY was born on 27 Dec 1863; died on 15 Jan 1910.
    7. William Tyra PERRY was born on 8 Jun 1866; died on 17 Feb 1954.
    8. Lillian Esdale PERRY was born on 14 May 1868; died on 21 May 1940; was buried in Pine Level Cemetary, Oxford, FL.
    9. Lelia Isabella PERRY was born on 13 Apr 1870; died on 4 Apr 1942.
    10. Levi Sidney PERRY was born on 7 Jul 1872; died on 18 Sep 1967.
    11. Lucy PERRY
    12. Grace PERRY
    13. Infant PERRY


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Joshua Sikes PERRY was born in 1789 (son of Richard PERRY and STEVENS); died in 1846.

    Notes:

    From Lancaster, SC.

    Joshua married Lucy Elmira SHUBERT. Lucy was born in 1796; died in 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Lucy Elmira SHUBERT was born in 1796; died in 1876.
    Children:
    1. Levi PERRY was born in 1812; and died.
    2. John Sikes PERRY was born on 13 Apr 1815; died on 25 Jun 1889.
    3. Lucy Elizabeth PERRY was born in 1817; and died.
    4. Sarah PERRY was born in 1819; and died.
    5. Nancy PERRY was born in 1821; and died.
    6. 2. Peter Boyer PERRY was born on 11 Apr 1823; died on 7 Jan 1899.
    7. Charles S. PERRY was born in 1824; died in 1846.
    8. William S. PERRY was born in 1826; died in 1889.
    9. Joshua Sikes PERRY was born in 1829; died in 1893.
    10. Joseph Todd Copeland PERRY was born in 1832; died in 1864 in Nashville, TN.
    11. Richard Miles PERRY was born in 1835; and died.

  3. 6.  Robert DUKE

    Robert married Nancy KING. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Nancy KING
    Children:
    1. 3. Elizabeth DUKE was born on 25 Jul 1831; died on 18 May 1894.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Richard PERRY died in 1842.

    Richard married STEVENS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  STEVENS
    Children:
    1. 4. Joshua Sikes PERRY was born in 1789; died in 1846.
    2. Benjamin PERRY
    3. Joshua PERRY
    4. Sarah PERRY
    5. PERRY