Elijah Perkins

ANSLEY, LUKECART, PERKINS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 10:30:30

E. Perkins, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset; born in Sullivan county, New Hampshire, May 30, 1810; he emigrated to Ohio when a young man, and was engaged in teaching school for several years; he came to this State in 1848, and to this county in 1849, and settled on the land where he now resides, and made the greater part of the improvements; he owns 207 acres of land, on which he has a valuable sugar maple grove, affording all the sugar and syrup they wish for home use; he married Miss Julia A. Ansley in February, 1850; she was born in
Pennsylvania, and died in December, 1867; he afterward married Mary A. Lukecart in 1869; she was born in Illinois; has one son by first marriage: Wesley J. C.; lost one daughter: Clara J., aged twelve years.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 620