Mary A. (McGee) Perkins (1926)

PERKINS, MCGEE, KALE, PEED, MCNEIL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 1/7/2006 at 14:05:40

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 23, 1926
Page 1, Column 1

MRS. MARY PERKINS DIES

The Daughter of Pioneers Who Lived a Life of Usefulness

Mrs. Mary A. Perkins, a resident of Madison County for more than 72 years, died at the Des Moines Methodist Hospital Mon. after an illness of eight weeks. Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. D. J. Shen-ton and burial made in the family burial plot in the Winterset Cemetery.

Mary A. McGee, daughter of M. M. and Caroline Kale McGee, was born at Eddyville, Iowa, Dec. 18, 1853, and departed this life at the Des Moines Methodist Hospital on September 20th, 1926, at the age of 72 years, 9 months and 2 days.

With her parents, she came to Madison County in 1854, the family locating on what is now known as the McKray farm in Jackson townshihp. Soon afterward they moved to Douglas township and improved the farm now known as the Carey farm.

On November 22nd, 1876, Mary A. McGee was married to Carson F. Perkins, who died May 2nd, 1899. Two children, Matt M. Perkins of Des Moines and Mrs. Caroline McNeil of Indianola, remain. Also two brothers, John McGee of Blackwell, Oklahoma and I. L. McGee of Edgewater, Colorado. Her only sister, Mrs. Rebecca Peed, died February 18th, 1926.

Mrs. Perkins, herself the daughter of pioneers, saw the country develop from prairie and wilderness with scattered settlers, to the civilization and development of the present day.

Her parents home was one of those in which the colored refugees found a shelter and a haven in the stirring period preceding the Civil War. She took a deep interest in public affairs of her state and her country, and perhaps few so busily and actively engaged as she, were better informed in national and world affairs.

Devoted to her friends and loved ones, she goes to her reward, honored, respected and loved. A life of active, conscientious endeavor is closed but her goodly influence will remain.

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