John Perrin 1774-1866

PERRIN

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Date: 8/9/2006 at 21:09:21

Davenport Daily Gazette; Tuesday Morning, January 23, 1866:

Perrin

An Old Pioneer Gone

Our obituary column this morning contains a notice of the death of Mr. John Perrin, one of the real pioneers of the west. Mr. P. came to Scott county in 1842, but commenced his pioneer life long years before, having left Massachusetts, his native State, and reached Cincinnati when the wigwams of the red man yet rested on the present site of that city. Then, after the lapse of a few years, Mr. Perrin followed the first wave of advancing civilization into Indiana; taking his family down the Ohio on a raft and reaching his Hoosier home before the Indians had fully vacated their old haunts.

Mr. P. was for sixty years a consistent member of the Baptist church, and ever an earnest Whig and Republican; voting at every election even up to that of last fall, when at his earnest request, he was carried to the polls from his bed. His aged widow still survives him, but is quite ill and daily expecting to follow her departed husband to the glorious rest prepared for the people of God. Mr. Perrin was buried at Blue Grass yesterday.

Mr. P. was one of the oldest subscribers to the Gazette, having been upon its subscription books from its first number, twenty-five years ago, to the time of his death.

Died - At Blue Grass, Scott county, on Thursday morning, Jan. 21st, John Perrin, 91 years, one month and three days.

[note: Blue Grass Cemetery, Blue Grass, Scott Co., Iowa: Perrin, John; b. 1774; d. Jan. 18, 1866]