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My great-grandfather was George Washington Perry. He changed his name from Rabon to Perry when he joined the Union Army. I have all of his military records. He was discharged from the Union Army at Helena, returned to Peach Creek to get his family (his wife Martha and his son William Wesley Perry), the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee where they stayed until the grandmother who raised me was born in 1877. They left Memphis and moved to Perry County, Arkansas to a little place called Redemption where Grandpa George was a deacon at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. He was injured (leg) in the Civil War and died at age 57. He was buried in the church yard there but the state put a watershed there and all of the graves and the church where the graveyard stood was washed into the river. However, the government sent the tombstone several years after his death and it is on Grandma Martha's grave (his wife) over in Conway County. My great-grandpa George's mother's name was Emmaline. I found where his brother Creedy was married in Shelby County and George was his security. My great-grandparents' children were William Wesley Perry,born in 1861 on the Peach Creek Plantation, Baby Hannah Perry who died on the plantation and was buried there. These are the children born in Memphis: Ellen Perry (married a Rev. Tom Anderson), Sarah Elizabeth Clark, Charles Baker Perry,Emmaline Perry Bennett Little, Mattie Perry Cyrus Brown. The last child, John Henry Perry, was born in Arkansas. William Wesley Perry married Georgia Ward and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he was a printer and the pastor of Compton Avenue Baptist Church.
I guess the name must be coincidental. You see my great-grandmother Martha - George's wife, lived until 1926 and used to babysit my mother, her sister and brother. George's youngest daughter raised me to adulthood after my mother died and she kept a written family journal from 1906 through 1965. I transcribed it and am donating it to the local historical society. My grandmother and her sister met one of my great-grandfather's nieces from Texas when Uncle William Wesley got sick in St. Louis. I am in contant touch with his family. His daughters are dead but he has about a zillion grand chidlren and great-grandchildren.
Thank you for replying but from what you say, it doesn't sound like the same person.
Maggie Ponds Banks
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