Notes for: Harmon A PERKINS

Marriage record: film #1275715 item 2-3. Harmon Perkins/ Cornelia Dwnnel/ 27 May 1859/ Vol. 1 pg. 31.. Waupaca Co. index to marriages 1853-1907. He was a Civil War Vet: Battalion: 38th Wisconsin Infantry, Company B volunteer.. Pvt. Enlisted :14 Sep 1846 aand mustered out: 9 May 1865. He was sick. Harmon was buried in IOOF # 25 Crabill Lot. Charged to G.A.R. Fund. (Senility). Film # 0020307 H-R. He was 80 yrs, 4 mos 19 days. They settled on their homestead in 1874...they had to leave for 2 months because of the NezPerce Indian War. (From a letter dated 23 Dec 1877). Death cert: Oregon state #112, local reg. # 73. When they left Wisconsin it took 6 months with two team of oxen and 2 covered wagons in 1862...there were 3 families...Perkins & Fergasons and the third ? Blanche (Dan's mother) says Harmon was sickly as a child...while moving from Vt to Wisc. (13), his family left him iwth a farm family (others say he was apprenticed to a copper) to work, while they went on in wagon train. He, Harmon, fllowed them and caught up to them at a river in Nebraska. He had wolked so long he had no shoes. skin fell off feet. (Notes from Anita Pratt Perkins)