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Show -2- (Continued) FANILY RECORD OF BRIGIiAIvI Y. PEl1KINS, My father, Jesse Petillo Perkins 1925. 15 Jan. Arizona. Ta.ylor, J was Perkins, Sr., sixth Nelson son of Reuben and Elizabeth County, Ten.."1es see, born i Jackson . li-..:-ed with his parents until Yv'ith brother, older an over 19 years of age, Perkins, John family and he and his brother John built theBselves sixby per acre, er t s and of land acres 2 - each, signed by President eighties, on good homes sheepskin paper - we Co. 1843. one our c.nd $1.25 for sa.me family ::hore· ..... hundred of fath- The'se deeds ' he 'when he w?r:t Missouri, J for the hold in now 18:38, entering -- deeds Tyler, April 1, John about Grundy to getting government and or 19, 1819 wher e Feb. under Lock ky. My grandfather, out in Jackson Co his two sons, hone one on his two , , Reuben Perkins I'enn , , and sixty hundred and and to mov ed who fa:nily, Grundy Oo , , were, Missouri, locating close family govcr nmerrb deeds for the getting acres, sold sti 11 at home, and there he also built himself and Jesse, John and J a same tc good as had done. sons After Grandfather had moved from Tennessee to Missouri and had made his home there, he heard of the Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois John Taylor, Wilford by them, he was the true and to see Vfoodruff and ful'ly the and that "horseback" from Vlhen he met Prophet. Joseph Smith, others, and after being treated very kindly convinced that Ih-ing God, and went Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Sith so-called VIaS in very deed "Mormonism" was truly a Prophet of Gospel of the Jesus Christ the Son of God. Nif father, true Jesse Nelson of Eh e Prophet Jesus Christ of birthday), by ed the . Gospel the Perkins Lord, stepped f'o rwar d Latter-day one of hi s , Saints older and had been I'am.i.Iy Perkins, being convnced that Joseph Smith in his bap t i zed wa s Huston in Hancock Co gr-andpar errb s , , , a into the Church of Grundy County, r.:issouri, 19 brothers, And r evr baptized including and was Perkins, Illinois, Ute and Sarah Feb. 18·18 '\"JlO had (his rcceiv- "lith others of Perkins, and thci: |
