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Mississippi Families
John Essary of Alcorn Co., MS and Wives
Eavia Carter and India Blackwood
The following was found in Usry Bulletin #140, page 2. There is no proof this information is correct.
John Essary wrote letters during 1870 and 1871 from Alcorn Co., MS to various family members. John was born about 1780 or 1784 and died May 31, 1872. It is believed he was
married three times and had 19 children:
Anna Essary b. Nov 16, 1805
Elizabeth Essary b. Apr. 24, 1808
Thomas Essary b. Dec. 19, 1810
_____ Essary b. March 13, 1813
Nancy Essary b. July 18, 1815
By his second wife Eavia Carter, he had the following children:
Dicey Essary b. Jan 2, 1820
Nathan Essary b. July 30, 1822
David Essary b. Nov 1, 1825
Andrew Essary b. June 17, 1827
Levi Ezra Essary b. Aug 10, 1828
Benjamin Essary by. Dec. 30, 11829
Leda Essary b. Dec 10, 1831
Joseph R. Essary b. Nov. 11, 1835
Mancey Essary b. Oct. 30, 1838
Solom Essary b. Oct. 25, 1842
William Essary b. Dec. 3, 1844
This information was taken from a Bible Leaf
These names were in letters written by John Essary from Mississippi to Joseph Essary who lived in Salade, TX in 1870:
Daniel Essary, lived in Alcorn City, MS on June 20, 1871
H.C. Essary, Lone Elm, TN, Aug. 6, 1870
John Essary, Aug 1870, lived in Illinois
Nathan Essary, Lone Elm, TN
Benjamin Essary lived in Madreds Bend, MS
Levi Essary served as a Private in the Confederate Army in Capt. Eli Tool's Company, Texas Vol. Inf, age 34. Enrolled July 9, 1962, in San Antonion, TX by E. Toole. In Sept. and
Oct. 1862, company muster rolls listed him as a private of Co. I, 3rd Reg., Texas Infantry.
The seven known generations reported to Mr. John Usry for his bulletin were:
1. John Essary born 1780-1784, died May 31, 1872 in MS or TN. First wife unknown, second wife,Eavi Carter. Third wife India Blackwood (Burrow), born 7 Feb 1812, died Feb 1,
1899.
2. Levi E. Essary, born Aug 10, 1828. Believed to have died in Bell County. Married at least twice.
3. Melissia Jane Essary, born July 7, 1857, died June 7, 1935. Husband, Thomas William Griffin. born Nov. 5, 1936, died Jan. 6, 1916. Buried in Killeen Cemetery.
4. Jessie Levi Griffin, born Oct. 11, 1895, died Dec. 22, 1963. Wife, Lue Rena Sims, b. March 7, 1900, died July 10, 1972. Buried in Resthaven Cemetery off I-35 between Belton
and Salade, TX.
5. Juanita Griffin, b. Feb. 23, 1923. Husband, Claude EArl Duncan b. Feb 22, 1917
John Essary Letters
Usry Bul #141. From Mrs. Jaunita Duncan
State of Mississippi, Alcorn County, May 17th 1870: Dear Children, I once moew this side of the grave take this opertunity of writing you a few lines where I am and how I am getting
along. I am on the old place we left when we went to that county. I am not verry well nor do I ever expect to be in this life for my age and everything says so. I would like to here from
you all verry well. When you write direct your letter to Kossuth, Miss. Our county has been divided and this part is call Alcon after our Govenor. My dear children I have a claim of
land in that Contery. John Dabley was to locate it and it was to be good farming land and was to give me a title to it. I was to give him half of it. I was to have choice of half and I want
Joseph Sollomon and William to have the land and to take it and use it and see they fall not out by the way for I never shal need any more land, only about four by Six feet. I will say
no more only may the God of piece rest and remain on you all and when the last trumpet shal sound and the Savior shall come to collect his fruits to take them we may all be ready
to strike hands on the banks of Sweet deliverance where they will be no more.
here the tears is wiped Eyes high up in heaven in that for the saints of our god I still Father John Essary.
State of Mississippi, Alcorn County, August 6, 1870
Dear sons and Daughters & Connection generally: It is through the mercis of kind provider that I am spared to write to you one time moore. I received your letter baring date June
the 2nd which found all as well as common and this leaves all well the Connection Generlly, you sayed you wanted to know where all the boys was. John is in Illinois. I don't recolect
his post office. Nathan is in Tennisee Lone Elm post office. Benjamin is in what is called Madreds Bend on the Miss. River. I believe his post office is Tiptonville, Tenn. You wanted to
know how I managed to amake a living. I only have to throw myself on the charity of my firends. I don't work but little. I do little jobs about the place. You said something about my
land being sold and me living on the money. I need the money if I could get it. If you and the boys think I ought to have it, you can sell the land for the best price, and you can send
me some of the money occassionally. If you send money by the mail you had better register your letter and then the post office is bound for it. I would like to know how near the
nearest railroad is to you and where it terminates at each end. You wrote that I said I was going to start for Texas. I thought at the time that I would for I can think how I had come to
that country and it seems like I would come again, but when I started from Tenn. down here I found that I could not stand the trip unless I could come some other way besides in a
wagon. There is nothing strange in this country. Corn crop is goo; cotton, bad. May the God of the Union sheild and protect you all is the prayer of your aged father. Write soon.
John Essary. To his sons and daughters and connections.
State of Miss., Alcorn Co., June 20, 1871. Dear Sons & Daughters and Connections. It is through the mercies of god that I am spared to write you one time more and lot you know I
am well as common. We received your letter Baring the date the 25th of March and was glad to here from you. We have nothing strange to write to you. We have had a very wet
spring though crops looks tolerable well. As to that land matter I have allready Directed you how to manage that, the hundred acres that I reserved for my wife. If she doesn ot come
to that contiry you may give it to your Daughter. It is too small a matter to be Dividing. Jo I would like to know how game is in that contery. Bufalow, Bare, Deere and all sorts of
game. I have set a day to leave this Contery to go to Nathans the 15th of September. David has agreed to take me there and if you dont write to me before then and I live my post
office will be Lone Elm. So I will close by saying if I see you no more m y prayer to god is that we may meed beyond this trublesom worlds in that house not made with hands high up
in heaven where parting will be no more. John Essary to his children.
Lone Elm, Tenn., June the 31st, 1872. Dear Brother: I Seat My Self Down to Inform you wee are all weel as coomon hoping Tees few lines May Reach you Saft and Sound anf ind
you all well & Doing Well......than father is dead, he died May 31, 1872. I received your letter you written to father. I was glad to hear from you. You wanted to know in your letter
someting about the land. You will have to find out what you can do with it and what is the best to do and then if I can be any help to you I am ready at any time to do all for you I can.
I have been appointed administrator by the court to attend to something concerning his pension claim. You get up the certificate and see what you can do with it and if you need my
assistance you can let me know too. I want to ......may if you......is there and how close to you are together. I want you to write to me as soon as you get this letter and all about what
you can do. So I must close. Let me hear from you soon. I remain yours asever, H.C. Essary.
Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins
It is believed by some Perkins researchers that Jean Johnson was the MOTHER of Joseph, and was Samuel's wife. For more information about this theory, visit: Also see John
Perkins Family of Virginia, Kentucky, & Missouri
Mary Pauline Ussery was born July 11, 1796 in Montgomery County, NC to Peter Ussery and Amelia Jarvis.. She died about 1855 in Oktibbeha County, Miss. On July 12, 1812 in
Pulaski, Giles Co., TN she married Joseph Perkins, who was born November 27, 1784 to Samuel Perkins . He died February 14, 1847 in Oktibbeha County, Miss.
Joseph was among the first tax payers in the present-day Lowndes County, MS. In 1821 he paid taxes for one white poll and five slaves in the amount of $5.25.
On Aug. 22, 1825, Joseph bought 79.98 acres of land in the W1/2 of the NW1/4 of Sect. 34, Twp 17 South, Range 17 West. By 1827 he owned 160 acres of land in the same
township and range.
The land records in Lowndes County reveal Joseph was planning to move to Oktibbeha County on Nov. 2, 1835 when he sold some of his land to William Kidd. He had completed
his move by June 21, 1836 when he sold the remainder of his land to William Kidd. The deed of 1835 had Joseph's residence as Lowndes County and the deed of 1836 had his
residence as Okitbbeha County.
It appears three of his sons, Alfred, Thomas and John moved to Oktibbeha County with Joseph in 1835 and his son. William moved there in 1836.(The Commercial Dispatch,
Columbus, MS, May 11, 1978)
In 1837, Joseph Perkins built a horse operated grist mill a mile and a half east of Sessums stands, which served the immediate neighborhood. About 1838 Joseph Perkins
established the first tanning yard in the county. It was not far from the grist mill. The Askew Crossing road passes north and south through the old site, and the right of way of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Starkville branch, runs through the northern end of it. Here Perkins bored a deep well, the first artesian well in Oktibbeha County.(Usry Bul #68 pg 6)
As a trade center, Agency, MS, (now abandoned) rivaled, perhaps exceeded Starkville in the middle 50's. It did not equal the county seat in number of stores, but surpassed it in
value of trade. Some of the store keepers were John Ussery Perkins, Dr. J.B. Perkins, Gordon Alston, Admiral Warren and Perkins and James. The physicians in Beat 5 during the
period around 1858 were: C.W. Jordan, Joseph B. Perkins, E.R. Burt, and J.G. Carroll. Perkins was the son of Joseph Perkins, who began his medical practice in 1852 and
continued actively in practice; he moved to Starkville in 1892. He died there in 1899. Carroll came from Carrollton, Alabama, in 1857 and practiced at the Choctaw Agency
community until 1894; then he moved to Starkville where he died in 1902.
Children of Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins:
Joseph Bolivar Perkins
Martha Perkins
Samuel Perkins
William Dixon Perkins
Alfred J. Perkins
Thomas G. Perkins b: Abt 1816 in Giles Co., TN mar. Mary A.H. Greer b: Feb 8, 1817 d: 1848 in Carroll County, MS m: Oct 15, 1838 in Lowndes Co, Miss
John Ussery Perkins
Lemuel Prewitt Perkins
Sarah Evalina Perkins
Peter Brandon Perkins
Jesse Perkins b: 1830
David Perkins b: 1838
Amanda Perkins b: 1841
Peter Brandon Perkins and Martha Jane Gooding Ussery
Peter Brandon Perkins was born to Joseph Perkins and Mary Pauline Ussery on Feb 10, 1826. He died about 1877 and is buried in Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas in the Old
Shamrock Cemetery. (Source: Jess Freer ) On Feb 1, 1848 he married his cousin Martha Jane Goodwin Ussery. Martha was born July 27, 1827 in Mississippi to Samuel Ussery and
Mary Shotwell. Martha died 1912 in Red River County, TX. in the Old Shamrock Cemetery.
Their Children:
Mary Catherine Perkins b: Dec 25, 1848 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS d: Jan 26, 1940 in Paris, Lamar Co., TX mar. James Edward Detherrow m: Nov 6, 1873
Henry Arthur Perkins b: Abt 1851 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
Joseph Albert Perkins b: 1852 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
Phylethia (Pelita) A. Perkins b: 1854 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
John Ussery Perkins b: 1856 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
Laura E. (Sally) Perkins b: 1858 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
David O. Perkins b: 1862 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS
Mary Catherine Perkins and James Edward Detherrow
Please contact Betsy B. Davis bowdavis@tenet.edu or Jess Freer flash@neto.com if you have any info on this family.
Mary Catherine Perkins was born Dec 25, 1848 in Perkinsville, Lowndes Co, MS to Martha Goodwin Ussery and Peter Brandon Perkins. She died Jan 26, 1940 in Paris, Lamar Co.,
TX. On Nov 6, 1873, she married James Edward Detherrow who was born Mar. 5, 1847 and died Sept. 14, 1896. Their Children:
Mary Goodwin Detherrow b: Oct 11, 1874 d. Jun 21, 1946, mar. Mar 13. 1901 to Thomas Henry Freer III, b Aug 21, 1871 d. Apr. 2, 1941.*
Hattie Ozella Detherrow b: Nov 22, 1875
Joseph Edward Detherrow b: Mar 2, 1877
James Perkins Detherrow b: Oct 24, 1878
Alice Gertrude Detherrow b: Feb 1, 1880
Ida Inez Detherrow b: Apr 3, 1881
Ellie Clatonia Detherrow b: Feb 13, 1883
Lelia Emma Detherrow b: Dec 14, 1884
Sallie Eulala Detherrow b: Sep 2, 1886
Beulah Beatrice Detherrow b: Aug 14, 1888
Viola Aleene Detherrow b: May 23, 1890
Essie Irene Detherrow b: Sep 2, 1892
William David Detherrow b. July 25, 1895
(*Anyone interested in obtaining more information on the Freer Family can contact Jess Freer )
William Dixon Perkins and Wives
William Dixon Perkins was born 1813 in Giles Co., TN to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins. He died in Oktibbeha County, Miss. His first wife was Mary Ann Ward who he
married on Dec 19, 1833. Their children were:
William Perkins b: 1836
Elizabeth Perkins b: 1837
Franklin Perkins b: 1839
James Perkins b: 1842
On Sept. 22, 1847, William married Elizabeth Taggart who was born 1825 in South Carolina. The only known child is:
Adella Perkins b: 1850
On January 7, 1834, William bought 40.17 acres of land in the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 35, Twp 16, Range 17 West. He sold the land two years later and moved to
Oktibbeha County where he appeared in the 1850 Census. William was one of the founders of the Starkville Baptist Church July 28, 1839
Alfred J. Perkins
Special Thanks to for the info on Alfred J. Perkins family!
Alfred J. Perkins was born about 1814 in Giles Co., TN to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins and died after Jan 20, 1873. He married Keziah/Kissiah Vaughn who was born
1816 in Giles Co., TN to John Vaughn and Ellizabeth Williamson. Keziah's siblings were: George Wilbur Vaughn who married Sarah Evalina Perkins; Henry Vaughn who married
Martha Jane "Mattie" Kidd and William W. Vaughn
Alfred and Keziah had the following children:
John Hardin Perkins b: 1836
William J. Perkins b: 1838
Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Perkins b: 1841
Samuel H. Perkins b: 1846
George Fletcher Perkins b: Jan 5, 1853
Alfred Perry Perkins b: Jan 3, 1855 mar. Mary Bennie Sparks
John Ussery Perkins
John Ussery Perkins was born Jan 2, 1818 in Monroe Co., MS to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins and died Feb 5, 1896 in Oktibbeha County, Miss. His first wife Mary was
born about 1825 in N.C. They had one known child:
Joseph Perkins b: 1849
The second wife of John Ussery Perkins was Jane (surname believed to be Ware). She was born Apr. 19, 1831 and died Sept. 6, 1898. They had one known child:
John Boliver Perkins b: Oct 15, 1859
Lemuel Prewitt Perkins
Lemuel Prewitt Perkins was born Feb 5, 1822 in Mississippi to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins. He died Jan 13, 1897 . On Oct. 2, 1844 in Lowndes Co., MS he married
Mary Louise Spence who was born 1825 in South Carolina. Their Children:
Ivanona Perkins b: 1845
Mary Perkins b: 1847
Samuel Perkins b: 1849
Sarah Evalina Perkins
Sarah Evalina Perkins was born July 28, 1825 in MS to Mary Pauline Ussery and Joseph Perkins and died Oct 4, 1891 in Lowndes Co, MS. On April 14, 1842 in Lowndes Co., MS,
she married George Wilbur Vaughn, son of John Vaughn and Elizabeth Williamson. George was born Dec 8, 1822 and died May 9, 1894 in Lowndes Co, MS. In 1850 George W.
Vaughn owned 240 acres of land valued at $800. His farming equipment was valued at $150. He owned 2 horses, 2 mules, 15 cows, 6 sheep and 20 hogs. He raised 20 bushels of
wheat, 600 bushels of Indian corn, 25 bushels of oats, 15 bushels of peas and beans, 4 bushels of Irish potatoes and 20 bushels of sweet potatoes. He ginned 14 bales of cotton
and produced 300 pounds of butter!
Their Children:
Rebecca Ann Vaughn b: 1843
Samuel S. Vaughn b: 1844
Joseph W. Vaughn b: 1846
Mary E. Vaughn b: 1848
John M. Vaughn b: 1850
Boliver Vaughn b: 1851
Amanda T. Vaughn b: Nov 15, 1853 d: Mar 27, 1905
Henry Luther Vaughn b: Mar 11, 1856 in MS d: Apr 4, 1892 in MS. Mar. Lilly Trigg b: Jan 13, 1857 in Tenn d: Abt 1885 in MS
Nancy Alice Vaughn b: Jan 21, 1858 d: Sep 15, 1894
George Parham Vaughn b: Mar 4, 1866 d: Sep 24, 1893