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The Poultney Journal
 Poultney, Rutland County

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~Perkins Research~

The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - May 3rd, 1878

One of our oldest citizens, Mr. RALPH PERKINS, died Saturday and was buried Sunday. The funeral was held in the new Methodist church at 4 p.m. Our good brother Clark preached the sermon from the 1st Peter, 1:24,25. Mr. Perkins has lived in this town for 70 years, and has reared a family of ten children, among the number is the Rev. James Perkins who is well known in this vicinity.
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - December 5th, 1884

Mrs. Henry Haywood, an estimable lady, a daughter of Moses Perkins, and sister of Henry O. Perkins and Moses Perkins, died on Tuesday, after suffering several weeks of acute disease, at the age of 67. She was well known to many readers of The Journal. She leaves a husband and three children, the wives of John B. Reynolds, Henry C. Haywood of Rutland and Charles R. Haywood of Burlington. The funeral was largely attended on Thursday, and the burial made in Evergreen cemetery.
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - October 18th, 1889

FLETCHER G. PERKINS, only son of John F. and Laura Perkins, died at ten o'clock Monday morning of typhoid fever, after an illness of eight weeks. He would have been fourteen years of age on the 29th of this month. He was one of the brightest boys I have ever met, always pleasant and civil to those that were civil to him, and was a general favorite with his schoolmates. It is a heavy blow to his parents, more so as he was the only child at home, and, being the youngest, made him more dear to them. They have sympathyy of a large circle of friends, and none will mourn his loss more than myself. The funeral took place at 1:30 P.M. Wednesday from the house. Rev., Mr. Bigelow of Fair Haven officiating. And so we have laid to rest all that is left of a once bright and promising boy, and never shall we forget the day that three words, "three awful words" were spoken, "Fletcher is dead".
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - March 26th, 1897

RUTLAND - MOSES J. PERKINS, died at his home on Grove street Tuesday morning after a sickness of about five months. He had been in ill health for three years, but had only been confined to his home since October. Mr. Perkins was seventy-two years old and was one of the oldest residence of Rutland, having lived here about sixty-seven years. He was a farmer and extensive dealer in real estate. He had been a member of the Congregational church for forty years. Mr. Perkins leaves a wife and three children, Mrs. Jennie M. Parmenter,  Alvin D. Perkins and Mrs. H. C. Brown, all of Rutland. The funeral will be held at the parlors of the Congregational church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - April 1st, 1898

RUTLAND - has lost by death its oldest business man, LYMAN PERKINS, who died at the age of eighty-three. Mr. Perkins was born at East Middlebury in 1815 and came to Rutland in 1864. He first conducted a restaurant on Main street which, at that time was the only business portion of the city. This business was conducted for four or five years, when Mr. Perkins moved down town at started the first grocery store on Wales street in the wooden building near the Berwick House. The grocery business was continued until 1880, when Mr. Perkins founded the Rutland Fire Clay company which he managed until he retired from business. Mr. Perkins funeral was held Wednesday afternoon. He is survived by a wife and five children.
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT -January 6th, 1899

Mrs. JULIA PERKINS, died suddenly on Thursday afternoon of heart failure. She was 68 years of age. Mrs. Perkins hand not been feeling well for several days, but seemed better Thursday and no special anxiety was felt in regard to her. Late in the afternoon one of the family found her in the parlor by one of the windows, where she had evidently grasped one of the curtains in falling. It was hoped at first that she could be brought to consciousness, bit it was soon found that life had gone. This is the fourth death in the family circle during the last five months.
   Hiram Ainsworth died suddenly in August, a few weeks later his wife was taken after an illness of a few months, and a short time after Mrs. Chipman, sister of Mrs. Perkins died suddenly at Bridport. Mrs. Julia Perkins was born at Bridport in 1830, for some years was a student of the old seminary here at Castleton from which institution she graduated. Her name before marriage was Julia Wilcox. After her marriage to Dr. GRIDLEY PERKINS, son of Dr. Joseph Perkins, she spent a part of her life at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Part of her early married life was spent in Castleton, during which time she assisted her husband in the practice of medicine, later entering the medical profession herself, in which capacity she acted successfully both here and for some time in New York city. The past few years Mrs. Perkins has made her home with her daughter in this place, but owing to the sad changes of last months was planning to leave Castleton in the spring. She was a woman of strong character, gifted with much intellectual ability. She is survived by two sons, Moss Kent Perkins of New York city and William Perkins of New Mexico; and sister, Mrs. Emma Lewis Pierce, and one brother, Edwin Wilcox of Port Henry.
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The Poultney Journal - Poultney, Rutland Co., VT - June 8th, 1900

                DEATH OF EDITOR PERKINS

Former Editor of the Rutland Herald, ROBERT A. PERKINS, died suddenly at his summer cottage at Shrewsbury point on Sunday morning of heart trouble. A few minutes before his death Mrs. Perkins having left his beside heard him groan and immediately hastened upstairs where she found him in the midst of a severe attack with which he had been troubled and hastening outdoors rang a large bell as a sign of distress. A party of fishermen hastened to her assistance, but when they arrived at the cottage they found him beyond help and soon expired.
   Robert A. Perkins was born in Pomfret, December 19th, 1846. A large portion of his life was devoted to newspaper work. Since 1890 he was manager and editor in chief of the Rutland Herald until October 1st, 1899, when owing to ill health he resigned. He was a strong and caustic writer, and pursued his subject with tenacity and sincerity to the end. No one can question his honesty of purpose, in whatever he attempted. His exposure of the working of the prohibition law and his continued and bitter attack upon the hypocrisy and deceit of its supporters made him many enemies. Still even his enemies admired his undaunted courage and were forced to admit that he was in the right. He did more to open the eyes of the masses as to the real workings of the prohibition law through the columns of the Herald than all the newspapers of the state combined. They all knew that he was a republican, a strictly temperance man himself and that he was honest in all he had to say. He was no respecter of person, if he leaned either way it was in favor of the poor man or woman as against the rich or those who held high official positions. His death will be regretted by a host of friends especially the newspaper fraternity.
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