Harriet May “Hattie” Perkins

1876 - 1940  (63 years)

• Name	Harriet May Perkins
  Nickname	Hattie
  Birth	17 Oct 1876	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT
  Gender	Female
  Census	1881	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT ; age 4, born ONT, living with parents
  Census	27 Apr 1891	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT ; age 14, born ONT, living with parents
  Census	1901	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT ; age 24, born 17 Oct 1876 in ONT, living with parents
  Naturalization	15 Apr 1918	Detroit, Wayne, MI ; Declaration of Intention, born 17 Oct 1876 in Petrolia, 5'4", 115 lbs, brown hair, grey eyes
  Census	7 Jan 1920	Detroit, Wayne, MI ; age 44, born CAN, single, imm in 1906, stenographer at advertising co, living with parents
  Census	14 Apr 1930	Highland Park, Wayne, MI ; age 53, born CAN, single, imm in 1910, copy writer for advertising firm, living with widowed mother
  Death	7 May 1940	Rockwood, Wayne, MI
  Burial	9 May 1940	Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI
  Person ID	I1367	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	3 May 2022

  
  

  Father	William Alonzo Perkins,   b. 15 Sep 1845, Sparta, Elgin, ONT d. 9 Dec 1920, Detroit, Wayne, MI (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Almeda Catherine Thomas,   b. 15 Jan 1856, Stoney Creek, Wentworth, ONT d. 6 Dec 1932, Dexter, Washtenaw, MI (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1874	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT
  Notes	from Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 (Ancestry.com) On 2 May 1874 in Petrolia, marriage of Alonzo Perkins, age 27 yrs, of Petrolia, born Sparta ONT, bachelor, merchant, son of Wm F and Hannah Perkins and Almeda M Thomas, 18 yrs. of Petrolia, born Stoney Creek ONT, spinster, dau of William and Ann Thomas. Witness Cyrus F Perkins and Herman Ermy (?).
  Family ID	F301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Death posted in St. Thomas Times-Journal 1940. Probably never married. from "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950" (ancestry.com) Harriet Mae Perkins, single, secretary at McManus Adv. Co., born 17 Oct 1876 in Petrolia CAN to William A Perkins b. CAN & Almeda C Thomas b. CAN, died on 7 May 1940 in Rockwood, Wayne, MI of chronic myocarditis. Burial on 9 May at Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI. Informant Mrs. Frank E. Dow of same address. from The Detroit Free Press", 9 May 1940 (newspapers.com) Miss Harriet Mae Perkins. Services at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Alfred E. Crosby Mortuary, 13308 Woodward, conducted by the Rev. Hillyer H. Straton, D.D. Burial in Woodlawn. Born in Petrolia, Ont. Oct. 17, 1876, Miss Perkins died Tuesday in her home in Rockwood, Mich. She lived in the Detroit area 30 years.