Henry Perkins

1822 - 1851  (28 years)

• Name	Henry Perkins
  Birth	3 Oct 1822	Cabot, Washington, VT
  Gender	Male
  Census	21 Aug 1850	Needham, Norfolk, MA ; age 27, born VT, living with parents
  Death	3 Mar 1851	Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Burial		St Mary's Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, MA
  Person ID	I17028	Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2019

  
  

  Father	Henry Griswold Perkins,   b. 14 Feb 1797, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 13 Sep 1856, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Louisa R Dutton,   b. 1802, Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 1853 (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	1821	Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, NH
  Family ID	F6543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  Henry Perkins Gravestone HENRY PERKINS / Oct. 3, 1822, / Mar. 3, 1851.

  
  

• Notes

  from "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988" (ancestry.com) Henry Perkins, age 28y 5m, a medical student, residing Needhan MA, born Cabot VT to Henry G & Louisa R Perkins, died 3 Mar 1850 in Boston MA of consumption. from "The Boston Recorder", 13 Mar 1851 (genealogybank.com) In Grantville, 3d inst., of consumption, HENRY, son of G. and Louisa R. Perkins, 28. Few have so bright a future overclouded; few pass away so unexpectedly, and few fall asleep in Jesus so cheerfully, so peacefully. Mr. P. graduated from Amherst College. In 1846, and was just completing his course of medical studies. His summons to depart broke suddenly on him, and but a few days before he went home; and though he had so many purposes to abandon and so many tender ties to a family, as yet unbroken, and to a large circle of friends who knew him only to love him, the next day after the fatal intelligence was given him, he was in a happy, waiting mood of one piety, of which he had been the hopeful subject from the age of twelve, new developed unexpected strength, maturity and activity. He dwelt on the promises, on the character of a gracious, sovereign idly obtaining new and glorious views. All reluctance, all fear was gone, and at last death not only gain no victory, but, by the grace in Christ, was forced to do a blessed service. And so his parents, having conducted and aided him through his course of study under many teachers, but especially under the Great Teacher, now rejoiced to think that his attainments, so high and noble, are not lost, but graciously transferred to another sphere.