William Francis Perkins

1840 - 1876  (35 years)

• Name	William Francis Perkins
  Birth	25 May 1840	Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Gender	Male
  Census	21 Aug 1850	Needham, Norfolk, MA ; age 10, born MA, living with parents
  Census	Sep 1855	Needham, Norfolk, MA ; W.F., age 15, born MA, living with father
  Death	17 Jan 1876	New Orleans, Orleans, LA
  Burial		Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
  Person ID	I17035	Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 May 2018

  
  

  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

  
  

  Family	Anna O Evans,   b. 1837, New Orleans, Orleans, LA d. 24 Jul 1919, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 82 years)
  Children	1. Herbert Zalmon Evans Perkins,   b. 27 Sep 1868, New Orleans, Orleans, LA d. 19 Mar 1935, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 66 years)   2. Ethel Willia Perkins,   b. 2 May 1871, New Orleans, Orleans, LA d. 15 Oct 1968, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 97 years)
  Family ID	F8019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 May 2018

  
  

• Headstones

  Perkins & Evans Family Mausoleum WILLIAM F. PERKINS / a native of Boston / Born May 25, 1840. / Died Jan. 17, 1876. ANNA O. EVANS / WIFE OF WILLIAM F. PERKINS / 1837 - 1919 ETHEL WILLIA PERKINS / 1871 - 1968 [locacted in Cyress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans, Orlean, LA]

  
  

• Notes

  from "The New Orleans Times-Picayune", 18 Jan 1876 (newspapers.com) PERKINS - On Monday, January 17, at 1 o'clock, P.M., Major WM. F. PERKINS, aged thirty-six years, a native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of this city since 1865. His funeral will take place This (Tuesday) Evening, a 1 o'clock, from this late residence, Napoleon Avenue, corner Perrier street, Sixth District. His friends and those of his bothers-in-law, Wm. M. and Herbert Evans, and the members of Lin Wood Lodge, are invited to attend. New York and Boston papers please copy. from "The New Orleans Republican", 26 Jan 1876 (newspapers.com) The Late Major Perkins The Boston Traveller of the eighteenth says: Intelligence announcing the death of Major William F. Perkins, at New Orleans, Louisiana, has just been received. Major Perkins was a son of the late Henry G. Perkins, of this city, who was the first cashier of the Western railroad, and was well known in that position. which he held for many years. Major Perkins, in the early days of the late war, enlisted from Boston, and went out in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment. He served during the larger part of his time under McClellan. Near the close of the war he was very severely wounded and was taken up for dead. After the war he removed to New Orleans and there married Miss Evans, and at the time of his death was serving at the New Orleans Customhouse. He was a twin brother of Captain F.W. Perkins, who was on the the staff of General Hooker, and served through the war, dying at New Orleans about two years ago. Both were brothers of Mrs. C.B. Patten , of this city.