Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.

PERRY FAMILY.  Lewis Perry was born in Culpeper County, Va., about 1754 and
was twice married, the last time to Jane Bourne of the same county, and
immigrated to the State of Kentucky in 1784 with Jeffersonian ideas of
government and settled in the county of Woodford to the occupation of
farming, where by industry and economy he was enabled to leave a handsome
estate to his family.  The old gentleman was of Revolutionary stock, and
loved to tell his descendants of Washington and Lafayette.  He died about
1830, and was buried in Woodford on his estate; having one son by his first
marriage, whose descendants are now settled in the counties of Bath and
Owen, and one son, John Perry, and several daughters by his last wife. John
Perry, born in 1782, at maturity settled in Jessamine County, taught school
for several years, and it was the boast of the old gentleman that he had
turned off so many efficient and good citizens from his school.  He
married, in his adopted county, Sarah Lowen in 1802, and went to farming,
but such was his business methods that he was soon made magistrate for
many years, and then high sheriff and also administrator of many estates,
all of which he wound up without contention or broils, which was a great
solace to the old gentleman.  In his latter days he engaged in the
manufacturer of bagging and rope in connection with farming after he quit
public business.  He was a gentleman of the Old Virginia type, known by
his neighbors as Squire Perry.  In politics he was of the Calhoun school,
believing the Federal Government the creature and the States the creator,
with the reserved rights to judge of infraction, and to be absolved.  He
died at the ripe age of eighty-four years in 1866, his wife, Sarah Perry,
surviving a couple of years, and dying in 1868 at the ripe age of
eighty-four years.  She was a member of the Reformed Church, and was always
wont to remember the poor.  The aged couple had eleven children--seven boys
and four daughters--five sons and two daughters survived them.  Among them
Oliver H. Perry, born March 11, 1815, and now resident in the county of
Jessamine, the county of his fathers.  In early days he went to northeast
Missouri, and was there engaged in farming on the then frontier.  Came back
to Kentucky in 1842 and engaged in the manufacture of bagging and rope.
March 24, 1846, he was married to Fannie, daughter of Robert and Mary
(Sappington) Scott, born respectively in Pennsylvania and Maryland.  Mrs.
Perry was born in Jessamine County March 26, 1817, and died April 9, 1882.
Her mother was a lady of extensive reading, and her grandfather, Dr.
Richard Sappington, was a surgeon during the entire Revolutionary war and
lived and died in the State of Maryland, near Harve de Grace.  To the
marriage of O. H. and Fannie Perry were born two sons: Robert S., May 27,
1848, and John, August 13, 1849.  Since his marriage Mr. Perry has been
engaged in cultivating his farm, being what is known as a part of Camp
Nelson, and he and his wife have belonged to the Presbyterian Church since
1846.  In politics he is classed with his ancestors that legislation should
be in the interest of the poor and religion in looking after the poor.
Robert Scott Perry was born on his father's farm five and one-half miles
south of Nicholasville, and is the eldest son of Oliver H. and Fannie
(Scott) Perry, natives of Jessamine County.  John the youngest, was born at
the same place as their maternal grandfather, Robert Scott, son of
John 2/9 Scott, a Pennsylvanian by birth and a remarkable man in the
pioneer days of Jessamine County for energy and push, being a large trader
to New Orleans by means of flatboats, returning on foot through what they
termed the wilderness.  He left a vast estate, having only 2 shillings
and 9 pence when he came to Kentucky, which he even made his middle name
and was ever after know as John 2/9 in all instruments in writing.  He
represented Jessamine County in the Legislature in early times; he has but
one son now living (1887) Hervey Scott, full of years and full of esteem.
Robert S. and John Perry were brought on a farm and received a common
school education, attended the Wesleyan University a short time and
returned to the farm.  Robert S., in 1878, was elected county clerk over
Robert Price, a Republican, by a small majority, the parties then being
nearly on a balance; in 1882 he was elected by a good majority, and in
1886 he was again elected by a large majority, making three successive
terms that he has been elected county clerk; the last expires in 1890.  He
was married, December 14, 1876, to Miss Belle Peyton, of Madison County,
Ky.  The following are the names of his children: John, born May 3, 1878;
Peyton, September 17, 1880, and Charley, May 12, 1883.  John Perry, the
youngest son of O. H. and Fannie Perry, is an energetic farmer at Camp
Nelson, Ky., and was married to Tabitha Roberts, of Jessamine County, May
29, 1872.  They have one son and three daughters: Robert S., Pearl,
Ellen and Fannie Perry.

Perry Lowen Bourne Sappington Scott Peyton Roberts Price
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Nicholasville-Jessamine-KY Madison-KY Bath-KY Owen-KY Culpeper-VA
MO PA MD

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