Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

MORGAN B. PERRY was born in Henry County, Ky., July 4, 1820, a son of
Elijah and Ann (Bryan) Perry.  Elijah was a native of Virginia, a soldier
in the war of 1812, and was quite a trader and speculator.  He would load
a flatboat with provisions on the Kentucky River, take it up the Tennessee
and Cumberland Rivers and trade the produce for cotton; would then bring
the cotton to Henry County and sell it.  He was also extensively engaged in
farming and stock raising.  His father, Benjamin Perry, was born in
Virginia, immigrated to Kentucky in quite an early day, located in Woodford
County, but shortly after moved to Henry County and engaged in agricultural
pursuits and stock raising.  The mother of Morgan B. Perry was born in
Fayette County, Ky., and was an inmate of the fort at the time it was
besieged by Simon Girty.  She was a daughter of Morgan and Mildred
(Simpson) Bryan; was twice married, the second time to a nephew of Daniel
Boone; was a member of the Christian Church, and died January 21, 1887, at
the advance age of ninety-eight years.  Her father, Morgan Bryan, was one
of the pioneers of Henry County, and owned a large tract of land near New
Castle.  Morgan B. Perry was born at Port Royal, Ky., reared in New Castle
and received a good common school education.  When young he learned the
saddle and harness trade, at which he has always worked.  In 1842 he went
to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained two years; thence to New Orleans,
Memphis, St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn., and many other Southern cities;
subsequently located Aberdeen, Miss., and married Narcissa B. Ragdale of
that place.  After a residence there of ten years he moved to Louisville,
Ky., remained four years, and then returned to New Castle, Henry County.
During the civil war Mr. Perry was a Unionist, and was employed by the
Government at Nashville, Tenn., to manufacture saddles and harness, and
shortly after was appointed to a clerkship which he held until the war
closed.  He now has a saddle and harness store, and shoe and boot business
in New Castle, where he does a fine trade, and is the owner of several
houses and lots in that town.  Mr. and Mrs. Perry have three children:
Orlenda, Anna and Mattie W.  Mr. Perry's brother, Elijah, runs a steamboat
on the Mississippi, Black and Red Rivers, and makes annual visits to his
old home.  Two other brothers of Mr. Perry, James and Benjamin, the former
of whom emigrated to California in 1849, and was a member of a company who
went from Mississippi through by land, and were six months on the way, died
a few years ago in Stockton, Cal., and Benjamin served a while in the
Confederate Army in the latter part of the war, and when the war was over
he married and settled down in Sevier County, Ark., where he died a few
years ago.

Perry Bryan Simpson Bryan Boone Ragdale
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Woodford-KY Fayette-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH
Nashville-Davidson-TN Stockton-San_Joaquin-CA Sevier-AR Memphis-Shelby-TN
New_Orleans-Orleans-LA MS VA MO

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