Re: John Wrightsell, Orange Co. NC.
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Re: John Wrightsell, Orange Co. NC.
8/27/00
The name Wrightsell/Reitzel is on my tree through the Perkins line.
William Henry Perkins, b. January 12, 1812, Mecklenburg, Co. VA., d. July 11, 1896, Williston, Fayette, Co., TN., married: Sarah Wrightsell on November 11, 1841, Fayette Co., TN.
Fayette Co., TN. Newspaper Obituaried, Vol. 1, 1840-1920, p. 75-76
Somerville Reporter and Falcon
Perkins, Mr. W. H. SR., died Saturday morning, the 11th inst at his home near Williston, after a illness of about 4 weeks, aged 84 years and six months. He had been a resident of Fayette County for 60 years and for 54 years of that time had occupied the home where his death occurred. He leaves four children, three sons, and one daughter, one son and daughter living in Arkansas, a son in St. Louis and W H. Perkins, Jr, who lived with his father. He was buried Sunday morning at shady Grove burying ground. Religious services were conducted at the grave by Rev. R.B. Cavett, who just six months before had condusted at the same place the funeral services of his wife, who also died on Saturday morning and was buried on Sunday morning.
(Note: Buried Shady Grove Cemetery, Jan. 12, 1812-July 11, 1896)
Sarah Wrightsell was born July 11, 1817,
Chatham Co., NC. and died July 18, 1896, Fayette Co., TN. Buried in the Shady Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., TN.
On the 1860 Fayette Co., TN. census it has Sarah Wrightsell's parents living with them.
Her father John Wrightsell, age 78, would be born 1782, NC. and wife Sarah age 75 would be born 1785 in NC.
Ten years earlier, 1850 Fayette Co., TN. census it has them listed:
John Rightsell, 67, M, Farming, 400 NC
Sarah,65, F,NC
Frances M.19, F,Tenn
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