Charles Grover
Perkins
1837 – 1911
Annie Terry
Perkins
1844 – 1899
Captain
Charles G. Perkins, aged 74, one of the best known steamboat men along the Ohio
River, died at his home in Evansville, Indiana the morning of Tuesday, 17 April
1911 of heart trouble. Capt. Perkins was born in Xenia, Ohio, and moved with
his father to Cincinnati when he was nine years of age. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in
the Union army and after a year’s
service, he was placed in command of the union gunboat Brilliant that
plied the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.[1]
Charles G.
Perkins married Anna Terry 17 Nov 1863 in Henderson, Kentucky.[2]
She was the daughter of Nathaniel D. and Sarah Terry, with whom Charles G. and
Annie[3]
Perkins were living in 1870. Charles’ occupation
was given as “steam boatman.” For
several years Capt. Perkins and Capt. James B. Thompson, of Evansville,
operated the steamer Jewell in the Evansville – Henderson trade. The Jewell
was destroyed by fire about a year ago. Capt. Perkins was a member of Grace Presbyterian Church of Evansville. At his
death he was survived by his widow, two sons and four daughters.
Capt.
Perkins, son of John S. Perkins and Elizabeth Beal, was age 74 years, 1 month
and 1 day old when he died. [4] Charles G. and Annie Terry Perkins are both
buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Kentucky. There is a wonderful biography of Capt.
Charles G. Perkins in Starling’s History of Henderson County, Kentucky. It
is accessible HERE
[1]
“Veteran in Steamboat Service,” Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 18 Apr
1911, p. 6, obituary of Charles G. Perkins.
[2]
Kentucky Complied Marriages 1783-1965, Charles Perkins and Anna Terry,
Ancestry.com.
[3]
Through mistake or perhaps using a nickname, Annie was enumerated as “Nannie”
Perkins on the 1870 Henderson County, Kentucky census. See Ward 1, Roll
M593_469, p. 103A.
[4]
Indiana Death Certificate #373, Charles G. Perkins, died 17 April 1911.
Published 25 Sep 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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