Amy (Alvord) Perry (1801 - 1868)

Born 22 Feb 1801 in Homer, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Ebenezer Perry — married 14 Apr 1824 in Homer, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1868 at age 67 in Homer, New York, United States

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Biography

Amy Alvord, born 22 Feb 1801 at Homer, New York, was the fifth child of Ebenezer Alvord (1767-1844) & Rachel (Crampton) Alvord (1770-1843).

She married 14 Apr 1824 @ Homer, New York, Ebenezer Perry [b.10 Dec 1802 @ Aurelius, NY, son of Ichabod & Jemima (Pease) Perry; d. 15 May 1886 @ Homer, NY]. They had 7 children, born at Homer, New York ^[1]:

1. Amy Matilda Perry (1825-1840)
2. Rachel Elvira Perry (1827-1857)
3. William Wallace Perry (1829-1857)
4. Rhoda Volumna Perry (1831-1902); married Alonzo H. Lewis
5. Ebenezer Alvord Perry (1833-1902); married Mary Lucretia Clapp
6. Mary Elizabeth Perry (1836-1861)
7. Ruth Ann Perry (1839-aft.1902); married Ansel Ward Gates

This was an agricultural family that resided at Homer Township, Cortland County, New York ^[2],^[3],^[4],^[5].

Amy (Alvord) Perry died 8 Mar 1868 at Homer, New York. Her grave is in Atwater Cemetery, Homer, Cortland County, New York, USA, marked on the face of a collective Perry family pillar ^[6].

Sources

1. ↑ Alvord, Samuel Morgan. A genealogy of the descendants of Alexander Alvord, an early settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (page 322) Published 1908; no. 832: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/322/mode/1up
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCY9-H4G : 23 December 2020), Amy Perry in household of Ebenezar Perry, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6QH-LSV : accessed 1 February 2016), Ebenezer Perry, E.D. 3, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States; count clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 843,780.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC7F-766 : 18 February 2021), Anny Perry in entry for Ebenezer Perry, 1860.
5. ↑ "New York State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNJ-QYY1 : 8 March 2021), Amy Perry in household of Ebenezer Perry, District 03, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States; citing Census, p. , citing multiple county Clerks; Warren and Lewis County Board of Supervisors; multiple counties in New York; Utica and East Hampton Public Libraries, New York.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #82235718