WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST

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HARVEY JACKSON PERKINS.

 

            Sunday, February 25, 1912, Harvey Jackson Perkins died at his winter home in Biloxi Miss., after an illness of less than two weeks of chronic cytitas in the eighty-third year of his age.

            Deceased was born May 12, 1829, and on reaching his majority in 1850 he came to Waupaca and has resided here ever since, except that for years he has spent the winter months in the south.  His death has claimed the last of those who settled at Waupaca so early as 1850.

            The remains were brought to this city Wednesday morning for interment in Lakeside cemetery in the old family lot.

            Deceased leaves his wife who could not accompany the remains on account of the rigorous climate, and one son Jay Perkins who resides in New York and who came to accompany the remains to their last resting place.  Weston Levisee of Clintonville, a brother of Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Weir a daughter-in-law and her sister, both of Dale came to attend the short service at the cemetery.

            Deceased had many relatives at Cashton though none were present at the services.

            Thus passeth the last of the few settlers of Waupaca who came in 1850 and who was a well-known resident of this city for over sixty years.