Jasper  County Biographies

The Perry Family of Jasper County, Georgia

The following is transcribed by Suzanne Forte (suzanneforte@bellsouth.net) from the book

 "The Kellys of Jasper County, Georgia, Descendants of the Revolutionary Soldier Jacob Kelly and wife Susanna Allen" 

by Dorothy Kelly MacDowell, 1984

Surnames contained in this document:

Banks, Perry, Barrett, Staples, Mattheson, Lane, Gray, Preston

VARINA DAVIS BANKS, 9/6/1860-4/15/1957, born Jasper County, died Machen, Georgia, buried Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, married, 2/9/1882, EDWIN FLETCHER PERRY, born Newton County, Georgia, 12/19/1857, died Machen, Georgia, 8/6/1928, buried Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, Shady Dale, Georgia.

ISSUE:

1.  WEYMAN WESLEY, born 2/13/1883, died 11/20/1928, buried Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, married Lizzie Lee Kelly (1884-1974) and had (A) Edwin Kelly Perry (1909-1967) buried Providence Churchyard, married Edna M. Beverly, born 10/3/1911.

        (B)  Clayton Henry Perry born 2/13/1912, married Elizabeth Staples, born 1917.

        (C)  Dorothy Lee Perry, born 4/26/1915, Shady Dale, married Thomas Jackson Barrett, born 12/14/1911 at Waverly Hall, GA.

2.  HARVEY C., 9/6/1884-6/16/1957, buried Providence Churchyard.  He married and had a daughter, Mary Perry who married Banks Preston.

3.  OSCAR, born 5/19/1886

4.  MARVIN BANKS, 2/2/1891, married Elizabeth Gray

5.  HATTIE MAGGIE, born 7/18/1893, never married

6.  EDWIN FLETCHER, JR., 8/30/1895-1/31/1964, buried Providence Churchyard

7.  JAMES LEMOAH, 3/13/1900, married Sally V. Lane.

8. CAPIE DAVIS, born 10/13/1905, married Lyman Mattheson of Toccoa, GA.

9.  Name unknown

Either E F. or Oscar Perry married Mildred Shy of Shady Dale.