Note: will finish the details on Elizabeth's children (from both marriages)soon thanks to Phyllis Wood for this info! Caldwell County, KY genweb site, "The Biography of W. C. Love" "While I am on the waters of the Clark River I will narrate an Incident that occured April 1823 45 years ago." W. C. Love narrates the story of how he saved Hiram Perkins from drowning while attempting to ford the flooded Clarks River to wed "O my dear Lizzie" whose home was on the other side of the river. "Her name was Elizabeth Rowland"......... "Many years passed and one day I was walking a street in Vicksburg. I saw a man standing on a porch. He called out. Is not your name Love? I said it was. He jumped at me with both arms open. It was all I could do to keep him from hugging me in the open street. I am Hiram Perkins he said, the man you saved from drowning on his wedding day." According to Love, Hiram Perkins "grand uncle to Esq. Bard's children of Fredonia killed a man and fled to Miss. and raised a large family. Some years back one of his children was killed by another. How deep and mysterious the ways of Providence." (NOTE - W.C. Love's brother, Robertus, married Sarah Morse who was the sister of Vashti Morse who married Hiram's brother, Brooks Perkins, according to a Perkins researcher. So far, we have not found the story of killing a man, or the fact that one of his children killed another, but we will continue to look. Perkins researchers aren't able to identify "Esq. Bards children of Fredonia" either. Hiram is the son of Adam Perkins b. NC and Nacky Davis. Adam had an original grant in KY. W. C. Love's Bio is a great read, and he recalls in graphic detail how he saved Hiram Perkins.) BLM-GLO website > Mississippi Land Grants Hiram Perkins 1/10/1832 6N2E Sec. 20 Baseline - Choctaw 135 acres (NOTE - If my calculations are correct this grant straddles the Pearl River and is partially in Hinds Co., MS and Rankin Co., MS. Hven't checked on further ownership of this land.) 1850 Federal Census, Hinds Co., MS, image from Familytreemaker Jonathon Vancleave 50 M Overseer b. TN Elizabeth Vancleave 45 F b. KY Galen " " 16 M b. MS William R. " " 12 M b. MS --------- P " " 10 M b. MS Nathaniel M. 6 M b. MS Daniel B. " " 4 M b. MS Pernecy I/J (?) Perkins 22 F b. MS Mary S (?) Perkins 16 F b. MS NOTE - Could Mary be Martha or vice Versa? Samuel P. Perkins is in the house of Lewis Gartley in Hinds Co.in 1850.
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