MARRIED FIFTY YEARS (Perkins)

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Howard Courant
Thursday, May 5, 1938

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Perkins will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary by  holding open house for their friends and relatives on Sunday afternoon, May 8th, from 2:00 to 5:00 at their home in Howard.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Perkins are old settlers of Elk County, having resided here 59 and 66 years respectively.

Mr. Perkins was born near Des Moines, Iowa in 1855.  He came with his parents to Johnson county, Kansas when two years old. At the age of twenty-one, he and his brother F. H. Perkins came by way of covered wagon to Butler county, locating northwest of Latham.  After batching there for three years, they came to Elk County and settled nine miles west of Howard.  On May 9, 1888 he married Hannah Burrows.

Mrs. Perkins was born near Keokuk, Iowa in 1868.  When three years old she, with her parents, came to Elk county.

They lived west of Howard forty years, where Mr. Perkins was engaged in farming and stock raising.  Ten years ago they moved to Howard and for most of that time, Mr. Perkins has continued to follow his profession.

They have seven children and eleven grandchildren.  The children are:  Earl, Carl, Glen, and Ray, all of Howard; Roy of Missouri, Mrs. Alice Stockdale of Horton, and Mrs. Ethel Drisko of Oklahoma City.