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GREER PERRY, farmer and stock-raiser, section 16, post-office Carthage. He was born in Marion county, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1828; was there reared and received an education at the subscription schools. In 1848 moved with his parents to southwest Missouri, and settled in Jasper county at the head of Jenkins Creek. The spring which forms the head of Jenkins Creek still bears the name of Perry Spring. Our subject was married in Lawrence county, Mo., Nov. 13, 1856, to Miss Isabelle H. Angler, a native of North Carolina. Mrs. Perry died at the homestead in Jasper county January 21, 1872, leaving seven children. During the war Mr. Perry adhered to the principles inculcated by his birth and education, though never taking up arms. In 1862 the Sixth Kansas Regiment and Pin Indians camped upon his farm and pillaged his property, leaving them at their departure many hundred dollars poorer than at their advent, having destroyed nearly everything they could not take away. The following year he left the county, going to Lawrence county, where he remained until the close of the war, when he returned to the wreck of his former home, and though somewhat oppressed by causes engendered by the late unpleasantness, has been in the main prosperous. Was married the second time, May 30, 1882, to Mrs. Elizabeth Harama, a native of Pennsylvania, who is the mother of three children by former marriage. Mr. Perry’s farm consists of 125 acres of good land, about sixty-five acres in cultivation, which is very productive.