Joshua C. Perkins

Birth Date

c1818

Gender

Entity Type

Person

Letcher County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Sarah Perkins. Father of Hannah Amanda Perkins, Mary Polina Perkins, Highby Perkins, John Perkins, and Sarah Perkins. Farmer in Letcher County in 1850. Farmer in Letcher County in 1860. Captain in the Harlan County Battalion of Kentucky State Militia from October 1862 to January 1863.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 884.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Letcher County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Letcher County, p. 92.

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