(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit)
ELIZABETH WALKER moved up to a little Ohio town and lived with her Perkins in-laws during the Civil War while her husband GEORGE was gone. The Perkins’ were an old-time family who’d been in this country for ages and ages, since the time of the Puritans. The Perkins came from the British Isles. They all had sandy hair. That’s what they called red hair in those days.
Some of the Perkins came to this country very early on the ship Bowdin. One woman objected to the Puritans.
VERNON WORK MYERS: The Puritans didn’t want anyone to have any fun. Not even kids. And especially not themselves.
So this woman and her husband followed Roger Williams to Providence, Rhode Island. That’s how Rhode Island came to be a separate entity. They didn’t want anything to do with the other guys who were putting everybody in stocks or drowning witches or any of that nonsense.
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