Memorandum by Minnie Perry FitzSimons — Hedley/Perry family history, page 1 of 2

Written by Minnie Perry FitzSimons

Hedley—My grandmother’s father came from England, a widower, with two daughters, and several sons. Maria, my grandmother, married first a Mr. Mauger, related to the Loudon’s of Wilming-ton, N. C. She had only one Mauger child, Harriet, who married a Mr. Waring, a brother of the first Mrs. Thos. Hanckel. There was one little daughter, but mother, father and child lived only a short time.

Mr. Hedley, her father, was a teacher. His other daughter, Eliza, married a Mr. Steele. Several sons she had but one, Dr. Edwin Steele, who married Miss Porcher grew to manhood. Their three sons, Edwin, Harold and Willie were brougnt up at Sewanee by Miss Maria Porcher. Edwin married Miss Ashby, and died leaving several children. The two other brothers I do not know of, so can say nothing. Aunt Eliza Steele was lovely in face and character. She is buried in St. Paul’s Church yard in Charleston.

Only one Hedley brother married. His wife was Harriett Brian. They had one child, a daughter, who married a Mr. Whaley and lived with her niece Mrs. Sam Black.

My grandmother was very handsome. She first married when she was sixteen, and was married to Mr. Mauger only a year.

She then married my grandfather, a widower, Mr. Edward Perry, who had a large family of children. She had a daughter and son, the latter my father. He was born in a pineland in Williamsburg Co., my grandfather having bought a rice plantation on Pee-dee River. His family spent their summers in the pine-land. Their stay was brief as my grandfather soon died of pneumonia contracted in crossing Pee-dee River one very cold night.

My grandmother then moved to Charleston and lived in a house she owned on Bull Street. It was on North side of Bull, west of Rutledge. When my father was fourteen she married old Col. Wm. Fuller of Beaufort and they moved to Beaufort living there until Col. Fuller’s death, some ten or twelve years later. From then until she died she lived with my father, and died and was buried in Barnwell where we were living at the time. I am named for her.

My father’s sister, Maria, lived with us and was quiet and gentle, a mother to me. I called her “Amy” and my first daughter was named for her.

My grandfather’s children by his first wife were:

Child	Notes
Anna Drayton Perry — married Mr. Thos. R. Waring	Children — Jane Ancrum, Hayne, Edward, Clarence, Joseph, Eliza, Annie — WARING
Mary Susan Perry — unmarried
Edward Perry — unmarried
Charles Perry — married in Walhalla	one son I believe