Pencil notes: Perry family marriages, births, and deaths

A small slip of paper or the back of a card carrying seven lines of soft pencil notation in an adult hand, recording marriages, births, and deaths in the Perry family connection. Several words are faded and partially illegible, including two proper names (the bride or groom paired with a Perry at Grahamville; the given name accompanying “Rev. B.” Perry) and the South Carolina place name on the sixth line. The hand is consistent with similar notations on other photo-card versos in the album (e.g., page 236). M. A. P. — born 1859, died Camden January 1872 — was likely a Perry child of about thirteen. The Perry family lived in Grahamville (Beaufort County, S.C.) and Camden, S.C.; Minnie Perry FitzSimons, mother of the compiler, was a Perry by birth.

The notes record a Perry marriage at Grahamville, S.C. (the spouse’s surname begins with “B” and most plausibly reads Brisbane, a Beaufort-County family that intermarried with the Perrys); the birth of a child with initials “M. A. P.” in 1859 and that child’s death in Camden in January 1872; the names of a “Rev. B.” Perry and another Perry whose given name cannot be read with confidence; the death of one of them at a South Carolina place whose name begins “S” or “L”; and a reference to J. V. Perry in 1908, with what appears to be a month abbreviation following the year.