Ahnentafel #87 - Temperance Perry, ver. 2

Temperance Perry

Born: 1789 North Carolina
Died: ca. 1875

Buried: Unknown

Married: 1) Ezekiel Parrish in Rowan Co., NC ca. 1806 & 2) Elijah Burton ca. 1855

Census:
1790 North Carolina - Franklin Co., 1 year old living with her parents Jeremiah & ? (--?--) Perry.

1800 North Carolina - Franklin Co., age 11 living with parents Jeremiah & ? (--?--) Perry.


1810 not found on census, she would have been 21 and had two daughters ages 2 and a newborn.

1820 not found on census, Temperance & Ezekiel were living in Rowan Co., NC.  She would have been 31 and had six children ages 1 to 12. 

1829 - Sept. 12 - Indiana - Putnam Co. - Probate of Ezekiel Parrish estate: 

State of Indiana, Putnam County

Subscribed and sworn to before me Alexander Galbreath a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid this 12th day of September AD 1829. A. Galbreath seal JP

State of Indiana, Putnam County

Before me personally came the within named Samuel Rogers and Thomas Ellett on the 11th day of the present instant and after being duly sworn proceeded to appraise the within property. Given under my hand this 12th day of September 1829, A Galbreath, JP

And afterwards to wit on the 24th day of October 1829 the said Admin. filed in the clerk's office of said court the following list of property taken by the widow Temperance Parish at valuation to wit. Bill of property of the widow Parish.

• One bay mare 4 years old $40.00
• Twenty nine head of hogs 18.00
• One half bushel .37 1/2
• One red cow 6.50
• One red heiffer 3.50
• One log chain 3.00
• One pair of gears and hipstrap 3.00
• One shovel plow 1.75
• Three narrow axes 4.00
• One ten gallon kettle 3.00
• One pot 1.37 1/2
• One oven 2.00
• One pair of pot hooks .25
• One frying pan .87 1/2
• One side saddle 10.00
• One man's saddle 6.00
• Two washing tubs .37 1/2
• Eight chairs 3.00
• Two drawing knives 1.25
• One big wheel 1.50
• One iron sieve .75
• One flat iron .50
• One tin trunk 1.00
• Two spelling books .37 1/2
• One novel .12 1/2 
• Amount $112.50
• Amount brought forward $112.50
• One set of pewter plates 1.50
• Two pewter dishes 2.50
• One tin bucket .50
• Two pewter basins 1.75
• One glass bottle .18 3/4
• One big coat 5.00
• Two seed sleighs 1.25
• One bed and bedding 8.00
• One loom 6.00
• One bed and bedding 7.00
• One bed and bedding 7.00
• One bed and bedding 8.00
• Five dollars and seventy five cents 5.75
• Amount $166.93 3/4

I do certify that I have received the within property as witness my hand and seal this 10th day of Oct. 1829

Temperance Parish her + mark

1829 - October 24 - Indiana, Putnam Co. - Settlement of Ezekiel Parrish's estate:

And on the same day, to with the 24th day of October 1829 the said Admin. filed the following sale bill to wit. A bill of property sold by the Admrs. of Ezekiel Parish dec'd. this the 12th day of October 1829.

• John Lane one curry comb $.08
• Andrew Byerly to three wedges .25
• Ditto one chisel .18 3/4
• John Miller to one hand vise .18
• Morgan Wright to 1 box of lumber .59
• Ditto 1 box of shoe tools 1.06 1/4
• John Miller to one basket .25
• Ditto 1 basket .12 1/2
• Temperance Parish to candle moulds .04
• John Jackson to sheep shears .75
• John Miller to one handsaw 1.00
• John Miller to one sickle 1.31 1/4
• Ditto One bottle of castor oil .18 3/4
• Barnabas Woodrum to one bottle .12 1/2
• Samuel Rogers to one bottle .18 3/4
• Elijah R. Knight to cask .26
• John Miller to 4 horse shoes .12 1/2
• Thomas Johnson to one iron wedge .93 3/4
• Amount $7.65
• Amount brought forward $7.65
• John Miller to rasors and shaving box .75
• Tarpley Taylor to 1 pocket book .50
• John Miller to bible and English reader .37 1/2
• Morgan Wright to one mattock 1.43 3/4
• Samuel Rogers to hip straps .12 1/2
• John Jackson to shingles .31 1/4
• Morgan Wright to one hoe .56 1/4
• John Miller to two hoes .25
• Thomas Johnson to one pewter dish 1.00
• George Booker to one plough 1.51
• Elijah R. Knight to 5 deer skins .31
• Ditto to one dining table 2.00
• Washington Walls to one heifer 2.68 3/4
• John Hunter to one cow and calf 6.00
• James Jackson to one colt 11.12 1/2
• Joseph Burner (?) to one sow & nine pigs 2.63
• Thomas Stark to two sheep 2.64
• Ditto to two sheep 2.51
• DItto to two sheep 2.34
• Ditto to two sheep 2.00
• John Miller to rifle guns & shot pouch 16.00
• Elijah R. Knight gears and collar 2.81
• Edward Rogers To gears and collar 2.35
• Morgan Wright one pair streachers [stretchers] 1.60
• Thomas Johnson to one plough 5.00
• John Miller to one tub .12 1/2
• Edward Rogers to one bay mare 44.00
• John Rowdley to one waggon and breeching 31.00
• John Lane to 5 barrells of corn, 77 cents per barrell 3.85
• John Edington to one tar bucket .05
• Amount of sale $155.50

Signed John Miller, James Jarrett Admins.

And afterwards to wit on the 9th day of February 1830 The said Jarrett and Miller administrators as aforesaid filed in the clerk's office of said court the following bill to wit A Bill of Property of Ezekiel Parish deceased this the 8th day of January 1830

• John Miller bought five barrels of corn at 75 cents per barrel $3.75
• John Miller bought 5 bar'l corn at 76 1/2 cts per barrell 3.82 1/2
• John Miller bought 5 barrels corn at 77 cent per barrel 3.85
• Amount $11.42 1/2
• Amount brought forward $11.42 1/2
• John Miller bought 5 barrels corn at 75 cents per barrel 3.75
• John Lynch bought 5 barrels corn at 75 cents per barrel 3.75
• John Lynch bought 5 barrels of corn at 75 cents per barrel 3.75
• Samuel Rogers bought 30 bushels of rotten corn at 2.25
• Amount $28.67 1/2

Temperance Parish received as her thirds 51 barrels and four bushels of corn at 68 3/4 cents per barrel $35.61 1/4

Amount previously taken by widow 166.93 3/4 

New amount taken by widow $202.55

1830 Indiana - Putnam Co., Temperance is listed as head of household age 41.  She is living with three daughters and five sons ranging in age between new born and twenty.

1840 Indiana - Owen Co., aged 51 Temperance is listed as head of household.  She is living with three sons and a woman aged 15-20 who may be either her daughter Elizabeth or her daughter-in-law Elizabeth.

1850 Indiana - Owen Co., Temperance is 61, her real estate holdings are worth $600.  She is living with her son and daughter-in-law Ezekiel & Catherine (Gentle) Perry.

1860 Missouri - Dallas Co., Temperance is 72 married to Elijah Burton.  They are living next door to Ezekiel & Catherine (Gentle) Parrish.

1870 Illinois - Wayne Co., Temperance is 81 living with Ezekiel & Catherine (Gentle) Parrish's family.  Her surname is Parrish again. 

1880 not found on census

Children:
Cynthia 
Willey (f)
Micajah
Louisa
Elizabeth
Mary Frances
Amos
Howard
Martha
Ezekiel

Revised 8/19/2018