{"id":297,"date":"2011-11-15T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=297"},"modified":"2013-06-18T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T10:32:10","slug":"perry-annie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=297","title":{"rendered":"Perry, Annie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"P1010954\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010954-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010954-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010954.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Annie Perry<\/div>\n<p>Free Will Baptist Cemetery, Marker #35<\/p>\n<p>(~1855-1871)<\/p>\n<p>Annie was born in Beaver River about 1854 and died there 28 Aug 1871 at the age of 17. While her grave marker says she died 28 Aug 1872, we have taken the date from her death record where she appears as Anna E Parry; however, we have used the name on her grave marker. The cause of Annie\u2019s death is given as \u201cbrain fever.\u201d She was the daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Cann) Perry next to whom she is buried and named on the same grave marker, as is her sister Arabella.<\/p>\n<p>Annie is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tightlines.ca\/\">Mayflower descendant<\/a>. Through her father she is descended from Mayflower passengers John Alden and Richard Warren.<\/p>\n<p>One of Annie\u2019s ancestors, through both her mother and father, may have been William Knowlton, whose grave marker in Shelburne is among the earliest for any English settler in Nova Scotia\u2014it simply reads \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/minerdescent.com\/2010\/10\/20\/william-knowlton\/\">William Knowlton, 1632<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More about Annie, her parents and siblings appears in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/FGS\/\">Old Stones Family Group Sheet Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave a comment if you have any additional information about Annie, particularly the discrepancy in the spelling of her surname and the year of her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Perry Free Will Baptist Cemetery, Marker #35 (~1855-1871) Annie was born in Beaver River about 1854 and died there 28 Aug 1871 at the age of 17. While her grave marker says she died 28 Aug 1872, we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions\/1043"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}