| Show perkins berkins family meet in annual reunion by albert R lyman A string of cars from monticello blanding and bluff began arriving about noon at the dude ranch on verdure creek on monday the tha fourth to observe the annual perkins family reunion one truck from bluff carried a generous supply of melons and each car brought its contribution to the banquet which was spread on a long string of camp tables and aad surrounded aundee by about 85 people in the shade of the tall quaking asps alps and pines I 1 A survey of the situation r re e vealon the fact that this was but a fraction of the posterity of benjamin and hyrum perkins thit that at least 45 of their sons and in laws lavis were in the ie armei services s of the united states that thai they w ere allied with nearly all the ol 01 old 1 families of san sai jaan and th thil tha A if all the perkins blood were removed from southeastern utah atwould it would leave a tragic vacancy the posterity of benjamin and hyrum perkins are known by the name cf f or have intermarried inter married with the adams family the bailey and bayles family the bronson I 1 christensen johnson nielson lyman I 1 guymon barton norton I 1 black redd palmer young butt jones the list is too long to undertake to give in full and the i big multitude that are left out must not be offended after the banquet somewhat what of a history of the family was given from fram the time of thomas his son thomas II 11 and his son william in whose time about a hundred years ago the ithe name was changed from to perkins among the sons of william perkins were the emigrants from wales benjamin and hyrum perkins who settled in san juan from which place their posterity has gome acne forth to other counties and states besides growing into a multitude right here daniel B perkins was reelected elected re as president of the family organization with rachel perkins as assistant and thora norton as secretary se A financial statement was read of money money received anil and disbursed and it was resolved to collect and prepare more history of the family to keep individual family records to make regular reports to the head of the organization and to meet again next summer after a sociable melon bust the cars began slipping down the hill out of the big grove and speeding away to the north and abid to the south |
