Jacob Perkins

Abt 1854 - 1917  (63 years)

• Name	Jacob Perkins
  Birth	Abt 1854	Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Census	1861	Yarmouth, Elgin, ONT
  	age 6, born Upper Canada, living with parents
  Census	1871	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT
  	age 16, born ONT, living with parents
  Census	1881	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT
  	age 26, born ONT, of NS origin, Oil Producer
  Death	21 Jul 1917	Humniska, Poland
  Person ID	I167	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	James Perkins,   b. 18 Jan 1824, Aylesford, Kings, NS d. 19 Nov 1895, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Mary Vansickle,   b. 11 Jan 1832, Ontario, Canada d. 31 Mar 1928, Lambton Co, ONT (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	14 Mar 1850	Yarmouth, Elgin, ONT
  Family ID	F117	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jennie Jardine,   b. 5 Nov 1855, Dundas, Ontario, Canada d. 25 Dec 1937, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	13 Dec 1876	Petrolia, Lambton, ONT
  Children	1. Gertrude Mary Perkins,   b. 11 Nov 1877, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT d. 5 Jun 1880, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT (Age 2 years)   2. James Walter Perkins,   b. 28 May 1879   d. 26 May 1880 (Age 0 years) + 3. Jacob Herbert Perkins,   b. 16 May 1881, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT d. 13 Apr 1956, Cedar Rapids, Linn, IA (Age 74 years) + 4. Cyrus Wilfred Perkins,   b. 25 Mar 1883, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT d. 25 Oct 1967, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 84 years) + 5. Olive Jean “Ollie” Perkins,   b. 26 Oct 1885, Petrolia, Lambton, ONT d. 14 Apr 1973, Houston, Harris, TX (Age 87 years) + 6. Charles Ely Perkins,   b. 1888, Poland d. 1965, Biecz, Poland (Age 77 years)   7. Edward Blake “Eddy” Perkins,   b. 15 Jul 1895, Poland d. 26 Feb 1968, Vienna, AUS (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2023

  
  

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• Notes

  From “The Oil and Gas Journal”, 16 Apr 1920 (googlebooks.com) A letter just received in Sarnia from Mrs. Jacob Perkins at Krosno, Galicia, gives some particulars of the death of her husband, a former well known Petrolia oil man. Mr. Perkins was employed in the Galician oil fields before the war, but after the war broke out was taken with his family to Vienna, where they were held prisoners. In November, 1916, following the last retreat of the Russians from the Galician front. Mr. Perkins was taken back to Galicia under military escort to engage in the work of producing oil for Government use. The family was kept in Vienna. He continued working under great difficulties until March, 1917, when he was taken ill with influenza, dying after seven weeks' illness. Mrs. Perkins reached him two weeks before his death, and remained in the country to help wind up his affairs. Galicia is now under Polish jurisdiction. During the years of the war they could not write even to Mexico or the United states when the latter was neutral, owing the the severe censorship; letters were sent byt apparently they did not get outside of Austria. Travel is still difficult in Central Europe and conditions are awful; the people, according to the writer, are fighting one another like mad dogs. She expects to return to America shortly, with her daughter.