Frederick Barker Perkins
1843 - 1890 (46 years)-
Name Frederick Barker Perkins Birth 13 Jun 1843 Grand Rapids, Kent, MI 
Gender Male Census 23 Jul 1850 Grand Rapids, Kent, MI age 7, born MI, living with parents Census 2 Jun 1860 Grand Rapids, Kent, MI age 16, born MI, living with parents Census 14 Jun 1880 Albany, Albany, NY age 37, born MI, retail grocer, parents born MI/MI Death 2 Apr 1890 Grand Rapids, Kent, MI Burial Fulton Street Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI Person ID I16907 Family Tree Last Modified 24 Jun 2019
Father Samuel Field Perkins, b. 12 May 1805, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 14 Feb 1866, Grand Rapids, Kent, MI (Age 60 years) Mother Mary Desire McIntyre, b. 25 Feb 1810, Hector, Tompkins, NY d. 22 Dec 1913, Grand Rapids, Kent, MI (Age 103 years) Marriage 4 Sep 1842 Family ID F6494 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Agnes Jane Wishart, b. 1850, Tecumsec, Lenawee, MI d. 30 Dec 1908, Atlanta, Fulton, GA (Age 58 years) [1] Marriage 13 Nov 1867 Tecumseh, Lenawee, MI Notes - from "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952" (ancestry.com)
On 13 Nov 1867 in Tecumseh MI, Frederick B Perkins, 24, works in Leather store residing Grand Rapids, born Grand Rapids, married Agnes Jane Wishart, residing Tecumseh, born Tecumseh.
Children 1. Edward William Perkins, b. 22 Jan 1872, Grand Rapids, Kent, MI d. 6 May 1902, East Orange, Essex, NJ (Age 30 years)Family ID F6503 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Jul 2017
- from "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952" (ancestry.com)
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Notes - from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Frederick Barker (Sam'l F., Gaius, William, Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John) was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., June 13, 1843. He married Agnes J. Wishart, Nov., 1867. He resided in Grand Rapids until 1874, when he removed to Albany, N.Y., where he now lives. He is engaged in the grocery trade. - from "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952" (ancestry.com)
Fred B Perkins, age 42y 4m, a merchant, married, born MI to F. & Mary Perkins, died on 2 Apr 1890 in Grand Rapid of a suicide by hanging. - from "The Saline Observer", 10 Apr 1890 (posted on findagrave.com)
Grand Rapids, April 2. - Fred B. Perkins, aged 46, a man well and favorably known in this city, committed suicide this morning by hanging. He has been living alone with his mother, and arose early this morning apparently in the best of spirits. About 9 o'clock he asked her what kind of meat he should get for dinner. She told him to suit himself, and he started out. Two hours later the aged mother went to the cellar to get some vegetables for dinner and was horrified to see her son's body dangling from a rope from a beam under the floor. Close by lay his cuffs and a cigar he had lighted upon leaving the house, with even the ashes undisturbed. The coroner decided that an inquest was unnecessary, the evidence being too plain, and decided it a case of suicide. Perkins was formerly a successful merchant in Albany, and latterly in the grocery business here. He leaves about $20,000, well invested. He has a divorced wife living in Oregon, and while some of his friends are at a loss to account for a cause for the tragedy, others think domestic troubles induced despondency and temporary insanity.
- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
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Sources - [S81] Perkins, George Augustus, The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass, (Salem, Mass, Salem Press, 1889).
- [S81] Perkins, George Augustus, The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass, (Salem, Mass, Salem Press, 1889).