CIVIL WAR
Private, Co. H, 10th NYHA
When George was interviewed by the Lakeview Enterprise on his 97th birthday, he was Michigan's oldest Civil War veteran. His Company was primarily stationed at Fort Stanton which overlooked the Navy Yard Bridge in Washington D.C. He attended Lincoln's 2nd Inauguation and was on duty when President Lincoln was murdered. His commander that night was one of Booth's captors. He marched with his unit in the Grand Review at the end of the war. He returned to his farm in Sacketts Harbor, NY and moved to Lakeview to be with his sons who helped settle the town. George himself laid out the Lakeview Cemetery and chose a grove of birch trees for the grave of his wife, Rhoda. He could see the grove from his home.
George was the son of John and Rebecca (Ferguson) Perkins and the husband of (1) Rhoda Celestia Ackerman Perkins and (2) Lovina Larr.
Private, Co. H, 10th NYHA
When George was interviewed by the Lakeview Enterprise on his 97th birthday, he was Michigan's oldest Civil War veteran. His Company was primarily stationed at Fort Stanton which overlooked the Navy Yard Bridge in Washington D.C. He attended Lincoln's 2nd Inauguation and was on duty when President Lincoln was murdered. His commander that night was one of Booth's captors. He marched with his unit in the Grand Review at the end of the war. He returned to his farm in Sacketts Harbor, NY and moved to Lakeview to be with his sons who helped settle the town. George himself laid out the Lakeview Cemetery and chose a grove of birch trees for the grave of his wife, Rhoda. He could see the grove from his home.
George was the son of John and Rebecca (Ferguson) Perkins and the husband of (1) Rhoda Celestia Ackerman Perkins and (2) Lovina Larr.
CIVIL WAR
Private, Co. H, 10th NYHA
When George was interviewed by the Lakeview Enterprise on his 97th birthday, he was Michigan's oldest Civil War veteran. His Company was primarily stationed at Fort Stanton which overlooked the Navy Yard Bridge in Washington D.C. He attended Lincoln's 2nd Inauguation and was on duty when President Lincoln was murdered. His commander that night was one of Booth's captors. He marched with his unit in the Grand Review at the end of the war. He returned to his farm in Sacketts Harbor, NY and moved to Lakeview to be with his sons who helped settle the town. George himself laid out the Lakeview Cemetery and chose a grove of birch trees for the grave of his wife, Rhoda. He could see the grove from his home.
George was the son of John and Rebecca (Ferguson) Perkins and the husband of (1) Rhoda Celestia Ackerman Perkins and (2) Lovina Larr.
Private, Co. H, 10th NYHA
When George was interviewed by the Lakeview Enterprise on his 97th birthday, he was Michigan's oldest Civil War veteran. His Company was primarily stationed at Fort Stanton which overlooked the Navy Yard Bridge in Washington D.C. He attended Lincoln's 2nd Inauguation and was on duty when President Lincoln was murdered. His commander that night was one of Booth's captors. He marched with his unit in the Grand Review at the end of the war. He returned to his farm in Sacketts Harbor, NY and moved to Lakeview to be with his sons who helped settle the town. George himself laid out the Lakeview Cemetery and chose a grove of birch trees for the grave of his wife, Rhoda. He could see the grove from his home.
George was the son of John and Rebecca (Ferguson) Perkins and the husband of (1) Rhoda Celestia Ackerman Perkins and (2) Lovina Larr.
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