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 | | Volumes include diaries, 1861-1864 and 1866-1969, of Emma Sue Gordon Perkins (1837-1870), wife of Robert C. Perkins, who was a teacher in Hertford, N.C., before her marriage in 1863. |
 | | BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Robert Caldwell Perkins (1825-1904) and his brother Elisha Alexander Perkins (1828-1897) operated a large farm known as Pleasant Valley on John's River near Morganton in Burke County, N.C. Their sister Jane Elizabeth Perkins married a Williams and settled in White County in northern Georgia. |
 | | During the Civil War, Elisha Alexander Perkins was a captain in the Confederate Army, serving with the 41st North Carolina Regiment in coastal North Carolina and Virginia; Robert Perkins remained in Morganton and held a number of local offices, including that of sheriff of Burke County, during and after the war. |
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