Born in Carter County, TN, probably in Perkins Hollow (the ancestral area), Shell Creek, just east of the town of Roan Mountain.

FATHER: Jacob Perkins Jr. (born about 1798 in Jackson County, TN) A descendant of Joshua "Jock" Perkins.

MOTHER: Nancy (Powell) Perkins (born about 1815 in NC)

WIFE: Mary Jane (Orr) Perkins, born 11 May 1849 in Washington Co., TN to Henry Jackson Orr and Rebecca (Parks) Orr. She was the oldest of five girls. Died in 1915 and is supposedly buried in Broken Bow Cemetery (likely without a marker).

CHILDREN:
Rebecca Alice Perkins (#119823626)
(B-11/11/1866, in TN, D-02/11/1882, in Manassa,
Conejos County, CO, B- in Old Manassa Cemetery)
Henry Jackson "Jack" Perkins (#20061203)
(B-08/29/1870, in TN, D-03/29/1955, in Broken Bow, OK, B-in Broken Bow Cemetery)
William Matthew "Mat" Perkins (#7104940)
(B-Feb 1874, in TN, D-Feb 1908, in Rosepine,
Vernon Parish, LA, B- Rosepine Cemetery)
George Washington Perkins I (Jr.) (#139346524)
(B-03/15/1891, in CO, D-10/15/1959, in Broken Bow, B- Broken Bow Cemetery)

[Note to avoid confusion: There were THREE consecutive George Washington Perkinses in the family line, 1845-1929, 1891-1959, and 1933-2009. They are three different individuals.]


SIBLINGS:
Ann Perkins (no memorial)
(B about 1835, in Washington County, TN,
don't know when died)

Joseph Perkins (#125335552)
(B-03/17/1837, in Washington County, TN,
D-04/29/1918, in Shell Creek, Carter County, TN,
B- Wilson Cemetery, Shell Creek)

William Riley Perkins (#82430500)
(B-03/14/1839, in Washington County, TN,
D-02/02/1914, in Shell Creek, Carter Co., TN,
Bur - Perkins Cemetery, Carter County, TN)

George Washington Perkins (this individual)



In the 1880s and early 1890s George Washington Perkins' family lived in Block 39 of Manassa, Conejos County, Colorado, where he worked in some capacity with one of the narrow-gauge railroads in that area of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.