The January 1919 date is according to his brother Ventrice, born in December 1919, and not contradicted by his sister Anita, born in 1924. His surviving sister, nearly two decades younger, believes he was born and died in the spring of 1918. We cannot find an official record of his birth, death, or burial, although his existence is recorded on all his siblings' birth certificates. He is probably buried in an unmarked grave in Whitehall (Dykesville) or McKenzie (Homer) cemeteries in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, or possibly in one of the Haynesville, La, cemeteries (Friendship or Shady Grove). Both Perkins and Shaw relatives who died about the same time are buried in Whitehall, so that's the most likely.
Update: Carol found a death record in the Louisiana State Index.
* To descendant genealogists, because most people are listed in official records as first name and middle initial.
The January 1919 date is according to his brother Ventrice, born in December 1919, and not contradicted by his sister Anita, born in 1924. His surviving sister, nearly two decades younger, believes he was born and died in the spring of 1918. We cannot find an official record of his birth, death, or burial, although his existence is recorded on all his siblings' birth certificates. He is probably buried in an unmarked grave in Whitehall (Dykesville) or McKenzie (Homer) cemeteries in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, or possibly in one of the Haynesville, La, cemeteries (Friendship or Shady Grove). Both Perkins and Shaw relatives who died about the same time are buried in Whitehall, so that's the most likely.
Update: Carol found a death record in the Louisiana State Index.
* To descendant genealogists, because most people are listed in official records as first name and middle initial.
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