Son of William Robert Eddins/Eddings, b.1817 in SC-d.1907 in TX, and his first wife, Louise Nunley, b.unknown in AL-d.1846 in AL. William added the "g" to his surname sometime after moving to Texas from Alabama in late 1850.

Husband of Alice Elizabeth Permenter, b.03/1860 in MS d.1912 in TX.
Married 05/18/1880 in Noxubee County, Mississippi.

Father of these children:
Tina Eddings Chaloupka Floyd
b.02/15/1882 in MS d.07/12/1951 in TX

James Permenter (Jim) Eddings
b.05/10/1883 in TX d.01/19/1973 in TX

Annie L. Eddings Howard**
b.05/1890 in TX d. probably in OK
married George Stephen Howard, 11/05/1907
in Houston, Harris, TX

Alice Elizabeth Eddings Beaird
b.11/04/1892 in TX d.05/21/1974 in TX

Lillian Eddings Lodge Kendrick
b.11/14/1901 in TX d.02/24/1981 in TX

**If anyone has information on his daughter, Annie, or any of her descendants, I would really appreciate hearing about it.

Civil War Service:
CSA, Pvt., 8th Regiment, Co. E, "Tallahoma Hard Shells", Mississippi Infantry;

US Navy, enlisted at Rock Island Prison, IL.- although he enlisted, the National Archives can find no record of any actual service.

Perry's regiment first saw duty in the Pensacola Florida area guarding the Confederate naval yards and ocassionally firing on the Union forts. His Company E is the same Company that the infamous Newt Knight deserted from. Later the 8th Regiment combined with the Army of Tennessee. It is likely that he saw action in these battles:
*Murfreesboro (Dec 31, 1862-Jan 3, 1863)
*Tullahoma Campaign (June 1863)
*Chickamauga (Sep 19-20, 1863)
*Chattanooga Siege (Sep-Nov 1863)
*Chattanooga (Nov 23-25, 1863)
--Lookout Mountain (Nov 24, 1863)
--Missionary Ridge (Nov 25, 1863)

Perry was captured by Union forces and taken prisoner of war on 11/26/1863 at Ringgold, Georgia, the first official U.S. Thanksgiving Day. This was one day before the Battle of Ringgold Gap. He was sent to the Rock Island Prisoner of War Camp in Illinois, arriving on 12/14/1863 in temperatures well below zero. He was just 19-years old, and spent the next month and a half enduring the freezing sub-zero weather and threat of the rampant disease from the unsanitary conditions in what has been called the "Andersonville of the North". Perry chose enlistment into the US Navy as his escape from that death-camp.