Eli Sheridan Perkins |
| Posted 2008-11-15 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ September 29, 1961 Saturday Rites In Prescott For Eli S. Perkins Eli S. Perkins, a pioneer of Wickenburg’s early history, died last Saturday in the Arizona Pioneers Home in Prescott which he had entered just a month ago. His home was in Phoenix. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning in the Ruffner Funeral Home in Prescott with the Methodist minister of that city officiating. Burial will follow in the Pioneers Cemetery there. Mr. Perkins, the step-father of W. E. (Bill) Craig of Wickenburg was a native of Meadowcreek, KY., and came to Arizona in 1897. After teaching in the St. Johns School he was elected to the 21t territorial Legislature in 1900. This was the first legislature to occupy the new capitol building in Phoenix. Mrs. Perkins was also a delegate to the constitutional convention when Arizona became a state. In 1904 Mr. Perkins purchased the Arizona Gazette, forerunner of the Phoenix gazette. He sold that newspaper a year later and bought the Wickenburg News-Herald from Dick Wick Hall. He moved the newspaper to Congress and changed it name to the Martinez Miner. Later Mr. Perkins was city editor of the Prescott Journal-Miner. He entered the Internal Revenue Service in 1922 and remained in that work until her retired in 1945 at the agg of 70. Mr. Perkins and his wife, Sarah observed their 60th wedding anniversary last year. Survivors are the widow who resides in Prescott; three sons, Brodie of Mexico City, John of Phoenix and Fred of Prescott; and two step-sons, W. E. Craig of Wickenburg and Sidney Craig of Los Altos, Calif. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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