A life, recovered
Eliza J. Whitehead Perry
The Whitehead name in the Perry line
Imagined likeness · modern artistic interpretation. Appearance is interpretive; the voice and dialogue are dramatizations, not historical recordings.
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Eliza and her son
Eliza Whitehead Perry was the wife of Daniel Perry III and the mother of James Whitehead Perry. Clayton’s published account identifies that relationship at the head of the Texas family line he follows through the Brazos country.
Her son married Sarah Ann Courtney in 1857. Through their descendants, Eliza’s place in the family continues toward the later Stonewall County generations.
Sources: The Library at the End of the Highway · UNSUPERVISED* family register
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An individual place in the record
The current sources preserve Eliza chiefly through those family relationships. They do not yet support a detailed account of her own work, preferences or daily life.
This shorter account keeps her name and known family connection distinct from Daniel’s much more extensive public history.
Sources: The Library at the End of the Highway · UNSUPERVISED* family register
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Sources & further reading
These sources support the biography and its continuing research.
- The Library at the End of the Highway ↗
Clayton’s published family account of the Perry migration and James and Sarah’s portrait.
- UNSUPERVISED* family register ↗
Existing family record supplied and maintained by Clayton Hollingsworth; conclusions retain the stated evidence limits.