A life, recovered / 1892–1943
James Albert “Jim” Perry
The older generation at the harvest
Imagined portrait · modern artistic interpretation, adapted from the supplied talking portrait. Appearance is interpretive; the film’s voice and dialogue are dramatizations, not historical recordings.
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The family in motion.
Daniel Perry III, James Whitehead Perry, J. Daniel “Dan” Perry, James Albert “Jim” Perry and Raymond John D. Perry.
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Jim and Julia at Aspermont
James Albert “Jim” Perry married Julia Mae Riddle at Aspermont on June 15, 1913. Their children included Raymond and Otis Perry.
The family register places Jim and Julia’s household near Raymond and Euna Mae in the 1940 census. Several generations were living within the same Stonewall County farming world.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · UNSUPERVISED* family register · Recovered family photograph register
Clayton’s great-grandfather Raymond Perry; Raymond’s father Jim; Raymond’s brother Otis; and Ramon, a migrant farmworker welcomed back for harvest seasons. The circa range is based on Jim Perry’s death in 1943 and visual evidence.
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A pause in the peanut harvest
Jim beside Raymond, Otis and Ramon in the Perry Ranch harvest photograph. Sacks, loose peanuts and belt-driven machinery surround the people who have paused for the camera.
Jim died in 1943. His death provides the latest possible year for the photograph, which the archive dates approximately to 1938–1943.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · UNSUPERVISED* family register · Recovered family photograph register
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One family, more than one generation
Jim belongs between the older Perry migration and the ranch childhood remembered by Wanda. The portrait with Julia and the harvest group preserve him both within a household and among the people at work.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · UNSUPERVISED* family register · Recovered family photograph register
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The photographs
hold more of the story.
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Clayton’s great-great-grandparents James Albert “Jim” Perry and Julia Mae Riddle Perry. The supplied image is a colorized derivative.
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One life leads to another.
Lorene Faye Perry Pitcock
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Alvin Lee Perry
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Margaret Jean Perry Howell
1937–2003
Read the biography →ParentLula A. Sherrod Perry
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Raymond John D. Perry
1917–1974
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Otis Wayne Perry
Read the biography →Spouse in the family recordJulia Mae Riddle Perry
1896–1979
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James Daniel “J.D.” Perry
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Behind this biography
Sources & further reading
These sources support the biography and its continuing research.
- Distance Is an Operating Expense ↗
Published family recollections of Perry Ranch work, school travel and the harvest photograph; recollections are oral history.
- UNSUPERVISED* family register ↗
Existing family record supplied and maintained by Clayton Hollingsworth; conclusions retain the stated evidence limits.
- Recovered family photograph register ↗
Photograph identifications and dates retain their stated family-memory or documentary status.
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