A life, recovered
John Daniel “Dan” Perry
Between the Brazos and the ranch
Imagined talking portrait · modern artistic interpretation. Appearance is interpretive; the voice and dialogue are dramatizations, not historical recordings.
Open still portrait ↗The Perry family · five generations
The family in motion.
Daniel Perry III, James Whitehead Perry, J. Daniel “Dan” Perry, James Albert “Jim” Perry and Raymond John D. Perry.
Another portrait film
Words of wisdom
Imagined talking portrait · modern artistic interpretation. Appearance is interpretive; the voice and dialogue are dramatizations, not historical recordings.
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James Daniel’s generation
James Daniel “J.D.” Perry was the son of James Whitehead Perry and Sarah Ann Courtney Perry, and the father of James Albert “Jim” Perry.
His family connects two familiar parts of Clayton’s history: the nineteenth-century Brazos household and the later Stonewall County ranch generation.
Sources: UNSUPERVISED* family register · The Library at the End of the Highway
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The Sherrod connection
The family register identifies Lula A. Sherrod as J.D.’s wife. That marriage brings the Sherrod branch into the story alongside the Perry and Courtney names.
The current account establishes those family connections. It leaves the exact sequence of J.D.’s moves and his individual occupations open rather than supplying a conventional pioneer story in their place.
Sources: UNSUPERVISED* family register · The Library at the End of the Highway
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Sources & further reading
These sources support the biography and its continuing research.
- UNSUPERVISED* family register ↗
Existing family record supplied and maintained by Clayton Hollingsworth; conclusions retain the stated evidence limits.
- The Library at the End of the Highway ↗
Clayton’s published family account of the Perry migration and James and Sarah’s portrait.