A life, recovered
Otis Wayne Perry
In the family and at the harvest
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Raymond’s brother
Otis Perry was Raymond Perry’s brother and a son of Jim and Julia Mae Perry. Family recollection places him among the people photographed during the Perry Ranch peanut harvest.
In that image, kin and seasonal workers share the same setting. Otis is part of the family’s work, alongside his father, his brother and the recurring worker Ramon.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · UNSUPERVISED* family register · Recovered family photograph register
Alvin Perry, Lorene Perry, Raymond John D. Perry, Margaret Jean Perry, Julia Mae Riddle Perry and Otis Perry together in August 1961.
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Another photograph, another moment
The family also identifies Otis in the outdoor group dated approximately 1950, with Raymond, Euna Mae, Sandra and other relatives.
The two photographs preserve different views of the ranch world: people assembled for work and people gathered as family. Both keep Otis’s name connected to a particular scene.
Sources: Distance Is an Operating Expense · UNSUPERVISED* family register · Recovered family photograph register
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Otis Wayne Perry
The supplied family record places Otis Wayne Perry’s birth in Swenson, Stonewall County, in 1929. Raymond’s 1974 obituary identifies Otis as a surviving brother living in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Sources: Raymond John D. Perry family record · Services Held Monday for Raymond Perry
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The photographs
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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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Clayton’s great-grandparents Raymond Perry and Euna Mae Carden Perry with their daughter Sandra, Raymond’s brother Otis and other Perry relatives.
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One life leads to another.
James Albert “Jim” Perry
1892–1943
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Julia Mae Riddle Perry
1896–1979
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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.
- Raymond John D. Perry family record
Family-tree export supplied by Clayton Hollingsworth, October 25, 2026. The original and detailed research notes remain private.
- Julia and Euna Perry in A History of Stonewall County ↗
First-person family accounts published in 1979, page 254.
- Services Held Monday for Raymond Perry ↗
The Aspermont Star, July 18, 1974, page 3. Contemporary funeral and surviving-family report.
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