| Birth: | 11 Aug 1804 in Oglethorpe Co., GA |
| Death: | 28 Oct 1867 in Abbeville, LA |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Reuben Booth b. About. 1784 in Virginia |
| Mother: | Mary Polly Moss b. 26 May 1784 in Oglethorpe Co, GA |
| Spouses & Children |
| Robert S. Perry (Husband) b. 16 Nov 1787 in Westmoreland Co. PA | |
| Marriage: | 24 Apr 1820 in St. Martinsville, LA |
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| Notes |
Ezemily Booth, the wife of Robert Perry, was the daughter of Mary "Polly" Moss and Reuben Booth. Most of
her family settled in Texas. Born in Georgia in 1804, she married Robert Perry in 1820,
when she was 16 and he was 33. Their marriage document called her Miss Ezemial G.
Booth. According to her daughter Mary Augusta, "What union reigned between them! I
never saw a cloud. My mother told me, however, that for a short time my father seemed
inclined to wander from home, but she with womanly tact recalled him by her delicate
attentions and by making home a happy one."
Ezemily gave birth to 16 children, including Mary Alzenith Perry, but five died very young.
Her two-year-old daughter Eveline was drowned at home, and another two-year-old
daughter, Amanda, died of sickness. Ezemily was especially grief-stricken by the
unexpected death of her son Oliver, who died of typhoid fever after the Battle of Bull Run,
and broke down when his body was returned to the family. Several daughters died of
consumption (tuberculosis), most of them quite
young. No wonder that when her daughter Laura wanted to stay at the Catholic
school at Grand Couteau to become a nun, Ezemily wouldn't hear of it. She said, "A
Perry could not stand the religious life, she would die of consumption." She likewise
withdrew her daughter Adeline from the Catholic school for health reasons. But her
youngest daughter Mary Augusta lived as a nun at Grand Couteau until her death in 1934, when she was almost 90. Ezemily
herself succumbed to Abbeville's yellow fever epidemic in October 28, 1867. According to Mary Augusta, she was never
baptized or christened until her deathbed, at the hands of a Catholic priest.