The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-06
DR.. S. L. Perkins
Buried On Buffalo
Last Thursday
Former Ashe County Physician Dies
After Short Illness In His
WilkeSbOrO Home

DR.. S. L. Perkins, well known
Wilkesboro physician, died at his
home Wednesday morning, Jan. 20.
He had been critically ill for sever
al days.
DR.. Perkins was born on October
3, 1859, on Big Buffalo Creek in
Ashe county near Jefferson, a de-
scendant of distinguished ancestry
of pre-revolutionary fame. His
great-grandfather, Joseph Perkins,
highly educated man, was born at
Oxford, England, 1882. Joseph Per-
kins, with his two brothers, Alex
and Timothy, migrated to this
country at an early age. They land
ed in New York and from there
went to Connecticut, where they
were officers of the Crown. Prior to
the Revolutionary War public SEN
timent in the north rose against the
supporters of the Crown and Joseph
and his brothers moved to North
Carolina DR.. Perkins was the son
of DR.. David Perkins and Mrs. Car
oline Blevins Perkins. His father
was one of the most successful
practitioners of this day.
The educational advantages of
DR.. Perkins were at about the same
level as those of other people of the
country at that time Not being sat
isfed with the meagre opportunities
offered in Ashe county at that time,
he went to Mountain City, Tenn, to
study and from there to study I'M
der the late Rev. D. P. Harley, who
was reared in Ashe and later be-
came the best known preacher in
the Holston conference.
DR.. Perkins then completed his
academic education under the late
Hort Bower, who lived at that time
in Lenoir and who later became a
member of congress, and under J.
F. Spainhour at Oak Hill Academy
in Grayson county, Virginia.
After that he read medicine I'M
der DR.. Joseph Wilcox, who lived
near Warrensville Between terms
Of studying he taught in the schools
to pay his expenses.
Having secured all he could OBJ
tain in the educational line in that
vicinity he went to Baltimore and
entered the Baltimore Medical
College, now a part of the Univers-
ity of Maryland, in 1889 and after
studying for two years, the pre-
scribed medical course at that
time, graduated in April, 1891 with
honors, being second from the top
in his class.
He began practive in Baltimore
but, not liking the city,went to East
Tennessee, then to the state of Ore
gon and later back to Jefferson in
Ashe county. After practicing in
Ashe county for II years he came
to Wilkesboro because of the milder
climate and practiced medicine in
Wilkes until he was stricken sever
al days ago with fatal illness. Those
who knew him intimately say that
he never wished to leave North
Carolina and that he loved this
state with a devotion greater than
many love their birthplace. After
travelling in all the states but two
DR.. Perkins said that none would
compare with North Carolina.
DR.. Samuel Luther Perkins was
married twice, his first wife being
Flora B. Shultz, of friedrich, Md,
whom he married in 1888, and who
died in 1905 Their children were
Mrs. Ensa Lee Bright, of Ruther-
ford College, Miss Stella N. Perkins
and Bon S. Perkins, of Baltimore,
Md. His second marriage was in
1925 to Sallie Parks, of Ronda.
Their children of this marriage are
Annie Lee and Samuel Parks Per-
kins.
In addition to his immediate
family he leaves four brothers,
William F., Green A., and Daniel J.
Perkins, of Buffalo, and James H.
Perkins, of Riverside, Oregon; also
three sisters J. w. Wayman,
of West Jefferson; Mrs. Jerry Blew
ms, Mrs. Hi1e Blevins, Crumpler.
DR.. Perkins was widely read and
was an active and devoted church
worker, being a member of Wilkes
boro Baptist Church.
Funeral service was held Thurs
day morning at his residence in
Wilkesboro with Rev. Avery M.
Church, his pastor, in charge, as