Stephen Samuel Perry

Family Stephen Samuel Perry was born in 1825 in Potosi, Missouri; the son of James Franklin Perry and Emily Austin Perry, and grandson to Moses Austin and Maria Brown Austin, and nephew of Stephen F. Austin. Stephen is the half-brother of Guy Morrison Bryan, William Joel Bryan and Moses Austin Bryan. Stephen had attended school taught by Thomas J. Pilgrim. Stephen married Sarah McLean Brown (1830–1888) on April 5, 1853. Sarah was born in Delaware, Ohio and died at Peach Point Plantation. Stephen and Sarah had a child named James Franklin Perry on July 29, 1854. James Franklin Perry married Catherine H. Morris (February 20, 1855 - January 25, 1935) and had three children, including a distinct person named "Stephen Samuel Perry" As proprietor of Peach Point Plantation, Stephen Samuel Perry was responsible for agricultural planning, together with financial and legal decisions related to the business as well as the homestead and was advised by Mordello Munson. Stephen S. opted to focus on sugar cane growth in the 1850s. In the process of decades of management and communication, Perry. received and cataloged original sources of papers and manuscripts of early Texas history. With the birth of each of his children, Stephen Samuel Perry planted an oak tree on the property. Peach Point was virtually destroyed in a variety of storms including hurricanes such as in 1909. Though the Hurricane of 1900 and the Grand Isle Hurricane of 1909 destroyed many structures at the Plantation, two of these oak trees (quercus virginiana) still survive in the present era. ==Death and legacy==

Stephen Samuel Perry died on September 5, 1874, in Brazoria County, Texas. donated them, one of the key sets of historical accounts of early Texas history is kept at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. These are called the James F. and Stephen S. Perry Papers, 1785–1942. In fact, virtually all books related to Stephen F. Austin or settlement of Texas footnote or reference the James F. and Stephen S. Perry Papers. As described by the library catalog, "Papers of Perry and his son Stephen Samuel Perry and their extended families cover significant events in Texas history from the early years of colonization up to the twentieth century. Collection relates to Stephen F. Austin's land holdings, James Franklin Perry's mercantile business and other family-related business enterprises, the establishment and operation of Peach Point Plantation, and the daily concerns of paternalistic slaveholders who found it difficult to make ends meet raising cotton, corn, and sugar; to educate their children where there were no public schools; and to handle chronic health problems. The papers accentuate the contrast between life in various sections of the United States since the Perrys traveled for business, health reasons, and pleasure; attended schools in Ohio, Connecticut, and Virginia; and corresponded with and visited relatives in the northeast as well as Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri." James and Emily Austin Perry Papers Professor of History, Light Townsend Cummins, of Austin College, the official Historian of the State of Texas at the time of this writing, points out that despite her important participation in and contributions to Texas history, there is no collection of letters archived under Emily's name; rather, the collection archived in the 1930s was titled for her husband and son, "the James F. and Stephen S. Perry Papers." Cummins, who has reviewed the papers housed at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, notes that this collection includes "as much of Emily's letters, documents, and papers as those of her husband and son."{{cite book ==References==