Stirpes, Volume 7, Number 4, December 1967 Page: 150
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STIRPES
AUSTIN-PERRY M E M 0 R A N D U M
Compiled by Edna Perry Deckler
with the assistance
of
Winnie Allen
(Continued from September, 1967)
Winnie Allen, archivist of the University of Texas Library,
published in Austin, Texas, on June 15, 1945, anA 18 page mimeographed
paper of notes dictated to her by Mrs. Hally Bryan Perry,
founder with her first cousin, Miss Betty Ballinger, of the fine
organization, THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. The title
of this paper is "Family Notes by Request." Your compiler feels
that this data, regardless of the fact that it is "published"
material had such a limited circulation that it is in order to
reproduce it herewith, with notes and additions where necessary.
"The first note is a warning: --Some years ago a talented
member of the family wrote a sketch of our grandmother Emily, in
the course of which she indirectly quoted some letters of Stephen
F. Austin to his sister regarding her sometimes irritability and
criticism of conditions in her new home. Some of the readers took
exception to this, thereby, as I see it, giving an unfair coloring
of the work to other members of the family. Those who form the
characters of this sketch were not perfect. They were very
imperfect, 'even as you and I.' But they were indeed stalwarts,
and it should be our pride that we are their descendants. However,
these jottings had best not be perused by any who expect
perfection in human nature. One who requested these memoirs
asked especially that anecdotes illustrating individuality should
be utilized as giving true pictures. The nature of anecdotes
is necessarily often amusing and critical; so again, beware.
"There was a time when the village of the Austins, Bishopstoke,
Hampshire County, England, suggested the then 'green peace
that is England.' Not so today, for from Southampton through
Eastleigh$ to the lanes of Bishopstoke, is devastation. (Note:
Due to World War II bombing, she means, as this was dictated at
the time of the war.) From this sweet land, in 1638, in the good
ship Bevis, Richard Austin with his wife, who we think was Betsy,
(Note: Paul R. Austin in AUSTINS TO WISCONSIN, published in 1964,
by William N. Cann, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; calls the wife
of Richard Austin (1598-1638), "Elizabeth ("Widow Betsy") on page
vi, and on page 1, he calls her simply "Elizabeth."), and their
two sons, Anthony and Richard, sailed from Southampton and made
port in Charleston, Massachusetts, now part of Boston, Richard
was a tailor and settled in the small town of Rowley. His son,
Anthony, dropped down into Suffield. This county and an adjacent
one were for 200 years a bone of contention between the two adjoining
colonies, Massachusetts and Connecticut, but eventually the
northern lines straightened out, leaving the Austins definitely
Connecticut Yankees. Anthony served his colony long and well, and
Richard, his son, continued in his way, but broke the record of
migration through remaining where he was born. So completely did
he remain that his is the only grave which we could not find in150
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