1 NOTE Naval Officer

1. 2. Oliver Hazard PERRY   b. 20 Aug 1785, South Kingstown,Washington Co.,Rhode Island; d. 23 Aug 1819, Port au Spain,Trinidad.
2. 3. Raymond Henry Jones PERRY   b. 11 Feb 1789; d. 12 Mar 1826.
3. 4. Matthew Calbraith PERRY   b. 10 Apr 1794, Newport,Newport Co.,Rhode Island; d. 4 Mar 1858, New York,New York.
4. 5. Anna Maria PERRY   b. 10 Nov 1797; d. 7 Dec 1856.
5. 6. Jane Tweedy PERRY   b. 15 Dec 1799; d. Jul 1875.
6. 7. James Alexander PERRY   b. 26 Jun 1801; d. 9 Mar 1822, Rhode Island.
7. 8. Nathaniel Hazard PERRY   b. 27 Nov 1802.

Name Prefix: Comm.
Island Cemetery

1 NOTE Oliver Hazard PERRY, was aCommodore in the U.S. Navy and theCommander and hero in the victorious Battleof Lake Erie duringthe War of 1812. This simple statement does not do justicetothe extra-ordinary feat this victory represents.
PERRY had to recruit his own sailors, and not only train them,but he had to build
his own ships. He ledhis men into their first battle as adecided underdog, and went up against one of England's finestfleets, winning the battle. As a result of this
victory, England lost control of the Great Lakes. In his reportto Gen. William Henry HARRISON, he summed up the battle with thefamous statement "We have met the enemy and they are ours".Commodore PERRY died of yellow fever in Ciudad Bolivar,Venezuela on August 23, 1819. He was buried in Port au Spain,Trinidad. His remainswere later conveyed from there in a shipof war, according to a resolution of Congress and interred inIsland cemetery in Newport, RI in 1829. His wife, Elizabeth(CHAMPLIN MASON) PERRY is also buried there.

There is a large statue of Commodore PERRY located in front ofhis former home in Washington Square, in Newport, RI, and also amonument to him at Put-In-Bay,
So. Bass Island, Ohio, nearthe site of his naval victory.

1. 9. Christopher Grant Champlain PERRY   b. 2 Apr 1812.
2. 10. Oliver Hazard PERRY   b. 23 Feb 1813, Rhode Island; d. 4 Mar 1814, Rhode Island.

Name Prefix: Commodore
1 NOTE Opened Japenese ports to world trade. Hesailed the first U. S.Navy ships into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853. He arrangeda treatywith Japan in 1854, protecting American sailors and property inJapanesewaters.

1. 11. Sarah C. PERRY   b. 8 Jan 1818, New York,New York; d. 1905.

1. 12. Alexander James PERRY  

1. 13. John Augustus ROGERS   b. 1848, Havre de Grace,Maryland; d. 2 Mar 1933, Havre de Grace,Maryland.

Name Prefix: Adm.
1 NOTE The father of Commander John Rodgers, USN, hewas born in 1848at Harve de Grace, Maryland, a little town on the mouth of theSusquehanna River

1. 14. John Augustus ROGERS   b. 15 Jan 1881, Washington,District of Columbia; d. 27 Aug 1926.
2. 15. Alexander ROGERS   b. 1883, Washington,District of Columbia; d. 1910, Alaska.