Life History
11th Apr 1828 |
|
about 1853 |
Birth of son Thomas L PERTUIS in Desha County, Arkansas.1,2,11 |
about 1853 |
Married Eliza LEE in Arkansas Post, Arkansas, Arkansas.3,8 |
about 1857 |
Birth of daughter Mary PERTUIS in Desha County, Arkansas.1,2 |
about 1859 |
Birth of daughter Anastasia PERTUIS in Desha County, Arkansas |
between 1861 and 1865 |
Military: exact dates of service not available; 18th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Company F in Arkansas.6,7 |
about 1865 |
Birth of son Peter Augusta PERTUIS in Arkansas.2,12 |
26th Jul 1867 |
Birth of daughter Willie Frances PERTUIS in Arkansas.9,2,12,13,14,15 |
about 1869 |
Birth of daughter Mattie PERTUIS in Drew County, Arkansas.2,12 |
before 1870 |
Death of daughter Anastasia PERTUIS in Arkansas |
7th Aug 1876 |
Birth of son Henry Lee PERTUIS in Arkansas.16,12,9 |
4th Mar 1900 |
Died in Lincoln County, Arkansas.7,5 |
Notes
- Based on Peter's name and stories of early settlers, we think Peter's father or his grandfather or both were named Pierre. Early information refers to one Petro Pertuis and a Pierre Pertuis. These are forms of the same name, Spanish and French respectively.
The Pertuis Family Tree has some helpful information, but many missing individuals and missing details, and little external documentation. That genealogy has the father of Peter A Pertuis as one Manuel Pertuis, whose wife was Marie Chatigny. Manuel is placed as the son of the Chevalier Pierre Pertuis, whose wife is not known.
This genealogy provides us the full name as Peter Augusta Pertuis, one sign that the information here comes from a family source. I have also found this full name one other spotty genealogy.
Manuel Pertuis
Birth 03/24/1794 in Arkansas County, Arkansas [would have been New Madrid, Louisiana at that time], Death 1844
Father Pierre Pertuis dit Chevallieur, Birth 1756 in Arkansas Post, Death Unknown [known from other sources to have died in Dec 1821]
Mother Unknown
Son Pierre Augusta Pertuis V
Birth 04/11/1828 in Arkansas, USA
Death 03/04/1900 in Arkansas, USA
-- Pertuis Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/10957347/person/-551305306
Peter is reported born in about 1828. He was born in the District of Arkansas of the Missouri Territory of the United States, at or near Arkansas Post, a settlement dating to 1649, in the Spanish Territory of New Spain. This was part of what the United States came to call the Louisiana Purchase. This area of Louisiana Territory was named the District of New Madrid at the time the United States bought this Spanish territory in 1803 from the French, who had just taken it back from the Spanish. In 1819 that area became the Arkansas Territory, and became the State of Arkansas in 1826.
"The area of the present State of Arkansas lay within the District of New Madrid, which stretched from the present Arkansas-Louisiana state line to the present city of New Madrid, Missouri. ... By 1806, the lower two thirds of the District of New Madrid was re-designated as the District of Arkansas; the area had two militia units: one cavalry company and one infantry company. Despite the small population, it appears that the early Arkansans enrolled in the militia in fairly large numbers."
-- Arkansas Territorial Militia, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Territorial_Militia#The_Arkansas_District.2C_Territory_of_Louisiana
1850 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 11 October, Arkansas Township, p 4A, Hse/Fam #59
Mary Pertuis 55 F Born Unknown [born abt 1795]
Peter Pertuis 22 M Farmer $2700 Real Estate b Arkansas [born abt 1828]
John Pertuis 16 M Student b Arkansas [born abt 1834]
Anastasia Pertuis 8 F b Arkansas [born abt 1842]
F K Derrisseau 26 M Farmer $120 Real Estate b Arkansas [born abt 1824]
- page 4B -
Elizabeth Pertuis 20 F b Arkansas [born abt 1842]
Eugenie Dumas 3 F b Arkansas [born abt 1842]
Joseph Derrisseau 41 M No Occup b Arkansas [born abt 1842]
"Pertuis, Pierre to Eliza Lee, born of Arkansas County, on 2 Jan 1853. Married by A O Douglass, Justice of the Peace, Douglass Township. Recorded Marriage Book B, Arkansas County, Arkansas (1839-1859), page 68."
-- Delores Lay, RootsWeb, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ARARKANS/2001-01/0979281607
Peter/Pierre and his wife Eliza appear with their three children in neighboring Desha County.
1860 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas, 3 August, Bartholomew Township, P O Green Mount, page 20, Hse/Fam #134
Peter A Purticus [Pertuis] 34 M Farmer $6000 Real Estate $4000 Personal born Ark
Eliza Purticus 23 F Housekeeper born Ark
Thos L Purticus 7 M b Ark
Mary E Purticus 6 F born Ark
Annastassia Purticus 11mos F born Ark
Cicero Owens 34 M Farm Laborer Ark
Hanna Lee 55 Female Housekeeper $2900 Personal Estate b Virginia
Peter served in the Confederate forces in the U S Civil War.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
P.A. Pertuis
Confederate, Private
18th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Company F
In the 1869 Tax Rolls, Pierre is listed in Beauregard Township of Chicot County, Arkansas. Chicot County is south of Desha County, and borders Louisiana on the south. The next year, in the 1870 U S census, the township is still Beauregard, but the county is Drew northwest of Chicot County.
U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
Tax Year 1869
P A Pertuis
Beauregard Township, Chicot County, Arkansas
Occupation Stallion Keeper
Abstract # 130, 1 yr, $10
In 1870, Peter and Eliza are in the same area, but a little father West across the Drew County line. Their post office for the location is the same.
1870 Federal Census, Drew County, Arkansas, 8 August, Beauregard Township, P O Green Mount, page 5 (scan 569), Hse/Fam #44
Pertise [Pertuis], A P 42 M W Farmer $1200 Real Estate $1600 Personal b AR Cannot read or write [b abt 1828]
Pertise, Eliza 32 F W Keeping House born AR Cannot read or write [b abt 1838]
Pertise, Tomas L 16 M W born AR [b abt 1854]
Pertise, Mary E 13 F W born AR [b abt 1857]
Pertise, Petter A 5 M W born AR [b abt 1865]
Pertise, Willie 3 F W born AR [b abt 1867]
Pertise, Mattie 1 F W born AR [b abt 1869]
I have not found a report for Pierre and Eliza in the 1880 census. There is one child reported by one genealogies as born in 1876, named Henry L, probably Henry Lee, after Eliza Lee's maiden name. I would expect to find him in the family's enumeration record for 1880. I had already found burial information for Henry and his wife and their son Henry L Jr.
1900 Federal Census, Lincoln County, Texas, 5 June, Smith Township, District 12, page 4B, Hse/Fam #61
Pertuis, Peter Head W M Aug 1828 72 Married 47 years [abt 1853] AR Unknown Unknown Farmer Owns
Pertuis, Eliza Wife W F May 1837 63 Married 47 yrs [abt 1853] 11 children/4 living AR VA TN
Peter and Eliza are a little north over the Lincoln County line by 1900, and have no one else in their household. Yet 15 years later, when Eliza applies for a military pension, she reports that Peter died in March 1900. There is no date on the particular page of the census, but the census date was 1 June 1900. So either Eliza reported his date of death wrong (either at his time of death or in her application), it was recorded incorrectly on his military records, or this transcription is wrong. There was no image available with this transcription by Ancestry.com
Arkansas, Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1935
Piere [Pierre] A Pertuis
Eliza Pertuis
Residence Lincoln County, Arkansas
Served Arkansas Infantry, Lincoln Regiment
Death Date 4 Mar 1900
Widow applied 1915
Sources
- 1. 1860 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas
- 3 August, Bartholomew Township, P O Green Mount, page 20, Hse/Fam #134
- 2. 1870 Federal Census, Drew County, Arkansas
- 8 August, Beauregard Township, P O Green Mount, page 5 (scan 569), Hse/Fam #44
- 3. 1900 Federal Census, Lincoln County, Texas
- 5 June, Smith Township, District 12, page 4B, Hse/Fam #61
- 4. 1850 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 11 October, Arkansas Township, p 4A, Hse/Fam #59
- 5. Ancestry Trees
- 6. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Name: Date: 2007;;
- 7. Arkansas, Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1935
- 8. RootsWeb Email Archives
- 9. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
- 10. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
- Tax Year 1869
- 11. 1910 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas
- 7 May, Dumas, District 36, Sheet 1B, Hse/Fam #17
- 12. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
- 13. 1920 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas
- 7 January, Randolph Township, District 43, Page 7A, Hse #156, Fam #166
- 14. 1930 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas
- 15 April, Dumas, District 21-14, page 14B, College St, Hse #342, Fam #387
- 15. 1940 Federal Census, Desha County, Arkansas
- 15 April, Randolph Township, District 21-16, Page 9A, Hse #170, Own $1600, Farm
- 16. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942