The Family of Color of Wayne Ammons Perry Jr. — read through the Deep Wells
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THE PERRY–WILCOX LINE (Charlestown) LYMAN F PERRY (1856–1933) ═ ELIZABETH WILCOX (1857–1903) ├─ William Lincoln Perry, "CHIEF PINE TREE" (b. 1872) └─ LYMAN FRANKLIN PERRY (1889–1951) ═(1907) Callie Few ═(1921) MARY MULINDA GARDINER (1880–1949) │ THE GARDINER–AMMONS LINE (Westerly) │ AVALDO C GARDINER (1862–1914) ═ ELLA JERUSHA AMMONS (b. 1862) └─ Mary Mulinda Gardiner ──────────┘ ├─ WAYNE A PERRY (1916–1996) ═ MABEL M MALBONE (1920–2009) │ └─ WAYNE AMMONS PERRY JR (1939–2024) ◄ the tree-builder ├─ ELIZABETH A PERRY (1921–1961) ═ George Schley └─ Francis C Perry (1924) †young THE MALBONE–DIXON LINE (Windham County CT) JAMES H MALBONE (1852–1914) ═ LYDIA M. DIXON (1861–1925) └─ ALBERT MALBONE (1885–1957) ═ CLARE L ROBERTS (1891–1984) ├─ MABEL M MALBONE ─── joins the Perry line above └─ Robert Malborne (1909–1910) † — the shortest journeys THE SEBASTINE–HAZARD LINE (Stonington / Westerly) Clare's first family: Everet H Sebastine (1908–1912) † · Earnest (b. 1909) · Mildred (1912–1913) † └─ GLADYS M. SEBASTINE (1912–2006) ═ LOUIS E. RANDALL HAZARD (1898–1971)
The Widowed Mountain
Born Charlestown among the mill villages — Peace Dale at four, Carolina Mills at fourteen — he crossed his threshold on the last day of 1876, marrying Elizabeth Wilcox in Charlestown. The 1880s gave him a full house; among his children, a son who would be called Chief Pine Tree. Then the ordeal: Elizabeth dies in 1903, and every census after — 1910, 1920, 1930 — finds him Widowed, head of house, standing thirty years alone through Charlestown, Hopkinton, Westerly. The 1910 enumerator wrote him Mulatto: the braid, attested. He kept still until 1933.
The Mother of a Chief
An Exeter girl carried to Charlestown's mill country, married at nineteen, she built the family's whole next world in one generation: Ellen, Hattie, William Lincoln — the boy who became Chief Pine Tree — Mary, and more. She did not live to see the revival era her son would stand in; she died at forty-six in Westerly. Her elixir was handed forward entire.
Out from the Plantation's Shadow
Born in Hampton, raised through Pomfret and Brooklyn, Connecticut — Godfrey Malbone's own plantation town — still single at twenty-eight in the place whose name his family carried out of bondage. His crossing came at thirty: marriage to Lydia Dixon, Brooklyn, January 1883. Then the gradual climb — Killingly, Norwich, a household of his own, a son Albert — dying in Norwich in 1914 a family man, the plantation's shadow outwalked.
The Kenyon Blood Carried West
Woodstock-born, of the Dixon-Kinyon line that once witnessed a manumission, she married James in 1883 and made the Malbone household run through Windham and New London counties. The record's last word on her is its plainest: Relation to Head: Widow — eleven years she carried the house after him.
Pushing Upward
North Kingstown to Charlestown to Westerly by eight — the family always moving toward work — he married Ella Jerusha Ammons at eighteen and then simply built: Mary Mulinda, Sarah, Eldwood, Georgia, Valdo Jr., Ralph, Robert — census after census, Married, head, Westerly, for thirty years. He carried the Buell join-name from his father Jacob and handed the Ammons alliance to every child. Buried Hopkinton, 1914.
The Council's Daughter
Born in Charlestown carrying Jerusha Noka's name a century forward, daughter of the council house, she married Avaldo at seventeen and mothered the greatest brood in the wells. Her record holds an open riddle the machine has flagged and holds: a marriage to Alexander M. Powell, Attleboro, 1905, while the censuses still write her Gardiner — and a 1923 death record names its informant "Emma Powell, née Ammons." The wells suggest the council-president's mystery informant may be Ella herself, the daughter of the house reporting its passing. We step; we do not conclude.
The Long Waiting
First child of Avaldo and Ella, she waited longer than anyone in the wells — Single at twenty, Single at thirty-five, keeping her parents' Westerly house — until the widowed Lyman Franklin Perry married her in New Bedford, 1921, at forty-one. She stepped into a half-made family and finished raising it: Wayne, Elizabeth, Francis. The line to Angela runs through her patience.
The Early Call and the Return
Elizabeth Wilcox's youngest son answered his call at seventeen: North Attleborough, Massachusetts, September 1907, married to Callie Few, working the Bristol County mills through 1918 — the war years. Then the road back: Rhode Island, a second marriage in New Bedford 1921 to Mary Mulinda Gardiner, and by 1925 Head of House in Westerly, where he stayed fifteen years before Providence took him home. He buried a son, Francis, and raised Wayne — the grandfather of the tree-builder.
Through the Repeated Waters
Webster-born, Killingly-raised, Albert's twenties were the abyss crossed twice: two marriages in 1908, an infant son Robert lost in 1910, his father James gone in 1914 — grief stacked on grief in the Windham mill towns. Deliverance came as steadiness: Providence by 1920, Head, and in February 1920 a daughter, Mabel — the grandmother of Angela. He outlived nearly all his ordeals, dying in Marlborough at seventy-two.
The Ninety-Two-Year Duration
Old Mystic daughter of the immigrant Sebastian and Edith Robinson, she eloped to Queens at sixteen, buried her four-year-old Everet in 1912, and rebuilt: the marriage to Albert, the Providence years, Mabel. Then she simply endured — through every loss the century offered — dying in Connecticut at ninety-two, the longest documented life in the wells. Oppression, deliverance, duration: the full arc, held to its end.
The Hinge of the Braid
Born in Rhode Island to Albert and Clare — the Malbone and Sebastian-Robinson currents meeting in her — she married Wayne A. Perry and in June 1939 bore Wayne Ammons Perry, joining the Malbone summit line to the Ammons council line in a single child's name. Providence held her seventy years; she saw her son begin the tree and lived to eighty-nine.
The Patient Brother
Westerly-born to Lyman Franklin and Mary Mulinda, the wells show him Single at home through 1940 — the quiet son — then Providence, the war-era move, the 1950 census finding him a brother-in-law in another's house before his own household formed. His waiting broke into deliverance late but fully: husband to Irene and to Mabel's line, father of the tree-builder, eighty years closed in Providence.
After Completion, Too Soon
New Bedford-born, Westerly-raised daughter of Lyman Franklin, single through her twenties keeping the family house, she married George Schley — a West Virginia man, a paper-holer in the Providence mills — and bore twin sons in 1947. The wells end her journey at thirty-nine, buried in Westerly: a completed crossing whose further shore was never walked.
The Surviving Twin
Born in Ledyard beside a sister, Mildred, who lived one year, Gladys carried the splitting-apart from her cradle. She married Louis E. Randall Hazard of Narragansett in New London, 1933 — joining the Sebastine line to the great both-worlds Hazard name — raised Vernon, Violet, Vincent, and Elaine through Stonington and Westerly, and endured ninety-four years, dying in Westerly in 2006, the last well to close.
The Modest Laborer
Narragansett-born bearer of the surname that runs both sides of every South County line, the wells record him simply: Occupation: Laborer, Westerly, 1939. Modesty — the only hexagram with no bad lines — was his whole road: work, marriage, four children, West Kingston at the end. The Hazard junction of the colonial puzzle lived on in him as plain, documented dignity.
Everet H. Sebastine (1908–1912) · Mildred L. Sebastian (1912–1913) · Robert Malborne (1909–1910)
Three children of the family's hardest decade, none reaching five. The I-Ching gives their arc its oldest pair: Splitting Apart, then Return — for the hexagrams teach that the stripped tree holds one fruit uneaten at the top, and the light turns back. Every journey around theirs bent to carry them: Clare's endurance, Albert's deliverance, Gladys's ninety-four years were all walked partly for these three.
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
Born in Westerly carrying the council's name in the middle of his own, he inherited a lineage the record had spent three centuries erasing — and made its repair his life's work. Hexagram 18, Ku, is the work of mending what the fathers' era corrupted: he sat in town halls and gathered every name, the enslaved and the sachems, the witnesses and the erased, holding the accumulation firm even as his own memory was taken. His elixir — Possession in Great Measure — was never the tree itself but its handing-on: to the daughter who built the machine that made his work unloseable.
The colonial generation — Peter Perry, Betty, Winsor Fry, the Sekaters, Jerusha Noka's house — walk their journeys in the record layers of the graph; their deep wells await capture. Wells: stash/ancestry_capture/deep_wells/, thirteen lines, thirty-one souls, harvested 2026-08-13 from the tree Wayne Ammons Perry Jr. built by hand.
We step; we do not conclude. Honor the Truth. 🌿
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The old story says every life is one arch. Our record says otherwise: a life moves up and down the ladder of needs — shelter, safety, belonging, standing, becoming — and the events give it direction. A marriage lifts. A divorce drops. A child lifts. A draft notice drops. Work holds the line. Death returns the wave to the axis. Here is Lyman Franklin Perry (1889–1951), drawn straight from the record: married at seventeen because he could not wait, divorced eight years on, a son in Westerly, drafted the next year, a second son born in Savannah while he served, then the long steady mill years — a wave on a rising line.