We only have one known photo of my Grandpa Joe Perry:
Hazel Dusart had this photo in one of her albums, and she gave it to my Mom. It is part of a Perry family photo; the original is tiny. It was taken circa 1938 so he would have been about 59 years old.
We didn't know very much about Joe Perry. We knew he had a brother Ambrose Perry. We found the obituary for Ambrose Perry dated Oct 12, 1961 in the Syracuse Post Standard newspaper:
Since Ambrose was a native of Malone, we started searching for Joe Perry in Malone church records. We ended up hitting the jackpot in the Notre Dame Church Records (a catholic church with records written in French). It turns out Joe Perry was French-Canadian and his baptised name was Carolus Josephus PARENT. His English-ized name was Charles Joseph PERRY. Eventually, we found the Parent Family Association which traces his patrilineal line back to France. The Parent Family Association website is written in French, but you can go to Google's Language Tools, scroll down to the translate box and copy / paste the information you would like translated from French to English.
I'll write more about Joe Perry another day! Please comment if you have anything to add about Joe!
