The Family of Christopher R. Perry-- Part 1: Oliver, Raymond, Sarah and Matthew

From Wikipedia.

To say this family has had an impact on the U.S. Navy is an understatement.  They had five sons who all died while in Navy service.

Here are the children of Christopher and Sarah Perry:

**  Captain Oliver Hazard Perry  (1785-1819)  Married Elizabeth Champlin Mason in 1811.

**  Lieutenant Raymond Henry Jones Perry  (1787-1826)  Served in the U.S. Navy from 1807 until his death

**  Sarah Wallace Perry  (1791-1855) who never married.

**  Captain Matthew Calbraith Perry  (1794-1858)  Who married Jane Slidell  Perry (1816-1864).

It is kind of a coincidence that Oliver and Matthew married women with the same last names of the Confederate commissioners in the Trent Affair during the Civil War.

--Brock-Perry