On the south side beneath and across, lies the son of the Commodore who bore his father’s name:
“In memory of Matthew Calbraith Perry, Captain in the U. S. Navy. Died November 10th, 1848.”
Another stone commemorates his son Oliver, who was with his father in China and Japan, and for some time, United States consul at Hong Kong:
“In memory of Oliver Hazard Perry, son of Matthew C. and Jane Perry. Died May 17th, 1870, aged 45.”
The Commodore’s widow, Jane Slidell Perry survived her husband twenty-one years; and died in Newport, R. I., at the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Tiffany, on Saturday, June 14, 1879, at the age of 82.
| [39] | See letter of James Purdon Esq., New York Times, January 6th, 1859. |
| [40] | English Note Books, Vol. I., Dec. 25, 1854. |
| [41] | See page [221]. |
| [42] | Putnam’s Magazine, August 1856, pp. 217, 218. |