Emily Austin Perry

Perry was born in Austinville, Virginia. She attended Mrs. Beck's Boarding School"The Higher Education of Women in the Ohio Valley", Ohio archaeological and historical quarterly, Volume 25, By Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, p. 3 in Lexington, Kentucky from October 1804 until December 1808,Daughters of Republic of Texas, Volume 1 By Turner Publishing Company, p. 218{{cite web

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| access-date = 11 February 2010}} then two years at the Hermitage AcademyThe colonizer: a sage of Stephen F. Austin By Milton Cook Tracy, Richard Havelock-Bailie, p. 255 located on the Hudson River to further her education.{{Cite web

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Perry married James Bryan (1788–1822) in Potosi, also known as "Mine á Breton"Foley, William E., The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood, p. 90 or "Mine au Breton."{{cite web |url=http://washington.mogenweb.org/mabhs.html |title=Mine Au Breton Historical Society |website=washington.mogenweb.org |access-date=May 19, 2010}} The two lived with Emily’s parents at their home called Durham Hall, in Missouri, from 1813–1814. In 1815, they moved to Hazel Run, Missouri, and also later to Herculaneum, Missouri. Emily and James Bryan had five children:

• Stephen Austin Bryan was born on July 17, 1814, in Durham Hall, Missouri. He died on August 12, 1814, in Durham Hall, Missouri.
• William Joel Bryan was born on December 14, 1815, in Hazel Run, Saint Genevieve, Missouri. He died on March 13, 1903.
• Moses Austin Bryan was born on September 25, 1817, in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Missouri. He died on March 16, 1895, in Brenham, Texas.
• Guy Morrison Bryan was born on January 12, 1821, in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Missouri. He died on June 4, 1901, in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
• Mary Elizabeth Bryan was born on July 5, 1822, in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Missouri. She died on August 4, 1833.

James Bryan (Emily’s first husband) died on July 16, 1822, in Potosi, Missouri. Perry supported her family by taking in boarders{{cite web

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}} and teaching at a school in Hazel Run, Missouri.

On September 23, 1824, Perry married her second husband, James Franklin Perry. Emily and James Franklin Perry had six children:

• Stephen Samuel Perry (Born June 24, 1825, in Potosi, Missouri; died September 5, 1874, in Brazoria, Texas).{{cite web

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| title = Stephen Samuel Perry

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• Emily Rosanna Perry (Born September 24, 1826, in Potosi, Missouri; died December 6, 1827, in Potosi, Missouri).{{cite web

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• Eliza Margaret Perry (Born January 3, 1828, in Potosi, Missouri; died January 3, 1862, in Austin, Texas).{{cite web

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• James Elijah Brown Perry (Born May 17, 1830, in Potosi, Missouri; died February 14, 1831, in Chocolate Bayou, Texas).{{cite web

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• Henry Austin Perry (Born November 17, 1831, at Chocolate Bayou, Texas; died September 10, 1853, in Biloxi, Mississippi).{{cite web

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• Cecilia Perry (Born December 10, 1835, at Peach Point Plantation; died June 8, 1836, at Peach Point Plantation).{{cite web

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| title = Cecilia Perry

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Of her eleven total children, six would live to adulthood. On June 7, 1831, the family, composed of Emily and James Perry, four Bryan children, and Stephen Perry, began the long move from Potosi, Missouri, to Texas.

Emily and most of her family (including Samuel Stephen and Eliza Margaret) arrived at San Felipe de Austin, Texas, on August 14, 1831. Her son, Moses Austin Bryan, had arrived in Texas some months before his parents, on January 2, 1831.{{cite book

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| title = Emily Austin of Texas, 1795–1851

| year = 2009

| publisher = TCU Press

| isbn = 978-0-87565-351-8}}{{rp|96}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Herzstein_Library/Veteran_Biographies/San_Jacinto_Bios/biographies/default.asp?action=bio&id=2948 |title=Biographies |access-date=2010-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716143933/http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Herzstein_Library/Veteran_Biographies/San_Jacinto_Bios/biographies/default.asp?action=bio&id=2948 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }} Emily and the younger children remained in San Felipe de Austin for several months, and then the family lived for about one year on the Chocolate Bayou producing sugar and cotton.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnc54|title = TSHA | Chocolate Bayou, TX}}

Perry, her husband, and her children settled in Jones Creek, Texas, in present day Brazoria County, Texas and developed Peach Point Plantation also known as "Peach Point"; she lived at Peach Point until she died in 1851.

Perry interacted with Rutherford B. Hayes during his visit to Peach Point Plantation in 1848. Hayes wrote in a letter that Perry was, "an excellent motherly sort of woman, whose happiness consists in making others happy."The Trip to Texas p. 248 http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/chapteriv.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606051642/http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/chapteriv.html |date=2011-06-06 }} Hayes also wrote in a letter to his mother that, "instead of having the care of one family, [Emily] is the nurse, physician, and spiritual adviser of a whole settlement of careless slaves. She feels it is her duty to see to their comfort when sick or hurt."The Trip to Texas, January 1, 1849, (p. 255) http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/chapteriv.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606051642/http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/hayes/chapteriv.html |date=2011-06-06 }}. Some historians argue that Perry's relatively/comparatively favorable treatment of slaves can be generalized to other holders of the time period, while others question whether this generalization is reasonable.

Though they may not themselves have known when they met, Perry was also, via shared descent from Anthony Austin and Esther Huggins, a third cousin once removed of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_4362.asp |title=NEHGS - Articles |access-date=2010-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013082234/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_4362.asp |archive-date=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead }}

Perry was the sole heir to Stephen Fuller Austin following his death.Cantrell, Gregg (2001), Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, p. 381, Yale University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-300-09093-2}} Half the estate went to her immediately and half the "entire estate reverted to Emily" in 1837 upon the death of Brown Austin's eight-year-old son, who happened to be named Stephen F. Austin, Jr. Everything was bequeathed not in James Perry's name and not to her sons, but to Perry, a woman, in 1836. Transferred by bequest, all of Stephen F. Austin's possessions, property and land became Perry's separate property, and not community property. In fact, Perry was meticulous to ensure the Austin estate proceeds, books, and operations were not commingled, thus maintaining their legal characterization as her separate property, rather than community property with her husband (even though her husband, James F. Perry, was executor of Austin's estate).

Accordingly, Perry was one of the largest Texas individual landholders and irrefutably the wealthiest woman in Texas. She was actively involved in management of the Austin estate, including investments and land,{{rp|164–5, 196–7}} actively involved in a time where male signatures were still required on contracts and women could not vote.{{Cite web |url=http://theautry.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/minnie_full.html |title=WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage - Texas |access-date=2010-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713213448/http://theautry.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/minnie_full.html |archive-date=2010-07-13 |url-status=dead }}

Perry was very involved in the urban planning and settling land. For example, she was one of the founders of the San Luis Company, which managed the development of San Luis, including the initial sale of 450 lots, development of streets, building a bridge, and construction of a lighthouse.{{rp|177}}

Perry raised capital and invested in the first attempt{{rp|176}} to build a railroad in Texas: The Brazos and Galveston Railroad Company, chartered by the Congress of the Republic of Texas, on May 24, 1838.{{rp|176}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hva33|title = TSHA | Austinia, TX}} The rail was initially to go from Galveston Bay to the Brazos River, and later plans were for the rail to go from San Luis Island instead of Galveston Bay.{{rp|176}}"Railroad Enterprise in Texas, 1836–1841," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 47 (April 1944). She was the largest shareholder of the first railroad company in Texas. Perry was at the helm of the development and planning of San Luis.

Perry not only owned the league of land which contained Dollar Point, she also managed the development of the town of Austinia, located within that league. Austinia is known in the present day as Texas City.

Perry loaned money to Gail Borden (as in the founder/pioneer of Borden Milk Products) to buy his first herd of cows.

Perry played a key role in founding the first Episcopal Church in Texas. In 1848, she donated to a visitor to Peach Point, Episcopal Bishop George Washington Freeman of Arkansas, in order to help launch the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.{{rp|201}} In addition, she paid to underwrite Leonidas Polk's trip to Texas from Louisiana.{{rp|201}} Polk was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and later served as a General in the American Civil War, ultimately having Fort Polk named in his honor. Perry also donated the land on which the Union Church Building was originally built; this one structure served as a prayer center for Methodists, the Episcopalians, and the Presbyterians.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brazoriafumc.org/fumcstory.html|title=First United Methodist Church of Brazoria|website=www.brazoriafumc.org}}

Perry paid Thomas J. Pilgrim to teach her children;{{rp|115}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=401|title = Guy Morrison Bryan [401]}} Pilgrim started the all-boys school, Austin Academy,{{Cite web |url=http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/innerresidents3o-z2.htm |title=Residents-Gonzales Town-Surnames O-Z 2 |access-date=2010-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729095322/http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/innerresidents3o-z2.htm |archive-date=2010-07-29 |url-status=dead }} in 1829, which was the first school in Texas. Austin Academy had about 40 students.

Perry deeded {{convert|1500|acre|km2}} of land for the support and founding of Austin College.{{rp|184}} In addition, she directed monies owed by the State of Texas to the Austin estate to Austin College. Perry agreed to support her family friend and Austin College Founder Reverend Daniel Baker (who had been Pastor of the Washington, DC Presbyterian church attended by Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams); she supported Baker in his pursuit of expanding religious foundations and education in Texas.{{rp|183}}

Perry's children and their progeny also played important roles in Texas history and the development of the State.{{cite web|url=http://tsr.4101.org/markers/brazoria/78.html |title=TSR: Historical Markers Guide: Brazoria County: Perry, Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan |access-date=2010-02-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205042436/http://tsr.4101.org/markers/brazoria/78.html |archive-date=2008-12-05 }} The surnames of Emily's first husband, James Bryan, and her second husband, James Perry, are each geographic names in Texas. For example, Bryan, Texas is the location of Texas A&M University; Perry's Landing{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvpcw|title = TSHA | Perry Landing, TX}}{{Cite web|url=https://texas.hometownlocator.com/tx/brazoria/perry-landing.cfm|title=Perry Landing Populated Place Profile / Brazoria County, Texas Data|website=texas.hometownlocator.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00543/cah-00543.html|title=A Guide to the James F. and Stephen S. Perry papers, 1785-1942|first=James F. and Stephen S.|last=Perry|website=lib.utexas.edu}} is located in Brazoria County.

Professor of History, Light Townsend Cummins, of Austin College, the official Historian of the State of Texas at the time of this writing, points out that despite her important participation in and contributions to Texas history, there is no collection of letters archived under Emily's name; rather, the collection archived in the 1930s was titled for her husband and son, "the James F. and Stephen S. Perry Papers." Cummins, who has reviewed the papers housed at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, notes that this collection includes "as much of Emily's letters, documents, and papers as those of her husband and son."{{rp|227- FN5}} Cummins points out that the archive was named in the 1930s, and were they named under archiving standards in 2009, they would very likely instead have been called, "The James and Emily Austin Perry Papers."{{rp|227- FN5}}

Perry is buried at Gulf Prairie Cemetery at the site of the present day historical marker in her honor,{{cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p2327.html |title=Texas State Historical Marker for Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry, Gulf Prairie cemetery, Jones Creek; December 1988 |access-date=2010-02-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234044/http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p2327.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }} and beside her brother, Stephen F. Austin.The Weekly News, Sept. 2, 1851, Galveston http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/brazoria/obits/perry-emily.txt Retrieved on March 1, 2010 (Stephen F. Austin's remains were moved to Austin, Texas in 1910).{{Cite web |url=http://www.brazosport.org/index.asp?pg=bpis |title=Brazosport Area Chamber of Commerce |access-date=2010-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409100735/http://www.brazosport.org/index.asp?pg=bpis |archive-date=2010-04-09 |url-status=dead }} An obituary at the time reflects that "Funeral services were

performed by the Rev. Mr. Phillips, of the Methodist Episcopal church."

In 1986, as part of the Texas Sesquicentennial, an historical marker was commissioned in recognition of Perry's contribution to Texas history.{{Cite web|url=http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/78.html|title =Perry, Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522110328/http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/78.html |archive-date=22 May 2008 |url-status=usurped}}

Each year, descendants of the Austin, Bryan, and Perry families from across the country gather in Jones Creek for reunion in celebration of Perry's life and her birthday. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Volume 1, states that on her birthday more than 200 met to "rise up and call her blessed", (applying to Perry the language from the poem, Eishes Chayil (אשת חיל), "A Woman of Valor",Proverbs 31:28 with which King Solomon concludes the Book of Proverbs). Stephen F. Austin, himself, had no children.

Perry is recorded in history by a variety of names which encompass her maiden name, her first marriage name, her second marriage name, a middle initial, and her mother's maiden name. These include:

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• Emily Austin{{Cite book|isbn=978-0875653518|title=Emily Austin of Texas, 1795-1851|last1=Cummins|first1=Light Townsend|year=2009|publisher=TCU Press }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.kxii.com/community/headlines/44324287.html |title=Austin College Historian and Student Film Maker Premiere New Book and Documentary Film about Stephen F. Austin's Sister |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507172653/http://www.kxii.com/community/headlines/44324287.html |archive-date=2009-05-07 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily M. Austin[http://supreme.justia.com/us/113/179/ Bryan v. Kennett, 113 U.S. 179 (1885)] Justia.com{{Cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/brazoria/land/abstract.txt|title=BRAZORIA County Texas}}{{cite web|url=http://donnerproperties.com/pdf/donner-properties-site-pdf-download.pdf|title=Map of oil and gas properties available for leasing - Donner Properties}}Burlage, John and Hollingsworth, John Brian. (1859) Abstract of valid land claims: compiled from the records of the General Land Office, Court of Claims,, Printed by John Marshall and Company at the State Gazette Office, Austin, Texas, p. 649.
• E.M. Austin
• Emily Margaret Austin{{cite web|title=Ancestor Surnames: A |work=Daughters of the Republic of Texas |url=http://www.drt-inc.org/ancestors/anc-a.htm |access-date=10 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118202826/http://www.drt-inc.org/ancestors/anc-a.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2010 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/gene/d0000/g0000615.html |title=I539: Emily Margaret Austin (22 Jun 1795 - 25 Aug 1851) |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307232700/http://www.bchm.org/Gene/d0000/g0000615.html |archive-date=2011-03-07 |url-status=dead }}Tracy, Milton Cook and Havelock-Braile, Milton, The Colonizer: a Sage of Stephen F. Austin, 1941, p. 254
• Emily Margaret Brown Austin
• Emily Brown Austin
• Emily Margaretta Brown Austin{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Herzstein_Library/Manuscripts/Finding_Aids/HB_Perry/|title = San Jacinto Museum of History - Finding Aids | Refine your search to more easily find your materials}}
• Emily M. Bryan{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00543.xml|title = TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions}}
• Emily M. Austin Bryan{{Cite web |url=http://www.srttexas.org/ancestor%20ai.html |title=Genealogy Ancestor Page |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-date=2009-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527151633/http://www.srttexas.org/ancestor%20ai.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.historictexas.net/bios/2b/bryan-william-noel.html |title=Bryan, William Noel |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531005530/http://www.historictexas.net/bios/2b/bryan-william-noel.html |archive-date=2010-05-31 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily Margaret Bryan{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/holdings/collections/collectiononline/exhibit2/e25213a.htm |title=2002.009p.0001 Print, Photographic |access-date=2010-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234522/http://www.bchm.org/holdings/collections/collectiononline/exhibit2/e25213a.htm |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily Margaret Austin BryanLost Plantations of the South, Marc Matrana, p.246) {{ISBN|978-1-57806-942-2}}
• Emily A. Bryan{{Cite web |url=http://www.gulf-prairie.org/Cemetery.htm |title=Cemetery |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135012/http://www.gulf-prairie.org/Cemetery.htm |archive-date=2011-07-26 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily A. PerryThe Filson Club History Quarterly, Volume 30, (1956) Page 323.
• Emily M. Bryan Perry
• Emily Margaret Austin Perry{{Cite web |url=http://www.entechdesign.com/peachpoint.htm |title=Peachpoint |access-date=2010-03-03}}{{dead link|date=September 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}Tomerlin, Jacqueline Beretta, (1981), Fugitive letters, 1829–1836: Stephen F. Austin to David G. Burnet,Trinity University Press (San Antonio, Texas) p. 62 {{ISBN|0-911536-91-4}}
• Emily Austin Bryan{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbrar|title = TSHA | Bryan, Moses Austin}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Herzstein_Library/Manuscripts/Finding_Aids/Bryan/|title = San Jacinto Museum of History - Finding Aids | Refine your search to more easily find your materials}}{{Cite web |url=http://carrollscorner.net/SitesWashCo_PerryCemetery.htm |title=Perry Cemetery |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408010405/http://carrollscorner.net/SitesWashCo_PerryCemetery.htm |archive-date=2010-04-08 |url-status=dead }}The County Jails of Texas, Edward J. Blackburn, 2006 p. 44. {{ISBN|1-58544-308-5}}
• Emily Austin Perry{{rp|227- FN5}}Haley, James L. (2002) Stephen F. Austin and the Founding of Texas, p. 36, {{ISBN|0-8239-5738-1}}Texas cattle brands: a catalog of the Texas centennial exposition exhibit, 1936 By Dallas. Texas centennial central exposition, 1936, Gus L. Ford, p. 7Gregory S., Jack and Strickland, Rennard, Sam Houston with the Cherokees: 1829–1833, 1995, University of Oklahoma Press, p.5{{Cite web |url=http://www.sanbernardriver.com/2008/20080520.htm |title=Gulf Prairie Cemetery |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204182510/http://sanbernardriver.com/2008/20080520.htm |archive-date=2008-12-04 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.gulf-prairie.org/Areamuseums.htm |title=Area Museums and Landmarks |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304004115/http://www.gulf-prairie.org/Areamuseums.htm |archive-date=2012-03-04 |url-status=dead }}Wilhelm, Stephen R., Cavalcade of Hooves and Horns, (1958), p. 29
• Emily M. Austin Perry
• E. M. PerryEndorsement of the Letter from Emily Margaret Perry, Peach Point, to Mr. James F. Perry, Care of Miller & Sumerville, St. Fillip De Austin, May 26, 1835. (sic)The Austin Papers, (1928) Volume II, p. 217
• E. M. P-Letter from Emily Margaret Perry, located in Peach Point, to Mr. James F. Perry, Care of Miller & Sumerville, St. Fillip De Austin, May 26, 1835. (sic)
• Emily PerryCantrell, Gregg (2001), Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, p. 398, Yale University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-300-09093-2}}Gregory, Jack and Strickland, Rennard, Sam Houston with the Cherokees: 1829–1833, 1995, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 5 footnote 11 refers to letter from Emily Drennen to Emily Perry, 1829 which was referenced in Friend, Llerena B., Sam Houston: The Great Designer, p.22{{Cite web|url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMNNM_Site_of_Austinia|title=Site of Austinia - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com|website=www.waymarking.com}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/holdings/collections/collectiononline/exhibit2/e25215b.htm |title=2002.009p.0003 Print, Photographic image |access-date=2010-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234552/http://www.bchm.org/holdings/collections/collectiononline/exhibit2/e25215b.htm |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/wma/find_a_wma/list/?id=41|title = Justin Hurst WMA}}Chadwick, Elizabeth, (1992) Bride Fire, p. 234 {{ISBN|0-7592-4379-4}}
• Emily M. Perry{{Cite web |url=http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/slaveryletters.htm#austinemily |title=Correspondence Concerning Slavery in Texas |access-date=2010-03-03 |archive-date=2010-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703152656/http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/slaveryletters.htm#austinemily |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbrat|title = TSHA | Bryan, William Joel}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/Documents/d3775.html |title=Oath sworn by Guy M. Bryan, Moses Austin Perry, when recording the last will and testament of Emily M. Perry |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234607/http://www.bchm.org/Documents/d3775.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/0097.pdf |title=Dunklin, Daniel (1790-1844), Papers, 1815-1877 |website=shs.umsystem.edu |access-date=June 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927173956/http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/0097.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-27 |url-status=dead}}Texas: a guide to the Lone Star State By Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Texas, (1969) pp. 570 and 707
• Emily M. B. Austin"Annual Report of the American Historical Association", Volume 029, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, p. 3
• Emily M. B. Perry
• Emily Margaret Perry{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Herzstein_Library/Manuscripts/Finding_Aids/EM_Perry/|title = San Jacinto Museum of History - Finding Aids | Refine your search to more easily find your materials}}
• Emily Bryan{{Cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fau12|title = TSHA | Austin, Moses}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.communityalmanac.org/Herculaneum-MO/Timeline |title=Timeline - Herculaneum, MO - Community Almanac |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221134238/http://www.communityalmanac.org/Herculaneum-MO/Timeline |archive-date=2010-12-21 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily Austin Bryan Perry{{Cite web|url=http://historianoftexas.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html|title=An Historian of Texas|website=historianoftexas.blogspot.com}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.historicmarkers.com/tx/46476-Durazno-Plantation |title=Durazno Plantation |access-date=2010-03-02 }}{{dead link|date=September 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}
• Emily Margaret Austin Perry Bryan"J.P. Bryan Authors Article," The Alcade, 1965, p. 31
• Emily Margaret Austin Bryan Perry{{Cite web|url=http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/txhistoryscope.php|title = - Dolph Briscoe Center for American History}}{{Cite web |url=http://libweb.sfasu.edu/proser/etrc/collections/manuscript/personal/austinstephenf/ |title=Stephen F. Austin Letters - Ralph W. Steen Library |access-date=2010-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716212143/http://libweb.sfasu.edu/proser/etrc/collections/manuscript/personal/austinstephenf/ |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p1368.html |title=Portrait of Emily Margaret Austin Bryan Perry, sister of Stephen F. Austin |access-date=2010-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234448/http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p1368.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}
• Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry{{Cite web |url=http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p4235.html |title=Historical Marker for Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry in Gulf Prairie cemetery at Peach Point |access-date=2010-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234529/http://www.bchm.org/Photos/p4235.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 |url-status=dead }}

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In addition to the above, there are still other references to Emily by just her first name, as well as references without use of her given, marital or personal name, i.e. "and wife" or "his wife," "Miss", "Mrs." and "Ms." all of which are not here provided.

Perry had a unique penmanship style. Her penmanship style from letters and writings were reduced to a single typeset font for word processing purposes. The Emily Austin font has been used in actual published literature.McCourt, Richard M. and Spame, Earle E., (2004) Jefferson's Botanists: Lewis and Clark Discover the Plants of the West, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, p. 25 {{ISBN|0-910006-59-8}}

Perry and her brother, Stephen F. Austin, themselves descended from several noteworthy people including: Moses Austin (father—biography published by Trinity University Press),Gracy, David B., Moses Austin: his life (Trinity University Press, 1987) {{ISBN|0-911536-84-1}} Abia Brown (grandfather), Joseph Sharp (great grandfather), Isaac Sharp (great, great grandfather), Anthony Sharp (great, great, great grandfather—biography published by Stanford University Press).{{cite book|last=Greaves|first=Richard L.|title=Dublin's merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643–1707|year=1998|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, CA|isbn=978-0-8047-3452-3}} Accordingly, history records noteworthy social contribution in each generation of Perry's family dating back to the early 17th century.

Some additional background, Perry's father, Moses was the son of Elias Austin & Eunice Phelps; Elias was the son of Richard Austin & Dorothy Adams; Richard was the son of Anthony Austin & Esther Huggins, Jacob Adams & Anna Allen; Richard Austin & Elizabeth Betsy Austin (born 1610),{{Cite web |url=http://www.theharmons.us/harmon_t/b970.htm |title=Genealogy |access-date=2010-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224070606/http://www.theharmons.us/harmon_t/b970.htm |archive-date=2010-02-24 |url-status=dead }} John Huggins & Bridget Green (gave birth to Esther Huggins), Robert Adams & Eleanor ___, Nicholas Allen & Martha Allen (gave birth to Anna Allen).

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• Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924–28).
• David B. Gracy II, Moses Austin: His Life (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1987).
• {{Citation|last=Jones|first=Marie Beth|title=Peach Point Plantation: The First 150 Years|publisher=Texian Press|year=1982|isbn=0-9630042-0-4}}
• James Franklin and Stephen Samuel Perry Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. E. W. Winkler, ed.
• "The Bryan-Hayes Correspondence," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 25 (October 1921 – April 1922).

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