Judge Albert G. and Harriet Elizabeth Grimes Perry
Perry, Falls County, Texas
SH 6 R.O.W.
Year Erected: 1986
Tennessee native Albert G. Perry (1807 - 1874) began the study of law at age
sixteen in his brother's Alabama law office. He became a successful attorney,
but in 1831 left for Texas, settling in Washington, where he opened a law
office. The following year, on January 8, he married Harriet Elizabeth Grimes
(1816 - 1888), the daughter of pioneer Jesse Grimes (1788 - 1866), signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence. In 1826, Harriet had arrived in Texas with
her father and eight siblings, one of whom, Albert Calvin Grimes, later died at
the Alamo. In late 1833 or early 1834, Perry became secretary to the Alcalde at
Sarahville de Viesca in Robertson's Colony (in present Falls County), and in
1835 was first Lt. of a frontier defense Ranger company. He was a member of the
Viesca Committee of Safety, and was a delegate to the Consultation of 1835. The
Perrys lived in Washington from 1836 to 1843, when they moved to Anderson in
present Grimes County. In 1852 they moved to Falls County, where they farmed,
and he was county and district judge. In 1883, when the railroad bypassed the
community of Peyton, a new settlement developed along the rail line and was
named Perry in honor of Albert G. Perry.