Jennie S. Perkins

Jennie S. Perkins from The Biographical Dictionary of America Jennie Saunders Perkins (1832–1912) was an American poet.

Biography She was born near Purdy, Tennessee, on April 8, 1832, the daughter of Lindsey and Martha Ann (Landreth) Saunders; she was descended from settlers who had come to Chatham County, North Carolina, near the close of the eighteenth century and had moved to McNairy County, Tennessee, in 1825. She attended common school and developed a literary taste at an early age, and before the Civil War, many of her poems were published in the leading papers of the South, over the signature of "Jennie S.," and attracted attention. General Marcus Joseph Wright, a native of her county and a resident of Memphis, was prominent in the business and literary circles of his adopted city, and having seen some of her poems, became interested in the success of his former neighbor and advised and encouraged her.