Dare County Photographs
Photograph contributed by Amy Midgett Gamiel

Leon H. & Eva (O'Neal) Perry

Leon Hardy Perry, son of Frederick Perry and Bertha Mae Etheridge, was born Feb. 5, 1903 in Kitty Hawk.  He married Eva Leola O'Neal on April 18, 1923 and they had 5 children.  Eva was the daughter of George Washington O'Neal and Ella Frances Tillett.  She was born in Kitty Hawk Dec. 22, 1905 and died July 6, 1993.  Leon died in Kitty Hawk on Dec. 26, 1968.  Both are buried in the Austin Cemetery in Kitty Hawk.