John M. C. Perrine of Freehold, son of Elizabeth and Robert Perrine, died on Friday a week ago of paralysis. He was eighty years old and was the oldest of a family of nine children, of whom one sister and two brothers survive. On October 30th, 1844, he married Miss Catherine Louise Lansing of Root, New York. She died five years ago.

Mr. Perrine was a cabinet maker by trade. He conducted an undertaker’s establishment with this business until he sold out to the late William H. Freeman. He had five children, three of whom survive him. The are H. Lansing Perrine of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mrs. Ira D. Shay of Phildaelphia, Pa., and Miss Jennie A. Perrine, who lived with her father.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, March 22, 1899