My great grandfather, Thomas Grimes Perry, was born in North Carolina in approximately 1836. In 1861, he joined a wagon train in Missouri that ultimately took him to California. On the wagon train, he met and married my great grandmother, Melissa Dale Williams. They first reside in Napa with one of his sisters, move to Newville, CA where they live for several years before moving to Bakersfield. I have been trying to find his ancestors in North Carolina with no success. Some relatives think his father's name was William Perry. 1850 Federal Census records show a 14-year-old Thomas Perry residing with a Sarah W. Perry. Any help that anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.