William Berry
1780 - 1857 (76 years)-
Name William Berry Born 17 Aug 1780 North Carolina, USA Gender Male Reference Number 1691 Died 14 Jun 1857 Tippah, Mississippi, USA Person ID I1691 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Father Hudson Berry, b. 30 Sep 1752, Virginia, USA , d. 13 Jan 1840 (Age 87 years) Relationship natural Mother Sarah Anthony, b. 3 Nov 1753, Hanover, Virginia, USA , d. 26 Apr 1842, Greenville, South Carolina, USA (Age 88 years) Relationship natural Family ID F2811 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Halbert, b. 6 Jan 1788, Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 8 Jul 1861, Tippah, Mississippi, USA (Age 73 years) Children 1. Hudson Berry, b. 5 Aug 1806, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 13 Dec 1813, Anderson, South Carolina, USA (Age 7 years) [natural] 2. Joel Halbert Berry, b. 11 Feb 1808, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 22 Mar 1875, Prentiss, Mississippi, USA (Age 67 years) [natural] 3. Sarah Anthony Berry, b. 28 Nov 1809, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 11 Nov 1869, Prentiss, Mississippi, USA (Age 59 years) [natural] 4. Harriet Elvira Berry, b. 29 May 1812, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 9 Oct 1873 (Age 61 years) [natural] 5. William Henry Berry, b. 1 Aug 1814, Anderson, South Carolina, USA [natural] 6. James Furman Berry, b. 28 Oct 1816, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 31 May 1860, Mississippi, USA (Age 43 years) [natural] 7. Elizabeth Susan Berry, b. 21 Mar 1819, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. Feb 1860 (Age 40 years) [natural] 8. Mary Teresa Berry, b. 16 Jan 1821, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 22 Nov 1873, Conway, Arkansas, USA (Age 52 years) [natural] 9. Nathan Manly Berry, b. 15 Apr 1824, Anderson, South Carolina, USA [natural] 10. Micajah Franklin Berry, b. 13 Oct 1826, Anderson, South Carolina, USA [natural] 11. Matilda Frances Caroline Berry, b. 15 May 1829, Anderson, South Carolina, USA , d. 26 Jan 1859, Tippah, Mississippi, USA (Age 29 years) [natural] Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F2810 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - His parents were Hudson Berry, b. Sep 30, 1752, Va., and d. Jan 13, 1840 and Sarah Anthony, b. Nov 3, 1753, Hanover Co., Va., and d. Apr 26, 1842, Greenville Co., SC. Hudson's parents were John Berry
and Rebecca ______. Sarah's parents were John Anthony and Elizabeth Clark.
Following his marriage with Elizabeth Halbert, William Berry, with the help of slave labor and lumber form his father's saw mill, built a home on land aquired by his father on Generostee Creek. They would help in 1826, with land donoted by Hudson Berry and his son David, with the establishment of the Generostee Baptist church. All of the 11 children of William Berry, and his wife Elizabeth, were born on Generostee Creek.
In 1844, four years after his brother David had moved to Mississippi,William Berry and his wife sold their plantation home on Generostee Creek in Anderson County, SC, and together with their six married children and five single children moved to Pontotoc County, Mississippi. They settled near his brother in the Cherry Creek community.
William had aquired about ten slaves through the estates of his fatherand the parents of his wife. This workforce armed with the cross-cut saws, axes, broad axes, hand saws, hammers, and froes that hey broughtwith them, allowed them to quickly set up a new life for themselves in rural Mississippi.
1850 census
William Berry District 2, Tippah, MS abt 1777 North Carolina
Elizabeth Berry District 2, Tippah, MS abt 1789 South Carolina
- His parents were Hudson Berry, b. Sep 30, 1752, Va., and d. Jan 13, 1840 and Sarah Anthony, b. Nov 3, 1753, Hanover Co., Va., and d. Apr 26, 1842, Greenville Co., SC. Hudson's parents were John Berry