William Berry

Male 1780 - 1857  (76 years)


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  • Name William Berry 
    Born 17 Aug 1780  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 1691 
    Died 14 Jun 1857  Tippah, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1691  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Hudson Berry,   b. 30 Sep 1752, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1840  (Age 87 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sarah Anthony,   b. 3 Nov 1753, Hanover, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1842, Greenville, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F2811  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Halbert,   b. 6 Jan 1788, Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jul 1861, Tippah, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Children 
     1. Hudson Berry,   b. 5 Aug 1806, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Dec 1813, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)  [natural]
     2. Joel Halbert Berry,   b. 11 Feb 1808, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1875, Prentiss, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  [natural]
     3. Sarah Anthony Berry,   b. 28 Nov 1809, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1869, Prentiss, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)  [natural]
     4. Harriet Elvira Berry,   b. 29 May 1812, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1873  (Age 61 years)  [natural]
     5. William Henry Berry,   b. 1 Aug 1814, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     6. James Furman Berry,   b. 28 Oct 1816, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1860, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years)  [natural]
     7. Elizabeth Susan Berry,   b. 21 Mar 1819, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 1860  (Age 40 years)  [natural]
     8. Mary Teresa Berry,   b. 16 Jan 1821, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1873, Conway, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)  [natural]
     9. Nathan Manly Berry,   b. 15 Apr 1824, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     10. Micajah Franklin Berry,   b. 13 Oct 1826, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     11. Matilda Frances Caroline Berry,   b. 15 May 1829, Anderson, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jan 1859, Tippah, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F2810  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 17 Aug 1780 - North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
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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