Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia
Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 3Joshua Berry × Nancy Ellison — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 4Lewis Berry × Sally Toler — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 5Ira Berry × Nancy Wynn — NC and Kentucky
Gen 7Kate Berry × Benjamin Franklin Moake — Kentucky → Williamson County, Illinois

Generation 7 Kate Berry

Born
August 12, 1896, Sebree, Webster County, Kentucky
Died
August 22, 1966, Williamson County, Illinois
Married
Benjamin Franklin Moake (born August 18, 1892, died February 9, 1979)
Parents
Franklin Pierce Berry and Sophia M. Sellers Berry, Kentucky

The Story of Kate Berry#

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Moake and Kate Berry Moake

Kate Berry Was born Aug 12, 1896 Sebree, Webster Co., Ky, she died Aug 22, 1966 and is buried at Lake Creek Cemetery, Williamson Co., Illinois. Kate married Benjamin Franklin Moake in Williamson Co, Illinois, son of Eziekel Moake and Dell Everett. He was born August 18, 1892 in Lake Creek, Williamson Co., Illinois, and died February 09, 1979 in Williamson Co., Illinois. In 1941, Kate had her birth certificate replaced, the witnesses for her were A.M. Sellers, an uncle age 75, Samuel Hansford husband of Rebecca Sellers and G.W. Bronson, a non relative age 80 years. The certificate is listed as #175914 in the bureau of vital statistics, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Webster Co.


Children of Kate Berry

  1. 1. Donovan Jack Moake
    Born July 16, 1914, Lake Creek, Williamson County, Illinois — Died March 22, 1985, Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois
  2. 2. Lorene Moake
    Born February 16, 1916, Lake Creek, Williamson County, Illinois — Died 2007
  3. 3. Robert Moake
    Born January 2, 1918, Lake Creek, Williamson County, Illinois — Died March 15, 1985, Los Angeles, California

Census Records

Kate Berry was listed in her father's census in 1900 and her mother's census in 1910, then married by 1920.

  • 1900 — Katherine “Katie” Berry, 3 years old, was listed in her father’s Webster County Kentucky Census
  • 1910 — Katherine “Kate” Berry was 13 years old in the Williamson County Illinois Census
  • 1920 — Kate is married in the 1920 census
  • 1930 — Not located in 1930 census at this time