Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia
Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 3Berry Unknown
Gen 4Robert T Berry — Coosa County, Alabama

Generation 4 Robert T Berry

Born
c. 1849, Coosa County, Alabama
Married
Dorothy Ann Robinson
Parents
Susan Roberson (father unknown, Berry line via YDNA)
  • Robert T Berry has a descendant who matches My William Berry YDNA by 66 of 77 markers At the present time we do not know who his father was but here is what we do Know
  1. Robert Berry and Mary Williamson Princess Ann County Virginia
  2. Robert Berry and Elizabeth Cate Orange County NC
  3. Berry Unknown
  4. Robert T Berry (Susan Roberson is Robert T Berry’s mother)

What we know

  • Ruben and Elizabeth Blankenship Coosa County Alabama
  • Edith Blankenship is the daughter of Ruben and Elizabeth Blankenship
  • Edith Blankenship Married Thomas Roberson in Bibb County Alabama July 9 1823
  • Susan Roberson was living with her mother Eda (Edith) Roberson was living on the next farm adjoining her Father and Mother and listed head of household in the 1850 Coosa County Alabama Census shown below and her husband Thomas Roberson was gone.
1850 Census record showing Susan Roberson in Coosa County, Alabama
1870 Census record showing D.A. Roberson age 8

D A Roberson was Dorothy Ann Roberson Age 8 and the daughter of Elishia Roberson Age 48 as seen in the above 1870 Census. This means she was born in 1862.

June 5, 1880 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family

Something happened to Thomas Roberson between 1830 and 1850 because Eda Roberson was still listing her married name in the 1850 Census above. Robert Roberson age 3/12 is really Robert T Berry who was born in 1849.

Marriage record for Robert T. Berry
June 29, 1900 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family
April 26, 1910 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family
January 12-13, 1920 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family
April 7, 1930 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family
April 1, 1940 Census chart for Robert T. Berry family
Marriage record for Susan Roberson
Find A Grave record for Sarah E. and William

In 1920 Robert T Berrys wife was listed as Mary Ann. This led to speculation that Robert T Berry had remarried. In the chart below the birth year was the same. Dorothy Ann Robinson Berry is buried beside her Husband

Chart showing Dorothy Ann Robinson Berry birth and death dates
Find A Grave memorial for Robert T. Berry

Sarah E Berry was likely named Sarah Elizabeth Berry and nicknamed Lizzie by her family. She was not with the family in every census but was listed as Sarah E Berry in most of them She was the daughter of Robert T and Dorothy Ann Berry. The chart below should explain that Lizzie Berry and Sarah E. Berry is really the same person

Chart showing Sarah Elizabeth Berry McWilliams identity
Social Security record for Mrs. Dotha Ann Berry, 1940