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John Berry (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susanna Aldridge — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL → Texas

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL → Rusk County, TX

Generation 5 John Berry

Born: 1815, Orange or Person County, North Carolina
Died: c. 1862, Rusk County, Texas
Married: Mary Howell (married c. 1838, Fayette County, Alabama)
Parents: George Berry and Susanna Aldridge Berry

John Berry was born in Orange or Person County, North Carolina in 1815. We are positive that he is a descendant of Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry because one of his descendant’s Y-DNA matches the Y-DNA of 13 other known Orange County Berrys. He was first discovered living in Rusk County Texas in the 1860 census but later we found him living in Fayette County, Alabama in 1840. John met and married his wife, Mary Howell in Fayette County, Alabama. They had four children born in Alabama, two daughters and two sons. We have a lot of information on the oldest daughter Sarah Berry but have not located the second daughter. The rest of their children were born in Texas. We have never found an 1850 Census for John and Mary Howell Berry.

John H. Berry ALA TX

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — NC and Fayette County, Alabama

Generation 5 John H. Berry

Born: September 29, 1827, Fayette County, Alabama
Died: October 7, 1904, Burnet County, Texas
Married: Eliza Catherine Dennis — married July 1848, Fayette County, AL
Parents: David Middleton Berry and Didama Box Berry

Lineage#

Gen 1 — Robert and Mary Williamson Berry — Princess Anne County, Virginia
Gen 2 — Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 3 — Robert Jr. and Mary Waggoner Berry — NC and Fayette County, Alabama
Gen 4 — David Middleton and Didama Box Berry — Fayette County, Alabama
Gen 5 — John H. and Catherine Dennis Berry — Alabama and Texas

John H. Berry born September 29, 1827, Fayette Co., AL, m. July 1848 in Fayette Co., AL, Eliza Catherine Dennis, b. January 21, 1828, AL (daughter of Benjamin Dennis and Elizabeth Berry), d. July 21, 1913, bur. Cauble Cemetery, Burnet Co., TX. John died October 7, 1904, Burnet Co., TX, bur. Cauble Cemetery.

Willie Howell Berry Tx

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — NC and Fayette County, Alabama

Generation 7 Willie Howell Berry

Born: February 22, 1882, Henrietta, Clay County, Texas
Died: November 7, 1958, Amherst, Lamb County, Texas
Married: Sarah May Benham — married February 21, 1909
Parents: Alexander Howard Berry and Josephine Prescilla Berry

Lineage#

Gen 1 — Robert and Mary Williamson Berry — Princess Anne County, Virginia
Gen 2 — Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry — Orange County, North Carolina
Gen 3 — Robert Jr. and Mary Waggoner Berry — NC and Fayette County, Alabama
Gen 4 — George and Susan Berry — NC and Fayette County, Alabama
Gen 5 — John and Mary Howell Berry — Alabama and Rusk County, Texas
Gen 6 — Alexander Howell and Josephine Prescilla Berry — Texas
Gen 7 — Willie Howell Berry

Willie Howell Berry was born on February 22, 1882 in Henrietta, Clay County, Texas. He died on November 7, 1958 in Amherst, Lamb County, Texas. Willie Howell Berry and Sarah May Benham were married on February 21, 1909. Sarah May Benham was born on April 29, 1882 in Bloomfield, Indiana and she died on October 22, 1979 in Littlefield, Texas.

Alexander Howard Berry Tx

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Alexander Howard Berry, son of John Berry and Mary Howell Berry#

Ancestors:#

Generation Robert and Mary Williamson Berry
Generation Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry
Generation Robert Jr and Mary Camp Berry
Generation George and Susan Berry
Generation John and Mary Howell Berry

Alexander Howard Berry was born on August 24th 1854 in New Danville, Rusk County Texas.

George Berry (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susanna Aldridge — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL → Texas

Generation 4 George Berry

Born: c. 1790, Orange County, North Carolina
Died: Before 1850, Texas
Married: Susanna Aldridge (married c. 1814)
Parents: Robert Berry Jr. and Mary Waggoner Berry

George Berry was born c. 1790 in Orange County North Carolina. George was killed in Texas before 1850. George had served in the North Carolina Militia in the war of 1812. He enlisted as a private in Capt. John Bradshaw’s Company in the North Carolina Militia. 1814 Muster: 4th Regiment, 7th Company. He was discharged as a private and his service made him eligible for land grants in Fayette County Alabama. George Berry’s service in Texas also made his heirs eligible for more land grants in Texas.

James Emory Taylor (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susan Berry — Fayette County, AL

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — Rusk County, TX

Gen 6Sarah Berry × Robert A. Taylor (3rd Husband) — Galveston, TX

Gen 7James Emory Taylor × Elizabeth Maculine — Rusk County, TX → Galveston, TX

Generation 7 James Emory Taylor

Born: c. 1866, Rusk County, Texas
Married: Elizabeth Maculine (b. May 1872; d. 1954)
Parents: Sarah Berry and Robert A. Taylor

James Emory Taylor

was born about 1866 in Rusk County Texas. On the left is a picture of James Emory Taylor’s mother Sarah Berry Taylor. James Emory Taylor married Elizabeth Maculine who was born in May 1872 and died in 1954. They had six children who would all be the seventh generation from Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry from Orange County North Carolina. The James E. Taylor Family lived in Galveston Texas.

John Berry (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susanna Aldridge — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL → Texas

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL → Rusk County, TX

Generation 5 John Berry

Born: 1815, Orange or Person County, North Carolina
Died: c. 1862, Rusk County, Texas
Married: Mary Howell (married c. 1838, Fayette County, Alabama)
Parents: George Berry and Susanna Aldridge Berry

Leona Berry Borden (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susan Berry — NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — NC, AL → Rusk County, TX

Gen 6Alexander Howard Berry × Josephine Gregory — Texas

Gen 7Leona Berry × Ben Summers / Dick Simpson — Indian Territory → Borden County, TX

Generation 7 Leona Berry

Born: November 19, 1894, Indian Territory
Married: 1st: Ben Summers (m. January 4, 1911; d. 1918) — 2nd: Montgomery 'Dick' Simpson (m. November 27, 1920)
Parents: Alexander Howard Berry and Josephine Priscilla Gregory Berry

Leona Berry was born on November 19, 1894 in Indian Territory. Leona Berry married Ben Summers Jan 4 1911. He died in the 1917 flu epidemic in Colorado. The family heard there was work in Colorado so the A.H. Berrys, the Willie Berrys with son Alec, daughter Hettie and a second son, Willie Howell Jr., born June 2, 1917, the Ben Summers family with three children, Newborn, born 1913, J.C., born 1915 and Maggie born 1917, the Hal Johnsons and seven children, Myrtle, Edith, Lula, Matthew, Albert, WillEtta, and Leola, and the C.L. Johnsons all loaded into covered wagons and went to Pueblo, Colorado. When they arrived at Pueblo, the Hal Johnson, and Ben Summers families loaded their belongings into boxcars and continued on to Rifle, Colorado. A.H. Berry was not well and decided to continue on in the wagons. He was accompanied by the Willie Berry family. The C.L. Johnson family stayed in Pueblo. Rifle was across the mountains from Pueblo and when A.H. and his group reached Salida, Colorado the altitude was too high and he could not breathe. They backed the wheels of the wagons into the river to turn around as the road was too narrow, and returned to Pueblo. When they arrived there was a message waiting for Willie from Hal Johnson asking them to wait as they were returning on the same train they had gone on. They had unloaded nothing but the horses. After they returned to Pueblo the group found jobs and went to work. In a few months A.H. became homesick and wanted to return to Texas. The A.H. Berrys and the Willie Berrys did so at that time, August 1918, but the Johnsons and Summers families did not return with them. Those who stayed in Colorado all came down with the influenza and Ben Summers died. So many people were dying that it was almost a week before he could be buried in Pueblo. A few months after Ben Summers death, Hal Johnson and his family and Leona (Onie) Berry Summers and her children loaded their livestock and belongings into a boxcar and rode the train back to O’Donnell. That was December 1918. When they returned to Texas they again settled in Borden County. Leona and her three children moved into the house with her parents.

On November 27, 1920 Leona (Onie) Summers married Montgomery (Dick) Simpson in Tahoka, Texas.

Mary Frances Crow (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3David J. Berry × Mary Blalock — Orange County, NC → Georgia

Gen 4Thomas Howard Barton × Mary Berry

Gen 5Joshua Crow × Mary Aliceann Elizabeth Barton

Gen 6Mary Frances Crow × Thomas C. Guthrie

Generation 6 Mary Frances Crow

Married: Thomas C. Guthrie
Parents: Joshua Crow and Mary Aliceann Elizabeth Barton Crow

Mary Frances Crow married Thomas C. Guthrie.

Ruby Alyene Hunt (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3David J. Berry × Mary Blalock — Orange County, NC → Georgia

Gen 4Thomas Howard Barton × Mary Berry

Gen 5Joshua Crow × Mary Aliceann Elizabeth Barton

Gen 6Thomas C. Guthrie × Mary Frances Crow

Gen 7Lonnie Joseph Hunt × Lela Guthrie

Gen 8Ruby Alyene Hunt × Robert Raymond Vinson — Minden, Rusk County, TX

Generation 8 Ruby Alyene Hunt

Born: July 22, 1916, Minden, Rusk County, Texas
Died: November 7, 1982, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas
Married: Robert Raymond Vinson (b. November 25, 1903; d. June 13, 1979)
Parents: Lela Guthrie Hunt and Lonnie Joseph Hunt

Ruby Alyene Hunt

Ruby Alyene Hunt was born on July 22nd 1916 in Minden, Rusk County Texas and died on November 7th 1982 in Henderson, Rusk County Texas. She married Robert Raymond Vinson who was born on November 25th 1903 in New London, Rusk County Texas. Robert died on June 13th 1979 in Henderson, Rusk County Texas. They are buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery between Henderson and Overton in Rusk County.

Sarah Berry (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susan Berry — NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — NC, AL → Rusk County, TX

Gen 6Sarah Berry × Hiram Howard / Francis McClure / Robert Taylor / Henry Stoneham / Henrick Dippold — Alabama → Rusk County, TX → Galveston, TX

Generation 6 Sarah Berry

Born: April 20, 1839, Alabama
Died: June 5, 1917, Galveston, Texas
Married: 1st: Hiram Howard (m. 1853) — 2nd: Francis M. McClure (m. 1859) — 3rd: Robert A. Taylor (m. 1863) — 4th: Henry B. Stoneham (m. 1868) — 5th: Henrick Dippold (m. 1880)
Parents: John Berry and Mary Howell Berry

She was born on April 20, 1839 in Alabama and died in

Galveston Texas on June 5th 1917. We were able to find Sarah Berry Dippold’s grave in 2006 while I was staying in Houston for medical reasons. The grave is located in the Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery which is located in Galveston Texas. She is buried in Block # 100 plot 18 of that Cemetery. I was unable to locate her husband but he may still be buried there. This Cemetery has been raised several times, as it keeps sinking they haul in more dirt. Each family is responsible to see that their relatives headstones are

raised to the new level. If the family does not assume that responsibility the grave is covered with dirt and is no longer visible. The sinking of the Island is caused by removal of oil from the surface below. Sarah was married five times. This was during the period of the civil war and may be the reason so many of them died. She married her first husband Hiram Howard on November 24th 1853.

Sarah married her second husband, Francis M. McClure on January 5th 1859. On May 18th 1863 Sarah married her third husband Robert A. Taylor. Sarah married her fourth husband, Henry B. Stoneham on August 29 1868. She married her fifth husband Henrick Dippold on February 15th 1880.

Susan Berry Ala and Tx

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — NC → Fayette County, Alabama

Gen 4George Berry × Susan Berry — Fayette County, Alabama

Gen 5Susan Berry × Moses Ray — Alabama → Mississippi → Arkansas → Texas

Generation 5 Susan Berry

Born: 1834, Alabama
Died: After 1880, Gregg County, Texas
Married: Moses Ray (married c. January 1849)
Parents: George Berry and Susan Berry, Fayette County, Alabama

SUSAN BERRY was born in 1834 in Alabama. Susan Berry was probably 15 years old when she married Moses Ray. They were most likely married in January 1849. Their first daughter Sarah E Ray was born in November 1849. Sarah E. Ray was listed as eleven months old in October 1850. Susan and Moses had six children. Susan died after 1880 in Gregg Texas.

Willie Howell Berry Jr. (TX)

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Gen 1 Robert Berry × Mary Williamson — Princess Anne County, Virginia

Gen 2 Robert Berry × Elizabeth Cate — Orange County, North Carolina

Gen 3Robert Berry Jr. × Mary Waggoner — Orange County, NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 4George Berry × Susan Berry — NC → Fayette County, AL

Gen 5John Berry × Mary Howell — Fayette County, AL

Gen 6Alexander Howell Berry × Josephine Prescilla — Texas

Gen 7Willie Howell Berry × Sarah May — Texas

Gen 8Willie Howell Berry Jr. × (Living Wilson) — Berry Flat, Borden, TX

Generation 8 Willie Howell Berry Jr.

Born: June 2, 1917, Berry Flat, Borden, Texas
Married: (Living Wilson)
Parents: Willie Howell Berry and Sarah May Berry

Willie H

owell Berry Jr. was born on June 2nd 1917 in Berry Flat, Borden Texas. He married (Living Wilson.) The picture on the right was taken in Colorado in 1982. Some of the Willie Howell Berry’s Descendants. The picture on the left is Willie Howell Berry Jr., his wife and young niece. Click on the Pictures to see a larger view. The picture on the lower right is W.H. Berry Jr. and his wife on his 70th birthday.