Name: dalesfan8 -- Berry & Rose Families

Updated: 07-26-2020 19:07:78. Owner: Jenny Wade


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. James W Berry: Birth: 26 MAR 1840 in Hawkins Co,TN. Death: 20 NOV 1889 in Grapevine cemetery,TX

  2. John A Berry: Birth: 1844 in TN. Death: 18 DEC 1889 in Grapevine Cemetery,TX

  3. William Mack Berry: Birth: 1845 in TN. Death: 8 JAN 1909 in Rogersville,TN Ebbing and Flowing cemetery

  4. Robert Wilson Berry: Birth: SEP 1847 in TN. Death: 14 OCT 1916 in Denton County,TX

  5. Tilman Henry Berry: Birth: 30 JAN 1848 in TN. Death: 4 APR 1924 in Grapevine,TX

  6. Elbert C Berry: Birth: 1853 in TN.

  7. Mary Elizabeth Berry: Birth: 11 OCT 1855 in TN. Death: 6 JUN 1921 in Coopers Creek Cemetery,Denton county TX

  8. Thomas Jefferson Berry: Birth: 1856 in TN. Death: 16 MAY 1942 in Big Stone Gap,VA Legion Mem Cemetery

  9. Jesse Dayton Berry: Birth: 1860 in TN.

  10. Martha Emma Berry: Birth: 1861 in TN. Death: 30 JUL 1933 in Shilo Cemetery,TX (?Denton,TX)


Sources
1. Title:   GEDCOM File : 1996819.ged

Notes
a. Note:   Church on Nov 24, 1846.
 In January 1864, during a church service at Rock Castle Baptist Church (Kyles Ford, TN) men burst into the church with guns levied at the people there. Thy dragged Rev Berry from his pulpit to the outside of the church. An older man, Mr Gulley, tried to help Rev Berry, and Gulley was severely injured and left for dead. He later recovered to tell this story, and told it to his death.
 "One of Rev Berry's sons, Thomas, who was 8 yrs old, got the poker from the wood stove and tried to help his father fight the intruders. Rev Berry was taken out of the church, a wire put around his neck, and he was dragged behind a mule until his body lodged between two rocks. The murderers left him there to die. Martha, her children, and church members carried Jesse home. He was near death. A short time later, the murderers returned to make sure Jesse was dead. Finding him so near death, they started to leave. When one of them picked up Jesse's black hat, Martha jumped from beside her dying husband andhit him. The man said, "I guess I wouldn't kill a woman."
 Rev Berry died later that day and was buried close to the church. His grave is unmarked at this time.
Note:   Rev Jesse D. Berry was ordained to preach at Richardson's Creek Baptist

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