George Berry [Parents] was born on 27 Jan 1785 in Nelson Co, KY. He died after 1861. He married Elizabeth "Sukey" McMahan on 17 Sep 1804 in Logan Co, KY.
Residences & events:
1800 Logan Co, KY, was his residence at tax time but no township was listed. However, the census taker did not find him that year. He was gone by 1810.
(This entry may not belong to this George Berry)
4/26.1816 Gallatin Co, IL, was his address when he bought 160 acres at a federal sale for $2/acre.12/24/1817 White Co, IL. He had moved by the time he bought more county land, again at a federal sale. This time he bought 172.40 acres for $2/acre.
1818 White Co, IL. At census time he lived down the road from his brother, Enoch, and had in his house, 2 males over 21 (maybe another brother?) and 6 other whites.
1820 The census taker found him at the same place. The other male over 21 had departed but the 6 other whites were still there.
10/8/1851 Still amassing land, he added another 40 acres by warranty deed.
He was buying land that year.
Elizabeth "Sukey" McMahan was born about 1785 in Logan Co, KY. She married George Berry on 17 Sep 1804 in Logan Co, KY.
Joseph Covington was born on 4 Apr 1789 in Rockingham/Richmond Co, NC. He died on 20 Nov 1860 in Rockfield, Warren Co, KY. He married Nancy L Berry on 11 Sep 1809 in Logan Co, KY.
Nancy L Berry [Parents] was born on 5 Apr 1789 in Nelson Co, KY. She died in Warren Co, KY probably. She married Joseph Covington on 11 Sep 1809 in Logan Co, KY.
Francis M Berry [Parents] was born on 7 Sep 1790 in Nelson Co, KY. He died in Dec 1881 in probably Butler Co, KY. He married Rebecca Reed on 31 Mar 1815 in Butler Co, KY.
Both sons were married there mid 1800s.
Rebecca Reed was born about 1796 in Berry's Lick, Butler Co, KY. She died in Butler Co, KY. She married Francis M Berry on 31 Mar 1815 in Butler Co, KY.
They had the following children:
M i James R Berry was born on 25 Apr 1818. M ii Jasper C Berry was born on 2 Sep 1837.
Nathan T Thomas was born about 1788 in Logan Co, KY. He married Jane Jean Berry on 12 Feb 1810 in Russellville, Logan Co, KY.
Jane Jean Berry [Parents] was born on 10 Jul 1792 in Nelson Co, KY. She married Nathan T Thomas on 12 Feb 1810 in Russellville, Logan Co, KY.
James Womack [Parents] was born in 1791 in Bowling Green, Butler Co, KY. He died in 1868 in Wayne Co, IL. He married Elizabeth "Betsy" Berry on 15 Aug 1811 in Butler Co, KY.
James was a farmer.
Residences & events:
Bowling Green, Butler Co, KY where he was born.
1825 Wayne Co, IL where he lived until his death.
The biography of son, Presley, says both his parents were natives of Bowling Green.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Berry [Parents] was born on 6 Jan 1794 in Logan Co, KY. She died in 1878 in Wayne Co, IL. She married James Womack on 15 Aug 1811 in Butler Co, KY.
They had the following children:
M i Presley Berry Womack was born on 29 Jan 1830.
Charles Bunch was born in 1793 in VA. He died in 1859 in KY. He married Frances "Franky" Berry on 17 Aug 1813 in Warren Co, KY.
Frances "Franky" Berry [Parents] was born on 19 Jan 1796 in Logan Co, KY. She married Charles Bunch on 17 Aug 1813 in Warren Co, KY.
They had the following children:
Male Womack.Male married Agnes "Peggy" Berry.
Agnes "Peggy" Berry [Parents] was born on 19 Nov 1797 in Logan Co, KY. She married Male Womack.
John Berry [Parents] was born on 13 Mar 1803 in Logan Co, KY. He died on 1 Jul 1834 in White Co, IL. He married Delia Eleanor Bruce on 24 Feb 1825 in White Co, IL. John was born about 1805 in KY.
If John belongs to this Enoch, it must have been by a first wife.
Audie Murphy is said to be one of John's direct descendants, originating from Texas. Audie was the most decorated WWII soldier and he also became a movie star, writing and starring in his own autobiography, "To Hell and Back."
Residences & events:
1787 Nelson Co, Ky. This was his first appearance on the county tithables list and his tithe was nothing. Perhaps he was a new arrival and had not had time to gather assets yet. Enoch and William were there as well.
Delia Eleanor Bruce.Delia married John Berry on 24 Feb 1825 in White Co, IL.
They had the following children:
M i Francis Marion Berry was born on 3 Sep 1833 in White Co, IL.
John\William Womack was born about 1700 in Halifax Co, VA. He married Mary Elizabeth Farley about 1727.
Mary Elizabeth Farley [Parents] was born in 1707 in Henrico Co, VA. She died after 1730. She was buried in Rawleigh Parish, Amelia Co, VA. She married John\William Womack about 1727.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Womack was born about 1728 in Halifax Co, VA. M ii William Womack was born about 1730 in Halifax Co, VA. M iii Abraham Womack was born about 1731. He died on 6 May 1800.
Robert Stubblefield [Parents] was born in 1702 in Gloucester Co, VA. He died in 1775 in Rockingham Co, NC. He married Ann (Stubblefield) in 1726 in Spotsylvania Co, VA.
The following story may not belong to this Stubblefield family but is too precious to let slip away so is placed here for safe keeping until the proper family can be found.
"Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith, an eighty-three year old negro couple were slaves in kentucky near Paris, Tennessee, as children. They now reside at 127 North Lake Street, on the western limits of South Bend (IN). This couple lives in a little shack patched up with tar paper, tin, and wood.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, the talkative member of the family is a small woman, very wrinkled, with a stocking cap pulled over her gray hair. She wore a dress made of three different print materials; sleeves of one kind, collar of another and body of a third. Her front teeth were discolored, brown stubs, which suggested that she chews tobacco.
Mr. Alex Smith, the husband is tall, though probably he was a well built man at one time. He gets around by means of a cane. Mrs. Smith said that he is not at all well, and he was in the hospital for six weeks last winter.
The wife, Elizabeth or Betty, as her husband calls her, was a slave on the Peter Stubblefield plantation in Kentucky, the nearest town being Paris, Tennessee, while Mr. Smith was a slave on the Robert Stubblefield plantation nearby.
Although only a child of five, Mr. Smith remembers the Civil War, especially the marching of thousands of soldiers, and the horse-drawn artillery wagons. The Stubblefields freed their slaves the first winter after the war.
On the Peter Stubblefield plantation the slaves were treated very well and had plenty to eat, while on the Robert Sutbblefield plantation Mr. Smith went hungry many times, and said, "Often, I would see a dog with a bit of bread, and I would have been willing to take it from him if I had not been afraid the dog would bite me."
Mrs. Smith was named for Elizabeth Stubblefield, a relative of Peter Stubblefield. As a child of five years or less, Elizabeth had to spin "long reels five cuts a day," pick seed from cotton, and cockle burrs from wool, and perform the duties of a house girl.
Unlike the chores of Elizabeth, Mr. Smith had to chop wood, carry water, chop weeds, care for cows, pick bugs from tobacco plants. This little boy had to go barefoot both summer and winter, and remembers the cracking of ice under his bare feet.
The day the mistress and master came and told the slaves they were free to go any place they desired, Mrs. Smith's mother told her later that she was glad to be free but she had no place to go or any money to go with. Many of the slaves would not leave and she never witnessed such crying as went on. Later Mrs. Smith was paid for working. She worked in the fields for 'wittels' and clothes. A few years later she nursed children for twenty-five cents a week and 'wittels,' but after a time she received fifty cents a week, board and two dresses. She married Mr. Smith at the age of twenty.
Mr. Smith's father rented a farm and Mr. Smith has been a farmer all his life. The Smith couple have been married sixty-four years. Mrs. Smith says, 'and never a cross word exchanged. Mr. Smith and I had no children.'
The room the writer was invited into was a combination bed-room and living room with a large heating stove in the centre of the small room. A bed on one side, a few chairs about the room. The floor was covered with an old patched rug. The only other room beside this room was a very small kitchen. The whole home was shabby and poor.
The only means of support the family has is a government old age pension which amounts to about fourteen dollars a month.
Their little shack is situated in the center of a large lot around which a very nice vegetable garden is planted. The property belongs to Mr. Harry Brazy, and the old couple does not pay rent or taxes and they may stay there as long as they live, 'which is good enough for us,' says Mrs. Smith.
As the writer was leaving Mrs. Smith said, 'I like to talk and meet people. Come again.'"
By Henrietta Karwowski, Field Worker, Federal writer's Project, St. Joseph County, District #1, South Bend, Indiana.
Ann (Stubblefield) was born about 1703 in Gloucester Co, VA. She died on 1 Mar 1787 in Bugaboo Creek, Wilkes Co, NC. She married Robert Stubblefield in 1726 in Spotsylvania Co, VA.
They had the following children:
M i George Stubblefield was born before 1728. M ii John Stubblefield was born in 1730. F iii Elizabeth Stubblefield was born in 1736. She died in Mar 1780. M iv Richard Stubblefield was born in 1732. M v Joel Stubblefield was born in 1734. M vi Wyatt Stubblefield was born in 1744. He died in 1824 in Caswell Co, NC. M vii Thomas Stubblefield was born in 1746.