Blackburn Henderson Berry (1814 - 1893)

Born 19 Nov 1814 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza M. (Polson) Berry — married 26 Sep 1833 in Lincoln Co., Tennessee

Husband of Caldonia Gordon (Davis) Berry — married 1854 in Arkansas

Descendants

Died 25 Jul 1893 at age 78 in Lincoln, Placer Co., California

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Biography

Family

Husband: Thomas Berry

Wife: Elizabeth Martin McFERRIN

Marriage:

Date: 18 APR 1799

Place: Washington Co., Virginia

Note: Charles Cummings, Minister^[1]

Note: #N5073

Child: John Berry

Child: William Martin Berry

Child: James McFerrin Berry

Child: Hugh Campbell Berry

Child: Arianna Berry

Child: Gilbert Russell Berry

Child: Samuel Berry

Child: Blackburn Henderson Berry

Child: Mary Stovell Berry

Child: Amanda H. Berry

Child: Thomas David Berry

Occupation

Occupation: Methodist Minister

Burial

Burial:

Place: Rio Oso Cemetery In Rio Oso, California

Notes

Founded Berryville, Arkansas
Reported to have had 18 living children.
Moved to California remarried and died there. Taken from the Carroll Co Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1992: History does not record for us an exact date for the arrival of Blackburn and Eliza in Carroll Co. AR. It is known that this pioneer settler was in Section 17, Township 20, Range 25, west of the Kings River, as of Oct. 16, 1849, since US Postal Records indicate that he was officially named as the Postmaster of the Ashley Post Office on that date. The Ashley Post Office was discontinued on 5/7/1852, and moved to Berryville to become the Berryville Post Office. Berryville, the city, was born during 1850, taking it's name from Blackburn Henderson Berry, after--according to legend at least--he acquired at least one tract of land from an even earlier settler, Joel Plumlee, and it has often been said that at least a portion of that Plumlee tract embraced what is today the Berryville Public Square. Blackburn Henderson Berry acquired acreage in Township 20, Range 24 in 2 ways: Some of the land he owned he acquired by cash entry, or that is to say he purchased it from the Federal Government; and in other instances he took advantage of the Choctaw Script Act of 1842, to acquire land once owned by Choctaw Indians. In total, Berry amassed 3,871.15 acres of land that is to day within the present geographical confines of Carroll County, AR, through these actions at the Federal Land Office before he left the area--he also owned several thousand acres in that area that was taken from Carroll County in 1869 to form present-day Boone Co. The "Old Berryville Cemetery" site was contained in a parcel of land that Blackburn Henderson Berry obtained under the terms of the Choctaw Script Act of 1842. Four years after Blackburn Henderson Berry and others had laid out the original town site, in early April 1854, Eliza (Polson) Berry, his wife, died and was laid to rest in this historic cemetery after her untimely demise at the age of 36 on 3-30-1854 from typhoid fever.

Ancestral File Number

Ancestral File Number: AFN: 1NBB-5GK

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S1505

See also:

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDKX-2PJ : accessed 27 May 2016), Blackburn H Berry, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNX7-Y36 : accessed 27 May 2016), Henderson Berry, California, United States; citing p. 5, family 33, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,592.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Jim Berry for creating WikiTree profile Berry-4313 through the import of GGGUncle_Wm_Martin_Berry_desc.ged on Dec 9, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.