Berry
Gazzaway
aka Gassaway
Born in Georgia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Nicholas Gassaway
and Sarah Shipley (Corbin) Gassaway
Brother of
Jermiah Gassaway [half], Edward Gassaway [half], Sarah (Gassaway) Taylor [half], Rebecca (Gassaway) Evatt [half], Enoch Edward Gazzaway, George Washington Gassaway [half] and James Gassaway
Husband of
Mary Polly (Stone) Gazzaway
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
David Prichard Gazzaway, Mary Olivia Gazzaway, Rhonda Lonsbay Gazzaway, William John D. Gazzaway and Elsberry Almarine E. Gazzaway
Died
at about age 68
in Whitfield, Georgia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Mar 2015
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Biography
Burial: Swamp Creek Cemetery,Georgia
Sources
Genealogical History of the Gassaway Family Author: Anna Clay ( Zimmerman ) Rutherford & William Kenneth Rutherford Publication: 1990 Repository: Note: RR 2 Box 3 J, 2101 Forest Ave., Lexington, Mo., 64067 - 9545 Media: Book Page: Pages 17, 30; He was identified as Berry Gazaway in the Company Muster Roll as Private in Capt. Jones’ Company (Whitfield Volunteers) Georgia State Guards of the Confederate Army. He enrolled 1 August 1863 for local defence, to serve from West Point, Georgia, including Atlanta, thence to the Chattahoochee River and including the Cherokee part of Georgia, his military record shows he was mustered out 31 January 1864. Berry was said to have been a very large man, weighing 350 pounds and being 7 feet tall.
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: , Murray, Georgia; Roll: M432_78; Page: 173; Image: 349.
Berry Gazaway Age in 1860: 42 Birth Year: abt 1818 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Tilton, Whitfield, Georgia Gender: Male Post Office: Tilton Household Members: Name Age Berry Gazaway 42 Mary Gazaway 42 Mary O Gazaway 17 Wm J Gazaway 13; Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Tilton, Whitfield, Georgia; Roll: M653_141; Page: 671; Image: 160.
Berry Gassaway; Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Georgia Regiment Name: 40 Georgia Infantry. Regiment Name Expanded: 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry COMPANY: E Rank In: Private Film Number: M226 roll 22. May 25, 1864 Prisoner of War Captured at Resaca. Transferred to Louisville, Ky. Discharged July 21 1865 at Point Look Out. Private in 40 regiment, Ga. Infantry Co. E.
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Militia District 627, Whitfield, Georgia; Roll: M593_183; Page: 162; Image: 324. Next door to John & Sarah Gazaway (prob. son)
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Cove City, Whitfield, Georgia; Roll: T9_171; Family History Film: 1254171; Page: 90.1000; Enumeration District: 196; Image: 0689. Next door to Elsbury & John & Sarah E. Gazaway
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Berry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Berry:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Berry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Berry:
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