This Berry family lived in the Hookers Bend Community in Hardin County and were friends with my Watson family. William Robert and Ruby Lena Lee Berry are buried in Oakland Cemetery, Hookers Bend. Mary Ruth always told my Dad that the Watsons and Berrys are related, but I have yet to make the connection except for my GGG Grandfather had a sister who married a Barry or Berry in York Co., SC. Just curious is this is your Berry family. Always wondered who these Berrys descend from but never checked it out. Mary Ruth Berry Thomison Funeral services for Mary Ruth Berry Thomison, 75, will be held at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at Medina First United Methodist Church with Reverend Don Thrasher officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Zion Cemetery in Medina with Replogle-Lawrence Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Thomison died Sunday, August 1, 2004 at her home. She was born in the Hookers Bend Community of Hardin County, daughter of the late William Robert and Ruby Lena Lee Berry. She was educated in the Hardin County Schools and was a 1948 graduate of Lambuth University in Jackson. Mrs. Thomison was a retired school teacher, who began her teaching career in Humboldt, then taught in Morris Chapel and Alamo and settled in Medina along with her late husband John Hollis Thomison, Sr., a longtime principal or the Medina Schools, and retiring in 1985. Mrs. Thomison was a member of Medina First Methodist Church where she had served on several varied church committees. She loved her church! She was an avid supporter of the American Cancer Society serving as a volunteer for the Relay-for-Life and other functions. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Elaine Thomison Deaton and husband Larry Gail Deaton of Medina; a son, John Hollis Thomison, Jr. and wife Rita Karen Bilbrey Thomison of Smithville, AR; two grandchildren, Lindsay Lane Thomison, age 20, and John Hollis Thomison, III, age 14. The family wishes to express a special thank you to Dr. Saloman Asmar and his staff, all the nurses on 9 West of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and Hospice of West Tennessee. Any memorials are requested to be forwarded to the American Cancer Society, c/o Cindy Wilson, P. O. Box 68 Medina, TN38355. Visitation with the family will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. today at the funeral home and from 12:00 noon until service time Wednesday at the church. Replogle-Lawrence Funeral Home Medina, TNA self-appointed family historian and proud of it. You can check out my family's history at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hookersbend/ Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!> From: tnwayne-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: TNWAYNE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 132> To: tnwayne@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:02:31 -0700> > > > Today's Topics:> > 1. Fw: William Berry and Sarah Weatherford (Jerry W. Murphy)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Message: 1> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:35:40 -0600> From: "Jerry W. Murphy" <jwm_genealogy@hotmail.com>> Subject: [TNWAYNE] Fw: William Berry and Sarah Weatherford> To: "TNWAYNE" <TNWAYNE@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <BAY138-DS5BBC1206C693B7356F8D295110@phx.gbl>> > From: dennis hinkle <denlin1943@hotmail.com>> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:44 AM> To: jwm_genealogy@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: William Berry and Sarah Weatherford> > > Thank you for your response. I have been a researcher since 1978 and more > involved since 2001. I am a retired person and have more time to devote to > various genealogy projects.> > I find inconsistances between Goodspeed's History of Wayne Co and what Mr. > Byler wrote on Rootsweb. I am not questioning his abilities; I am > questioning which is to be factual. Goodspeed (1886) wrote that William > Berry came to Tennessee and settled in Hardin Co when he was a boy, with his > mother. There is no mention of John W. Berry who Mr. Byler's believes is > this brother. Both were in Wayne County in 1850 and near the other. If > William and his mother came to Tennessee, was his father dead. If Mr. Byler > is correct, then Williams father lived and died in Mississippi as did his > mother. I just need to find out which is correct. Could this other > William Berry be the unknown William A. Berry that Mr. Byler had little or > no info about?> > The other matter is William's age; he was born in 1806 and not 1814. John > was a younger brother. Mr. Byler may have picked up the 1814 date by > mistake. All census reports show William to be born about 1806. Also, we > are seeking his and Sarah Weatherford Berry's burial location, since he died > 25 Jan. 1870 near Collinwood or Waynesboro. His second wife Lucinda King > Berry is buried in the King Cemetery.> > If you could post this, I would appreciate the help. And I will write to > Mr. Byler also. I am also attaching the comments from Rootsweb below for > your information. Thanks -- dennis hinkle> > Found on Rootsweb from Wayne Co, Tn Historian and Genealogist, Edgar D. > Byler, III, Collinwood, Tennessee> II. The second family of Berry's in Wayne County, Tennessee is that of > William H. Berry and his brother John W. Berry.> a. John W. Berry was born 1812 in Georgia, the son of William and Elizabeth > HALBERT Berry, and died 11 Feb 1882 in Yalobusha County, Mississippi. He > married about 1833/4 in Wayne Co., TN to Jane STOUT (20 Oct 1813-26 Oct > 1878) the daughter of Robert and Nancy Stout of Second Creek, Wayne Co., TN. > Had a large family.> > b. William Henry Berry, John W.'s younger brother, was born 1 Aug 1814 in> Georgia and died in Wayne Co., TN. He married Sarah Weatherford, daughter of> William and Margaret POLK Weatherford. (This is the William Weatherford for> whom Weatherford Creek in Wayne Co., TN is named. He was reputed to be an> uncle of the noted Creek Chief "Red Eagle" who led the Creeks against Andy> Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (AL) in 1814.> > > > > > > > From: dennis hinkle> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:05 PM> To: jwm_genealogy@hotmail.com> Subject: FW: William Berry and Sarah Weatherford> > > I tried to email this to Edby3; but the server returned the emai. Can you > help? -- dennis hinkle> > > > From: denlin1943@hotmail.com> To: edby3@netease.net> Subject: William Berry and Sarah Weatherford> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:03:13 +0000> > > > Good afternoon. I am a researcher and a great, great, great, grandson to > William and Sarah Weatheford Berry of Wayne Co, Tn. I appreciate the > writing found on Rootsweb, Berry, Wayne Co. We have been searching for > information regarding William's parents for years. We knew that his father > had been killed when William was a young boy. Goodspeed's History of Wayne > Co relates that he and his mother came to Tennessee from Georgia. William > was a small boy when they settling in Hardin Co first. And so goes the > history. Georgia Census records for 1810 were burned by the British; so > there was not a good way to find the Berrys. Tax records and land records > have not been helpful because too many Berrys came to Georgia.> > You have William born 1814 and I believe this is not consistant with the US > Census Reports. William's first child was William A. Berry born in 1829. > This would have made William 15 years old and I do not believe that was the > case. We do have William's Will from the Waynesboro Courthouse in which he > names all his children. According to several census reports, William, Sr. > was born in 1806. I accept that John Berry may have been a brother. When I > found them in Wayne Co at the same time; I figured that they had to be > related.> > In searching the Census records for Hardin Co for 1820, the only lady found > that might be William's mother was Hannah Berry with one or two small > children. A Samuel Berry was listed next to her with a young family. > Samuel could be another son or an in-law. William married Sarah about 1827 > and after a few years, they moved to Wayne Co. Joseph Berry was about 3 > years of age according to Goodspeed's histroy. William died 25 Jan. 1870. > His Will was in probate until 1871. John Wyatt Berry was the Administrator > of his Estate.> > Now to the point; do you have source citations for the info on William > Berry's parents. I am referring to William Berry born in Georgia and the > mother that you listed as Elizabeth Halbert Berry? Hannah may have been the > rest of her name. I would appreciate any info regarding the sources.> > Thanks for you time and consideration. -- dennis hinkle > > > > > ------------------------------> > To contact the TNWAYNE list administrator, send an email to> TNWAYNE-admin@rootsweb.com.> > To post a message to the TNWAYNE mailing list, send an email to TNWAYNE@rootsweb.com.> > __________________________________________________________> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the> email with no additional text.> > > End of TNWAYNE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 132> ***************************************