The earliest known ancestor, William Berry, was born about 1800 in Virginia. He married Catherine Smidt who was born about 1809 in Germany. Their oldest son, Joseph Smith Berry was born in 1827 in Wythe Co., Virginia. Other known children were Mary C. Berry, born about 1832 in Illinois, Nancy E. Berry, b. about 1839 in Illinois, Ellen Berry, b. about 1847 in Illinois and William Rufus Berry, born about 1849 in Illinois. This family was in Wayne County, Illinois by 1840, where William Berry died in Fairfield in October, 1873.

November 8, 2008

Proximity of this line to other Berry lines may be seen by referring to this genetic distance table:    click .

© 2008 Berry DNA Biography Project
Authored by Carol Vass [email protected]
   & K. Waterhouse [email protected]
edited by jim berry [email protected]