Mr William Berry Jr

• General Notes
  • "...was a Deacon of the Baptist church for many years...he was the first settler in what was afterward called the Berry neighborhood- West Paris about 1800, beginning on the farm now (1884) occupied by George H. Briggs, and lived there the rest of his life..."
    "...and, when a young man, settled in Paris, ME, comming here when the country was new, finding his way by means of marked trees. With the energy and vigor of the true pioneer he felled the trees from a portion of the timbered land that he bought, up rooted the sod, and was thereafter successfully employed in tilling the soil, living here until his death...he and his wife were Baptists in religion, and in politics he was at first a Democrat, but later years he affiliated with the republicans..."
    
    Married Deborah drake on 18 March 1810 at Paris, Oxford, ME.
    
    Children:
    
    i.  Stillman Berry (1811- ), b. 15 July 1811 at Buckfield, Oxford, ME, m. Persis Cushman
    ii. Harvey Berry (1814-1880), b. 4 May 1814 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, m. Desire Perkins (1807- ), ca. 1838 at Paris, Oxford, ME, d. 14 January 1880
    iii. Polly Berry (1815- ), b. 9 December 1815 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, m. H. Hiram Heath
    iv. George Berry (1818- ), b. 25 May 1818 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, m. Melissa Buck (1816-1848), 28 July 1844, m.  Mary Hannah Marshall, aft. May 1846 at 2nd Wife, d. aft. 18 March 1904 at West Paris, Oxford, ME
    v. Sally Berry (1821- ), b. 19 June 1821 at West Paris, Oxford, ME
    vi. William Drake BERRY (1823-1893), b. 18 November 1823 at Paris, Oxford, ME,
        m. Joann Floyd LAWRENCE (1829-1907), 20 January   
        1850 at Paris, Oxford, ME, d. 23 August 1893 at West
       Sumner, Oxford, ME
      
       children:
      
        ia.  Sara Addie Berry (1851-1931), b. 11 November 1851
              at Paris, Oxford, ME, m. John Roscoe Remick, 22
              December 1885, d. 1931
       iia.  Eugene Mannaseh Berry  (1854-1885), b. 13 January
             1854 at West Sumner, Oxford, ME, m. Susan Almyra  
             Cartland (1858-1932), 2 May 1878 at
              Webster/Sabattus, Androscogin, ME, d. 28 March
              1885 at ME
       iiia.  Emma Rebecca Berry
       iva. Henry Havelock Berry
       via. Villa Lawrence Berry
       viia. Henry Havelock Berry
       viiia. George Ricker Berry
       ixa. Anna Myrtilla Berry
       xa. Edith Eliza Berry
    
    vii. Olive Berry (1826- ), b. 14 February 1826 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, d. at young
    viii. Elvecey Berry (1828- ), b. 16 February 1828 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, d. at young
    ix. Zeri Berry (1830- ), b. 23 May 1830 at West Paris, Oxford, ME, m. Elizabeth Ricker