| Moses Berry (1820-1901) was born in Mason County, Kentucky. One of his parents was named Juda(h). I don't know whether Judah was male or female. Moses married Mariah Prior, (1838-1896), who also was born in Kentucky, in 1854, by a free black minister named Rev. Markham. Her parents were Seymour and Parmitia Pryor. In 1838, Joanna Berry of Mason Co., KY, emancipated Seymour Pryor. He was age 41. Moses and Mariah had three children, Alexander, Arthur (my great-grandfather) and Belle. Moses was a slave of Robert H. Baldwin, and was listed along with his son Alexander among Baldwin's inventory of property after he died. Moses and Alexander were sold to Milton Daugherty, who presumably bought him from Baldwin's estate -- Daugherty's father-in-law, Jacob Drake, did the inventory of the estate, which was filed in Mason County Court April 8, 1863. Moses enlisted as a private in the Union Army (U.S. Colored Troops) in Maysville, Ky., on April 30, 1865, and was honorably discharged on Nov. 18, 1865. He was sent to Camp Nelson, near Louisville. If you have documented information connecting Moses and his family to the BERRY, PRIOR, DAUGHERTY, and BALDWIN surnames in Mason County, (white or African-American), please let me know. I also have research info to share. I am also researching: IN CASWELL & ALAMANCE COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA: NATHANIEL LONG and his wife LUCRETIA (maiden name unknown) of Caswell and Alamance counties, North Carolina. They migrated to Springfield, OH after 1900. Nathaniel and Lucretia's son ALEXANDER married MINNIE WALKER, and their son DAVID married Minnie's sister BERTHA WALKER. Minnie's mother SARAH and her husband ISSAC WALKER had moved to Springfield after 1900, also from Alamance Co., NC. Issac was the stepfather of Minnie and her siblings. Her mother Sarah had married GEORGE WALKER JR. when he was 27 and she was 15. Alexander's younger sister LUGENIA married Sarah's nephew LUCIAN ENOCH, son of Sarah's sister MARGARET. The couple moved to OH in 1900. By 1910, Sarah's parents, BEDFORD and TENER ENOCH, moved to OH too. I want to find out who Tener's family was. IN EAST FELICIANA & EAST BATON ROUGE PARISHES, LOUISIANA: Charles Brown and his wife Amanda Howard of East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge parishes, Louisiana. I've traced Charles to the 1870 Census in East Feliciana Parish. He was lynched in Wilkinson County, MS, in 1879. I want to find out who killed him. Amanda's mother Polly was taken from Maryland to Louisiana. I want to know who Amanda's father is and to find out the names of her siblings; the Census says Polly had 11 children. Charles' family may have come from VA to LA. IN MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, BROWN COUNTY, OHIO and UNKNOWN COUNTIES in TENNESSEE: Moses' son Arthur married Adelia Bowman, daughter of Elizabeth Cowen and Thomas Bowman. Elizabeth died in childbirth in 1870. Adelia (Ada) was raised by her mother's sister ELIZA EMMONS. I'm not sure whether Ada was the daughter of one of the two Thomas Bowmans living in Brown County when she was born -- one was a married minister and the other was a farm hand. Several of Ada's aunts and uncle are missing from the U.S. Census after 1870 -- JULIA, FRANKLIN, AMANDA and MARY. Ada's maternal grandfather WILSON COWEN was married to ELIZA; they migrated from TN around 1842-43 to OH. Eliza died around 1853-55. Wilson got remarried, to MILHALY HIGHWARDEN of Brown Co., and they were probably the parents of two children who died before age 10. Ada's uncle JAMES COWEN married an Irish woman, ELLEN, and they had two children, Katie and Joseph. They lived in Cincinnati -- and Ada's aunt BELLE HUGHES, a nurse and the widow of WILLIAM HUGHES, is living with them in 1880. James was a bartender. Thanks for any information you have to share. |
Moses Berry: A Kentucky Soldier's Journey to Freedom
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