George W. Berry

Death Date

1864-06-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Adelaide Jamison Berry on January 4, 1849. Father of Thomas Berry, Anastatia Berry, and Edward A. Berry. Commissioner of the Licking and Lexington Railroad in 1846. Postmaster of Berry's Station, Kentucky from 1856 to 1858. Owned seven enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1860. Commissioner of the Colemansville and Williamson Turnpike Road in 1860. Captain and provost marshal of the 6th Military District of Kentucky in 1863. Captain and colonel of the Harrison County Home Guards in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 50.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, p. 10.
William A. Penn, Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016).
Jeanne Greiser, "Battle of Falmouth" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 318.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1846), 365-369.
"An Act to Incorporate the Colemansville and Williamstown Turnpike Road," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 320-322.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, accessed on ancestry.com (Washington, D.C.: National Archives) (accessed on May 17, 2017).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Harrison County Marriages, Film #000216896.

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