William Franklin Berry

Birth Date

1828-05-24

Death Date

1893-02-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Union County, Kentucky, druggist, tobacco merchant, and police judge. Union County, Kentucky, native. Son of Martin M. Berry and Rachel F. Anderson Berry. Married to Ann Lavenia Berry Berry in Union County, Kentucky, on March 24, 1857. Father of William Allen Berry, Joseph G. Berry, and Henry Earle Berry. Resident in Morganfield from 1844 to 1859. Clerk and salesman employed by George F. Catlett in Morganfield from 1844 to 1848. Druggist in Union County in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Union County in 1850. Justice of the peace in Union County in 1852. Tobacco merchant in Uniontown in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Police judge in Uniontown in 1861. Licensed to practice as an attorney in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 513A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 349.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Uniontown, p. 535.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Uniontown, p. 418A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Uniontown, p. 404A-B.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994056, Union County Marriages, p. 169.
History of Union County, Kentucky. (Evansville: Courier Company Printers, Binders, and Engravers, 1886), 523-525.
"William Franklin Berry (1828-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #106550006, accessed September 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106550006.

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