Mercer B. Berry

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1820-07-01

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1904-03-25

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"Mercer B. Berry" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019759, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Jessamine County, Kentucky, millwright and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Mildred A. Robinson Berry on May 15, 1845. Father to Landin Berry, Thomas M. Berry, Callie Berry, and Francis Berry. Millwright in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1860. Household owned three additional enslaved persons in Jessamine in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 15B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 288.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 21.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 295A.
'Mercer B. Berry," Cass County Democrat (Harrisonville, Missouri), April 7, 1904, p. 7.
"Mercer B. Berry (1820-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98233274, accessed November 8, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98233274.

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