Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Berry was born on 14 September 1849, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Wesley Berry Jr, was 27 and her mother, Harriet Hardin, was 31. She married Winfield Scott Perkins on 13 February 1873, in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 6, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 21 December 1913, in Hustonville, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kentucky Township, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States.
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- Sarah R Berry in household of Hariett Berry, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah R Berry, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Sarah Ruth Berry Perkins, "Find A Grave Index"
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1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara ‘descendant of Béara’, a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie .
English: habitational name from any of several places called in Devon named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house, stronghold’, such as Berry Pomeroy and Berrynarbor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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