Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Berry was born on 25 January 1847, in Westville, Franklin, New York, United States, her father, Barnabus Gustavus Berry, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Basford, was 30. She married Nelson Byron Tucker on 4 January 1873. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Mooers, Mooers, Clinton, New York, United States in 1850 and Sparta, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1929, in Cataract, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cataract, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Lucy Berry in household of Gustavus Berry, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Berry, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Lucy Berry Tucker, "Find A Grave Index"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Monroe, Wisconsin, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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