When Phoebe Berry was born in 1775, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, David Berry, was 20 and her mother, Hannah Pickering, was 25. She married William McNeece in 1798, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States in 1850. She died on 19 August 1859, at the age of 84.
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Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
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.
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