Brief Life History of Flora A.
When Flora A. Berry was born on 5 September 1868, in Marion, South Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Andrew Berry, was 28 and her mother, Susan Emeline Platt, was 29. She married John Monroe Wright about 1880, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Banner Township, Johnston, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Rowland, Robeson, North Carolina, United States in 1944. She died on 9 April 1944, in Dillon, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Latta, Dillon, South Carolina, United States.
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- Floria Wright in household of Rufus Atkinson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Flora A. Berry - Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 5 September 1868; Marion, South Carolina, United States
- Flora A. Wright, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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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.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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