Brief Life History of Mary Oliver
When Mary Oliver Berry was born on 27 December 1844, in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States, her father, William Devers Berry, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Rowe, was 32. She married William M West on 12 March 1865, in Lafayette, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Henderson, Rusk, Republic of Texas in 1880 and Ward One, Caddo, Louisiana, United States in 1910. She died on 27 April 1939, in Miller, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Macedonia Baptist Cemetery, Doddridge, Miller, Arkansas, United States.
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- Mary Holdeman in household of P J Holdeman, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary O Berry, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Mary O. Holdeman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1859
Historical Boundaries - 1859: Lafayette, Arkansas, United States 1875: Miller, Arkansas, United States
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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