Mary Oliver Berry

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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Family Time Line

Thomas Jefferson Holdeman
1851–1924
Mary Oliver Berry
1844–1939
Marriage: 12 December 1877
Ada Ann Holdeman
1878–1963
Erasmus Oliver Holdeman
1880–1935
Hardy Wesley Holdeman
1881–1946
Hardy Holdeman
1882–
Tommy Holdeman
1884–1884

Sources (7)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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