Husband John M. Berry 1 2
Born: 14 Jan 1839 - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
Christened:
Died: Aft 1893
Buried:
Father: John Berry (1805-1881) 2 4
Mother: Jane Eagleton ( -1844) 2 4
Marriage: 22 Dec 1870 5
• Additional Image: John M. Berry.
Wife Mary Jane Weir 5 6
Born: 2 May 1840 5
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Samuel L. Weir (1809-1875) 5
Mother: Jane McCorkle (1811-1849) 5
Children
1 M Samuel C. Berry 4 6
Born:
Christened:
Died: when one year old
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 U [Infant] Berry 6
Born:
Christened:
Died: in infancy
Buried:
3 U [Infant] Berry 6
Born:
Christened:
Died: in infancy
Buried:
4 U [Infant] Berry 6
Born:
Christened:
Died: in infancy
Buried:
5 F Minnie Jane Berry 5 6
Born: 13 Jun 1875 5
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 M John Lawrence Weir Berry 5 6
Born: 7 Apr 1878 5
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 M William Eagleton Berry 5 6
Born: 15 Aug 1881 5
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Elsie M. Weir ( - ) 6
General Notes: Husband - John M. Berry
He passed his youth in the township of his birth, at-tending the common schools of the district, and learning practical lessons in agriculture on the home farm. In 1853 he came to North Strabane township with his father where he has since resided, with the exception of the time he was serving his country in the Civil war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fortieth P. V. I., and followed the fortunes of his regiment until the battle of Spottsylvania, where he was wounded in the left shoulder. They were fighting in what was called the "Bloody Angle," and our subject was one of the first, if not the first, to get inside the rebel redoubt; he was on the right of the foremost company which led that famous charge. The company numbered twenty-one men, and nearly half of them were killed or wounded. Mr. Berry, after spending, in all, six months in hospital, recovered from his wound and proceeded to Washington, D. C., where he re-mained on duty till the close of the war, being mustered out June 28, 1865. He then returned home and settled down to the vocation of peace on his farm in North Strabane township, where he carried on general agriculture and was extensively engaged in stock raising, but he was best known to the public as a successful breeder and exhibitor of "Black-Top Merino Sheep," for which he had a large sale all over the United States.
He and his wife were prominent members of the U. P. Church at Pigeon Creek, in which he was an elder. In politics he was a Republican, and served his township in various official capacities. In 1885 he was elected justice of the peace, and again elected in 1890.
He followed farming, now owning 187 acres of land, including the original homestead. He took an active part in the sheep industry and for ten years or more was president of the "Black Top Spanish Merino Breeders' Publishing Association," of Washington County, of which he was an active member from its organization in 1883, and president of the Pennsylvania Wool Growers' Association. He was a member of the Washington County Agricultural Association and the Canonsburg Association during their entire existence, and served as crop reporter for the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C.
Mr. Berry was a Republican in politics and served his township on the board of assessors, was a member of the Republican County Committee nine years, and was justice of the peace eighteen years, resigning that position when elected to the Legislature from Washington County in 1902. He was re-elected in 1904, when he received the largest vote and largest majority any candidate for that office ever received in the county. He served in the sessions of 1903 and 1905 and in the special session of 1908. He was on the committee on appropriations, agriculture, geological survey and congressional apportionment.