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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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J. L. BERRYJ. L. BERRY, Sheriff of Sullivan County, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., October 30, 1837, and is the sixth in a family of ten children, born to William A. and Lucinda (Millison) Berry, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky. The father was a blacksmith by trade, but when about twenty-three years of age went to Kentucky and ever after followed farming. In December, 1840, he moved to Knox County, Ind., where he and wife lived until their deaths. Of the ten children, all are living in Knox and Sullivan Counties. Subject, when sixteen years old, began doing for himself. He occupied his time on the farm until 1868, when he embarked in the drug trade at Carlisle, and continued about ten years, when he accepted a situation as travelor for a wholesale implement house, but a year later returned to Sullivan County and soon afterward was elected County Sheriff, and two years later was re-elected to the same office, which he is now filling to his own credit and to the benefit of his constituents. Mr. Berry is a Democart, and has ascended to the Royal Arch degree in Masonry. For eight years he served as Notary Public. In 1858, he was married to Nancy J. Corbin, who died without issue March 19, 1865. On the 26th of January, 1872, he married Mattie A. Jenkins, by whom he is the father of five children: Winnie L., deceased, Lola, Earl, Maggie and Guy. Mrs. Berry is a member of the Methodist Church.HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 716 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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