Re: Thomas Barry from Pennsylvania
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Re: Thomas Barry from Pennsylvania
Janis Tremain 11/21/12
I have been trying to verify if Mildred Berry the wife of Thomas Berry (census spelling) maiden name was Moffett.Your posting helped clarify this for me.
My gggrandmother Elizabeth Westbrook White was the daughter of Dorcas Moffett.Dorcas married William Westbrook in Frederick County, Virginia in 1811.Bond was posted by her father John Moffett.
Elizabeth White's husband Issac died in Noble Co., Ohio, after 1860, but prior to 1870.In the 1870 Census of Centre Twp., Noble Co., Ohio, three of Elizabeth's children were living in the household of John and Catherine Berry.
1870 Census, Centre Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
John Berry age 42
Catherine Berry age 22
Mildred B Age 1
Alfred White age 12
Margaret White age 10
Wm. White age 10
I wondered if they were related.I received an email sometime ago of a letter sent cira 1865?, from Elizabeth Westbrook White to her sister Margaret Westbrook Glidden with the following remarks:
"So now I will tell you some sad news.Aunt Milly Berry is dead.She was struck with the paulsey all at once.She was as well as far????? and Mary Jane is a living there and William Jackson too, and Mary Jane went out of her house into the other and when she come back just as quick as she could and she had sunk back in her chair and was a dying when she came in and she died on the 19th day of January and Elizabeth Berry and Uncle Thomas is dead too.There waqs 18 months and 10 days between the 3 deaths so that leaves nobody but John and he takes it awful hard about them."
1860 Federal Census, Noble Co., Ohio.Thomas Berry, Age 63.Birth year about 1797, Post Office Sarahsville
1860 Federal Census, Noble Co., Ohio
Thomas Berry Age 63
Mildred Berry Age 62
John Berry Age 32
Mary E Berry Age 27
Benjamin Moffit Age 15
This 1860 census made me wonder if Mildred Berry's maiden name might have been Moffett.Since Elizabeth Westbrook White referred to her as Aunt Milly.
I am trying to do research on John Moffett the father of Dorcas Moffett Westbrook.Do you have any information on this Moffett family?