Re: Leonard/Clara Berry of Michigan - breakthrough!
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Re: Leonard/Clara Berry of Michigan?
stan Hunter 5/30/09
Hi,
Thought I'd just post the breakthrough my mom discovered on this family. It looks like Leonard Berry was actually Mabel's brother - not her father. Leonard Berry was married to Clara Nolan a year or so before Mabel and Albert Bennett married, and they were the witnesses on her marriage certificate.
Mabel and Leonard's parents were Julius Berry and Alice Harriet Conn. I have not yet tracked down death dates for them. Julius was born to James L. Berry and Mary (Unknown) in Michigan, and Alice Harriet was born to Leonard Conn and Isabelle Norton in Ohio.
Mabel's name at birth (middle name?) was May, and her birthday was 19 May 1882 (which does work out correctly for her being 21 on her wedding day, as the marriage records show - I had 19 May 1883 previously). Her birth record can be found in the Michigan Births on pilot.familysearch.org.
Leonard Berry died in Jun 1909 - there is an obituary listed as available on the Saginaw Library site and I just ordered it, so I don't know what it says.
There was another sister, Edith Berry, who was born 22 Jan 1879 and died at four months, 22 May 1879.
Cheers!
Amanda