Looking for Iowa Berry's
Having done a look at our local cemetery I am wondering if anyone has found a connection with Berry's that came to Minona Iowa or MacGragor or Mason City Iowa. My great-grandfather and his brother, Michael and Bernard Berry and my grand-father Leo Berry are buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in Mason City Iowa. There are several other Berry's their also. My grandpa Leo said his grandparents came from Ireland to Minona on the Mississippi River during 1840-1860. My grandmother smoked a pipe and chewed tobacco. He claimed that we were related to the Clark and Kelly families. The women in this family seem to have disappeared and left sons to be raised by their fathers. Leo Berry was married to Easter Veech in 1916 and my father Walter was born in 1917. Easter died a few days later. I don't hae any first cousins and would like to know if there are any other relatives out there.