Solano County Biographies

GEORGE M. BERRY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born in Marion county, Tennessee, May 6, 1837. When about two years old, he, 
with his parents, moved to Christian county, Ills., where he was engaged as a 
farmer until 1849, when they changed their place of residence to Sangamon 
county, in that State.  In the spring of 1863, Mr. Berry left home for 
California, crossing the plains with mule teams, arriving in Suisun valley on 
July 26, 1863.  Here he worked for other parties for eighteen months, and then 
rented the land known as the Barbour tract, for four years; then bought a 
portion of the Keeney tract, four miles west of Suisun, which he sold in 1877.  
He married Nancy Barbour, September 5, 1869.  She is a daughter of Nathan 
Barbour, a pioneer settler in this county.  George M. is their only child.  Mrs. 
Berry was born in Suisun valley, September 24, 1851.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 430