MEMBER OF THE ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CATE BERRY FAMILY
SEPTEMBER, 19 2007
HENRY BERRY was born in 1776, the year our Nation signed the Declaration of Independence. Henry was the youngest child in the family and became a very important member of the Robert Berry family after his father died. Henry inherited the Fiddleton Plantation Home and about 600 acres of farm and woodland. While four of the slaves were willed to Thomas, David, Robert Jr. and Joshua, eight slaves were still owned by Henry, Isaac, Elizabeth, and their Mother. They needed this many slaves to manage all of the plantation work. There always seemed to be a lot of people living at the Plantation Home when each new Census was taken. The House was a very large one for the period. It is my belief that Elizabeth Cate Berry lived until 1818 or 1819. There are two reasons I believe this. The first reason is that there was no female listed in Henry Berry's 1820 Census who was old enough to be Elizabeth and the second reason is that David J. Berry, her son, did not leave Orange County until about 1828. My feeling is that David and his family had no reason to stay in Orange County after that. Henry owned all of the property and there was land to be had in Georgia. In 1830 Henry sold a hundred and 3/10 acres of land to William and Person Berry. Deed Book 226 Page 24 At the time of this writing I believe that William may have been Thomas Person Berry's older brother who was born in 1799 and was listed in the 1800 Census,(see Census on the William Berry page). In 1838 Henry bought about seven acres of land from Joseph Armstrong. Deed Book 30 Page 33 . Henry Berry and Hannah Berry were living together in the 1850 census. Hannah was William Berry's wife but I do not think Henry and Hannah ever married. If you check his will on this page you will see that he leaves some property to Hannah but does not mention her as his wife.
Henry Berry died about 1855 and Hannah only lived about three more
years.
Both Henry and Hannah are buried in the Robert Berry Fiddleton grave
plot. The location of the grave site is Latitude 35 degrees 13' 42"
Longitude 79 degrees 01' 07
This site is about three hundred yards due north of the Fiddleton
Plantation Home. This Grave Site was discovered by four of the
descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Cate Berry on May 19, 2006. (Dane Berry, Bernard Berry, Ben Henderson and Aaron Henderson.)
On January 14th 2009 I recieved an email that stated who Susan A. Crabtree is. Susan is buried in the Fiddleton Cemetery. Susan is the daughter of Thomas and Mary King who inherited the homeplace when Henry died. SEE a copy of Henry's WILL..... Mary Berry King's headstone is above
Susan's Mother was Mary (Poly) Berry King. This information clears up the relationship of Henry Berry and the Kings. SEE Susans death Cirtificate. finding this information leaves us with another uanswered question. Who is Mary Berry's Parents? You may VIEW Mary King age 41 and Susan King age 4 in this 1850 Census.
http://www.cemeterycensus.com/nc/orng/cem233.htm
Mary Berry who later married Thomas King Sr. would have been 1 year old in the 1810 Orange County N.C. Census. Only Joshua Berry, Hannah Berry, and David J. Berry liated females in that age bracket in 1810. We think the female listed in Hannah Berry's census was Eleanor Berry, Thomas and Sarah Cate Berry's daughter.
