THOMAS YOUNG BERRY, WAS THE SON OF WILEY P.
BERRY SR
January 27,2008
THOMAS YOUNG BERRY was born on May
11th 1903
and died on June 8th 1925.
Thomas Young Berry was the third child of Wiley P. and Ida ann Wilson Berry.
He was five years older than Malena and apparently would spend time with her on a social level. Malena was always very fond of him. Thomas was very popular with the young ladies and dated quite a few of them. One particular young lady managed to catch his fancy more than the others as it so often happens. Hattie Davis and
Thomas had desided to get married and had set the date for them to be married. They were planning to be married on June 30th 1925.. Thomas Young Berry contracted Typhoid Fever in the spring of 1925.The family thinks he drank water from a stump hole that was contaminated. Thomas Young Berry died 22 days before he was to be married on June 8th 1925. The picture on the bottom left is Thomas Y. Berry in school at Meridith School.
CHILDREN :
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Thomas had no children and was never married.