Biography of T. D. Berry, Franklin Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Date: 16 Aug 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. Hon. T. D. Berry was born in Jackson County, Ala., at Belfast, September 24, 1827, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (McFerrin) Berry. The father was born and reared in Virginia, and was a soldier in one of the Indian wars. He was a planter, and died in Alabama. The maternal grandfather was James D. McFerrin. T. D. Berry grew to manhood in Alabama, and upon coming to Arkansas located in Madison County, where he served as sheriff four years. [p.1226] In 1861 he enlisted in the army under Col. David Walker, as a private, but was afterward elected lieutenant, and served until the close of the war in that capacity. He was in a number of skirmishes with the Indians, and participated in the fights at Oak Hill and Elk Horn. The company being disbanded in Texas at the close of the war, he located at Ozark, and engaged in planting. In 1866 he served one term in the Legislature, and ten years later served another. Since 1874 he has successfully practiced law in Ozark and the adjoining country. He is one of the most prominent citizens of the town, and for five consecutive years served as mayor of Ozark. In August, 1844, he married Jemima Boatright, daughter of William Boatright, and a native of Tennessee, who was reared in Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Berry have a family of four sons and four daughters: Nancy J. (wife of Henry Richardson), Mary A. (wife of F. M. Elsey), A. H. Berry, A. W. Berry, Dusey K. (wife of A. L. Eichenberger), W. T. Berry, Mattie H. and Frank M. Mr. Berry is a Royal Arch Mason, K. of H., and has represented all the orders in the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F.