Creek Nation (OK) Letter from George Washington Berryhill to Monroe Jasper
Berryhill, 1897

Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

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Following is a letter to Monroe Jasper Berryhill from 
George Washington Berryhill, son of Samuel, son of John and Elizabeth 
(Derrisaw) Berryhill.


							Europa, Miss.
							Feb. 11th 1897

Mr M. J. Berryhill
	Dear Cousin
I rec. your very welcome letter some few days ago, and was real glad to hear 
from you. my health is not good this Winter  We have had some very hard weather 
here. but snow only once and then not very heavy. now in regard to the matter 
that you wrote about  I have searched all my brothers old papers and can find 
no history of the family with this exception. Gr. father and his bro. Wm. 
served in the revolutionary war. he was born in the Muskogee Nation in
year 1762 or 3 and died in the Terr. near where Muskogee now is, in 1831,
and his wife died in 1833. I can give you the history of the Berryhill
family as I understand it.  three bros. came over to America from Ireland
years before the breaking out of the war with the mother country and
settled in the Territory of Georgia. they perhaps came with the first
emigrants to that colony. at any rate two of them married Indian women of
the Muskogee tribe of Indians. and grandfather John sprang from one of the
other of them. and that acts for there being two separate families being
akin to the Indians. If you will go and see Pink Hawkins, (if alive) he is
a veary old man, and lives in Deep Fork 18 miles South of Okmulgee he told
me at Council that he knew all my people in the Old country  you could get
cos Nathan Berryhill to go with you. he knows him. he may be dead now it has 
been two years since I saw him. give my love to Jacob and family when you see 
them. Write often.

							Yours truly
							G. W. Berryhill

The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants

This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before
her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her
research online.

David Morgan  dmorgan@efn.org