Joel Halbert Berry, read the Circular Letter on the question of "The Sabbath and Its Observance" and heard Reverend Alexander Acker, a grandson of the Halberts, preach the annual sermon. So strong was the conviction of Joel Halbert Berry on the question of the observance of the Sabbath that three years later, when he left South Carolina and moved to Mississippi, he would not travel on Sunday. He and his family stopped on Saturday night for a religious observance of the Sabbath and then resumed their travel on Monday morning.
Joel Halbert Berry, still another son of William Berry, settled in the Pleasant Ridge Community which was south of Blue Mountain in what is now Union County. He was a very successful farmer and businessman. He and his wife had a family of six children: Martha Louise, Julius Simpson, William Edwin, James Addison, Cornelia Elizabeth, and Juliette Melinda. They and the Joel Bruton Gambrells were neighbors. Jane Gambrell, the wife of Joel Bruton Gambrell, and Joel Halbert Berry were first cousins since both were grandchildren of Hudson Berry.
Likewise, about the same time that the Berrys and the Gambrells settled in this section, James W. Leave11 and his wife, Emily, and their family moved from Anderson County, South Carolina, to Mississippi, and settled in the Cherry Creek community. Four of the great-granddaughters of Hudson Berry married four of the sons of James W. and Emily Leave11. Sallie Gambrell, the youngest sister of James Bruton Gambrell, married Dr. B. F. Leaven. Corra Alice Berry, the oldest daughter of Nathan Manley Berry, married George W. Leave11. Her younger sister, Lizzie Berry, married Fountaine S. Leave11. Mettle Lou Berry, a daughter of Joel Halbert Berry, married Dr. R. M. Leave11. Throughout all the subsequent years, the Berrys, the Gambrel's, and the Leavells, who were closely related by blood and marriage, were intimately associated in the business, the educational, and the religious life of Mississippi and Texas.
Joel Halbert Berry, read the Circular Letter on the question of "The Sabbath and Its Observance" and heard Reverend Alexander Acker, a grandson of the Halberts, preach the annual sermon. So strong was the conviction of Joel Halbert Berry on the question of the observance of the Sabbath that three years later, when he left South Carolina and moved to Mississippi, he would not travel on Sunday. He and his family stopped on Saturday night for a religious observance of the Sabbath and then resumed their travel on Monday morning.
Joel Halbert Berry, still another son of William Berry, settled in the Pleasant Ridge Community which was south of Blue Mountain in what is now Union County. He was a very successful farmer and businessman. He and his wife had a family of six children: Martha Louise, Julius Simpson, William Edwin, James Addison, Cornelia Elizabeth, and Juliette Melinda. They and the Joel Bruton Gambrells were neighbors. Jane Gambrell, the wife of Joel Bruton Gambrell, and Joel Halbert Berry were first cousins since both were grandchildren of Hudson Berry.
Buried Marion County, Ohio Cemetery.
Buried Marion County, Ohio Cemetery.
Buried Marion County, Ohio Cemetery.
Buried Marion County, Ohio Cemetery.
(4051.) HEPSA COX (2115.) (787.) (201.) (31.) (3.) (1.):
d. 1889; M. ELMER JORDAN.