John Williams BERRY

                   Aka: John Mateson BERRY
Aka: Mat COOK
Pio & Prom Men of Utah p.752
LDS Benson Ward, Logan rec.
                  

                   Diary of James Thomas BERRY
                  

                   SS:St. George Temple Book A p. 131  Film170579
                  

                   1900 Soundex, Logan residing with Harriet and four children
Six Patriarchal Blessings recorded:  Salt Lake City 7 Oct 1897, Beaver, Utah 5
Jan 1899, Payson, Utah 23 Jan 1912, Provo, Utah 10 Feb 1912, Provo, Utah 30 Jan
1913, Hurrican, Utah 18 Dec 1943.
Robert Albert Berry was sealed to Sarah Adline Sevey b. 30 Mar 1872 Kanarrah, Iron, Utah.  She d. 1 Dec 1889.  Endowed 26 Oct 1907 by Sarah A. P. Smith.  Sealed by Adolph Madsen.  Witnesses Melvin M. Miller and Albert W. Davis  Film 1239578.  p. 61 sealings for the dead, 7 Apri1 1908 SLAKE.
Obit: Deseret News 26 Mar 1962. B13 (also SL Trib 26 Mar 1962 p. 33)   Robert A. Berry died of natural causes Sunday 2:30 am. at the home of a daughter at 1335 N Jordan Ave.  Born May 16, 1862 Kanarraville, Iron County to John Williams and Jane Elizabeth Thomas Berry.  Married Harriet Aldred 1891.  She died 1908.  Married Tillie Gardner who later died.  Married Isabelle Harris who died in 1938.  Former mail carrier.  Member LDS Church.  Served LDS mission to South Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico.  Came to Provo in 1910.  Servivors son, daughter, Ray E., Springville; Mrs. A. A. Hackla, Mrs. Stella Fielbaum, both Los Angeles; Mrs. Alberta Ahistedt, Chicago.  Mrs. Metella Payne, Provo, Mrs. Josephine Harris, Salt Lake City.  16 grandchildren.  28 great grandchildren.
Obit:  Additional material in Provo Herald  26 March 1962 p. 4.  B. at Kanarraville, Iron Co. etc.  He received his education in Southern Utah schools, including Richfield.  He lived under the United Order where he weeded gardens and thinned carrots at Harmony and Kanarraville and herded horses and cattle in Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks and on the Escalante Desert.  He learned the treachery of the Colorado River as he carried the U.S. Mail between some of the Southern Utah Settlements.
       He filled a mission in South Carolina at a time when Mormon missionaries were being robbed.  He also filled missions in Arizona and New Mexico.  He has travelled from Old Mexico to Canada and came to Provo in 1910
   where he was engaged in the Dairy business.  He md. Harriet Aldred in 1891 in the St. George Temple.  She died in 1908.  He was married to Tillie Gardner, after her death he married Isabelle Harris.  She died in 1938.  He lived in Logan a number of years.
                  

                   1900 Soundex, Kanarra Pct., Iron Co.  Residing with Symantha and two children
SS: Edith Lyle Miller, Salt Lake Temple sealings of the living 8 April 1920.
(License issued by Clerk of Salt Lake Co. 6 April 1920.) GS 186,209, p 488.
                  

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