Martha Berry

For the Cherokee bead artist, see Martha Berry

Martha McChesney Berry was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Berry, a veteran of the MexicanAmerican War and American Civil War, and Frances Margaret Rhea, a daughter of an Alabama planter. Berry was born on October 7, 1865, in Berry Cove in Jackson County, Alabama, but her family relocated to Rome, Georgia, when she was an infant. Thomas Berry was a partner in Berrys and Company, a wholesale grocery and cotton brokerage business in Rome.

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