Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1850 x


!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 186
F. A. BERRY, 50 SC
Drucilla, 40
F. A. Jr 5
Dennis BERRY, 79
Elizabeth, 70;

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 228
Frank BERRY, 60
Druziler, 48 wf
F. A. 15, nephew
Ida WILKS, 6 servant
Sophia BERRY, B, 17 servant;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 148-157
...
Dennis Berry, the oldest son of old Henry, raised only one son, Frank A. Berry, who died childless, a few years ago. Dennis Berry lived to an advanced age, over eighty ; he, too, was a Justice of the Peace in his day - but few in his locality competent for such position, and still fewer in his father's day. ;


!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 199-206
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Of the daughters of old Isham Watson, Nellie, the oldest, married Frank A. Berry, in 1839; she died, together with her infant, in 1840; both were buried together in the same grave. Frank A. Berry lived a widower for perhaps thirty years or more, when he married Verzilla Watson, sister of Nellie, then an old maid; she died childless, a few years ago; her husband preceded her to the grave a year or two. ;

!FAMILY BIBLE:The Bible was presented to Ellen E. Watson Bass Oct 7, 1881 by William Watson.
Addison J. Bass and Ellen E. Watson married Jan 28, 1879
Addison b Marion Co, 10-11-1848 died 5-29-1901.
Ellen E. born Marion Co, 12-24-1852 died 5-29-1901.
Their children-
Joe Manly Bass b 3-11-1880 md 11-23-1910 died 6-28-1952.
Cherry A. Bass, b-6-16-1882 died 1-3-1939
Maggie E. Bass b-2-3-1884 md 12-29-1912
Rosa David Bass b-2-5-1886 died 6-18-1888-
Robert W. Bass b- 5-10-1889 md 7-14-1918 died 11-17-1952-
Norma Bernice Bass b 11-20-1893-
Eunice E. Bass b 8-23-1898 md 2-5-19223
Magnolia W. Easterling, daughter of Samuel and Frances Watson born 8-27-1864 md 1-1-1890
Isham Watson's family and birthdates:
David Dec 3, 1811, d. Nov 16, 1823,
Matthew, Sept 12, 1813,
James, Sept 3, 1815,
Nancy, July 20, 1827,
Penelope, July 14, 1819,
Isham H. May 13, 1821,
Samuel, Oct 6, 1825,
Mary, dec 7, 1827,
William Oct 7, 1829,
Drusilla, Nov 16, 1830,
Fama, Mar 9, 1832,
Sarah, Aug 9, 1833,
Jane, Feb 26, 1835"

!CENSUS:1820 * Marion Dist, SC pg 67 w/Isham WATSON age 0-9 (1810/20);

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 199-206
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Old man Isham Watson was the founder, it may be said, of the family on Catfish, in name and fortune. Barny Watson, his father, was married twice ; whether he had a child or children other than Isham, by his first wife, is not known. Isham Watson married and settled on Catfish, near where Antioch Church now stands, in the first part of the nineteenth century, a poor man; his wife was Miss Mary Hays, a sister of the late John C. Hays ; the results of the marriage were five sons, Matthew, James, Isham H., Samuel and William; and seven daughters, Nellie, Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Verzella, Fama and Jane ; all raised to be grown and all married, and all now dead, except the daughters, Mary and Jane.
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Of the daughters of old Isham Watson, Nellie, the oldest, married Frank A. Berry, in 1839; she died, together with her infant, in 1840; both were buried together in the same grave. Frank A. Berry lived a widower for perhaps thirty years or more, when he married Verzilla Watson, sister of Nellie, then an old maid; she died childless, a few years ago; her husband preceded her to the grave a year or two. ;