Merry Bee Genealogy - Berry
Merry Bee Genealogy - Berry
A marriage certificate dated Feb 7 1889 in Shawneetown, IL gives the marriage of Mary Ellen Carsnor (spelled Carsner) and James Jasper Berry. James is Mary Ellen Carsner's 2nd husband, and she appears on the marriage certificate as Mary E. Davis. On the back it has a place for maiden name if widowed and there it says Mary Carsner.
Evidently they lived in Gallatin County for a while although the only "proof" is in the WorldConnect family tree records that show the third child born in Gallatin County (example: J Young in Young Family Etc.)
James & Mary state in the 1900 US Census that they have been married 12 years. Their first child, Lucy May, is born 13 November 1888, so the marriage certificate may have an error or they may have fudged a year in the telling.
Assumiing Frank is born in Gallatin County, then the family moved back to Saline County between 1892 and 1896. Also in that 1900 US Census, Mary reports having had 7 children with 6 living, yet in the 1910 US Census the numbers are 10 children all living. After Lucy, the children in 1900 are: Margret Modesta (1889), Frank (1892), Lily Bell (1894), Dora Nellie (1896), and Samuel Elmer (1898). These six were all born in Illinois as were the next two children: Grace Lee (1902) and Anne Marie (1903).
They moved from Illinois to Missouri between 1903 and 1907. Eula Myrtle was born in Missouri in 1907. The final child, Mary Isabell, was born 26 June 1909 and died 26 July 1910.
In both the 1910 and 1920 census, Mary is living on a rented farm in Stoddard County Missouri with her husband James.
Mary Ellen died 03 December 1920. Family reports give the place of death as Fisk, Missouri. Since James and Mary were living in Stoddard County, she may have died at the home of a relative or at a hospital, or it may be a confusion with the funeral and burial at Fisk. Mary Ellen Berry is buried at the Hobbs Cemetery, Fisk, Butler County, Missouri.
Mary Ellen Carsnor was born 14 February 1868 in Shawneetown, Gallatin County Illinois. Mary Ellen was a two-year-old in the household of her father, listed as William Carner, in the 1870 US Census for Shawneetown, and at age 11 in the 1880 US Census under the name of William Casner.