William Wallace Berry Jr.

b. 6 March 1873
  • William Wallace Berry Jr. was born on 6 March 1873 in Virginia. They all were living in the same house in 1935.
  • William Wallace Berry and Mary Annis Davis appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia. Other members of the household included William Wallace Berry Jr., Thomas Davis Berry, James Micajah Berry, Samuel A. Berry and Ellen M. Berry. Also in the household was one domestic servant.
  • He married Gladys Mary Kelsey, daughter of Oswald Walter Kelsey and Rosalie Blanche Bell, on 14 June 1897 in Bedford, Virginia.
  • William Wallace Berry Jr. registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Bedford, Virginia, while living with his wife Gladys on Longwood Avenue in Bedford, and employed there as a tobacco manufacturer.
  • William Wallace Berry Jr. and Gladys Mary Kelsey appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Bedford, Virginia, at Longwood Avenue. Other members of the household included John Clarke Berry and Gladys M. Berry. Also in the household was one female domestic servant.
  • He was employed as a superintendent by a tobacco factory, according to the 1920 census.
  • William Wallace Berry Jr. and Gladys Mary Kelsey appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Bedford, Virginia, at 727 Longwood Avenue. Other members of the household included Gladys M. Berry.
  • He was self-employed as a merchandise broker, according to the 1940 census.
  • The following appeared on 20 June 1955 in The Progress-Index: Mrs. Gladys Mary Kelsey Berry, wife of the late William Wallace Berry, Sr. of Bedford, died yesterday afternoon at 6:10 o'clock in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Howell F. Cooper, 114 S. Market St., after a brief illness.
         Mrs. Berry was a native and lifelong resident of Bedford, and a daughter of the late Oswald Walter and Roalie Blanche Bell Berry. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Howell F. Cooper of this city, one son, William Wallace Berry of Bedford, one foster son, John Clarke Berry of New Orleans La., two grandsons, Randall Taylor Elliott of Cleveland O., and William Wallace Berry Jr. of Bedford, two grand daughters, Elizabeth Langhorne Berry and Ann Frewen Berry, both of Bedford.
         Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in St. Johns Episcopal Church, Bedford. The Rev. William C. Marshall, a former rector of St. Johns Episcopal Church and the Rev. Mr. Beale, rector will officiate. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Bedford.
  • Last Edited: 26 Sep 2012

Family: Gladys Mary Kelsey b. circa 1877, d. 19 June 1955