Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Livingston Co.

RUTLEDGE T. BERRY.  The Berrys were among the earliest settlers of 
Livingston County.  James Berry, subject's grandfather, was born in 
Virginia, which State he left as early as 1795, immigrating to Tennessee
and settling on the Holstein River.  Later he moved to Alabama, in which
State his death occurred about the year 1825.  John Berry, father of
Rutledge, was born in Tennessee prior to 1800.  He came to Kentucky in
his early manhood, settling in Livingston County, near the town of Old
Salem, where he became an extensvie farmer.  He kept a store at that place
also, and from 1829 to 1840 ran a ferry across the Ohio River to Golconda,
Ill., which is still known as Berry's Ferry.  In 1820 he was elected 
representative of Livingston County and served several sessions, besides
filling other positions of trust, the duties of which he discharged with
honor to himself and credit to the county.  Mr. Berry succeeded in
accumulating a fortune which, during his life, was second to none in the
county.  He was eminently successful in all his business enterprises and
died in the year 1840 full of years and honors.  The maiden name of
subject's mother was Maria Hodge.  She was the daughter of Henry G. Hodge,
a native of Virginia, and one of the earliest permanent residents of Salem
Precinct.  He settled three miles north of that village and died on his
home farm as early as 1820 or 1825, at a good old age.  Maria (Hodge)
Berry was born in Edgecomb County, N.C., and died in Livingston County,
Ky., in the year 1870.  Rutledge Berry is the eldest of a family of ten
children born to John and Maria Berry, his birth occurring March 24, 1816, 
in Livingston County.  His early history was marked by no extraordinary
event, but like the majority of the early residents of the new country,
his life has been an active one.  He attended the common schools for a 
number of years, in which he obtained the rudiments of a good education,
completing his studies later in Princeton College, Caldwell County.  His
first business on his own responsibility was as a merchant at Salem 
Village, a business which he followed successfully for a period of five
years, closing out about 1860.  After retiring from the goods business Mr.
Berry commenced farming where he now lives, in Carrsville Precinct.  He 
is one of the substantial yeomen of the land, and is now passing down the
shady side of life honored and respected by all who know him.  Mr. Berry
was married in March, 1840, to Miss Sarah Rondeau, daughter of William
and Anna Rondeau, of England.  The following are the children born to
this marriage: Ann M., wife of Jefferson Greer, C.R., Alice, Emily,
Serence, wife of Elder W.M. Weatherford, William (deceased), Pringle
(deceased), Julian, Mettie, Jefferson and Lewis.  Mr. Berry is a member
of the Masonic fraternity and has been a life-long Democrat.

Berry Hodge Rondeau Greer Weatherford 
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VA AL TN Golconda-Pope-IL Edgecomb-NC Caldwell-KY England

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