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| Research Note | Jefferson Davis Berryhill was the son of Michael Weeks Berryhill and K. C. Broyles. Jeff and Clara
Berryhill lived almost all their lives in Barry Co., but Jeff is buried in Parlier, California. Clara was the daughter of Rev. Golman Buford and Mary Minerva (Burris) Hancock. Rev. G. B. Hancock was a Church of Christ minister who had come to
Missouri from Wayne Co., KY, where he first settled in Macon County, MO.
Jefferson was called Jeff and owned a small nursery near Washburn where he grew trees, strawberry plants and many other types of flowering plants. It was called Berryhill Nursery. Jeff often experimented with plants and grafted different types of fruit trees sometimes the family remembered that he produced different types of strange looking fruit. He liked producing fruit different from anything that he'd grown before so said his daughter, Ruth. Jeff loved to play different musical instruments and taught each of his children to play some sort of instrument. When the telephone first came out, the whole Berryhill family would get near the phone and play music for the neighbors. It was a round robin sort of thing. The neighbor listening might have something he would play too. It was always a lot of fun. Jeff's offspring often related many stories like this to their descendants. He was a cleaver person often inventing different gadgets. Once he invented a lantern that would swing as a train rounded corners. He never got the patent on it, but had fun experimenting with it. In the later part of the 1800's he purchased an original copy of Goodspeed's History of Barry Co., MO, which is now in the possession of Donna Cooper. What a wonderful book to have bought. I don't think that there were very many of them sold in Barry Co., MO. |
| Date Taken | First one taken about 1907 and the second one about 1912 or 1913. Ruth my grandmother was born in 1902 and she is about 5 or 6 years old there. The second one she looks like she might be 12 or 13 years old. |
| Resource | Family Photos |
| Submitted by | Donna Cooper |
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