Carolina (Shinn) Berry (1846 - 1907)

Born 2 Feb 1846 in Shinnston, Harrison, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died 24 Feb 1907 at age 61 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

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Biography

Carolina was born in 1846. She was the daughter of Moses Shinn and Mary Shinn.^[1][2] She married Alvin Bernethy in 1862.^[3] She divorced Alvin and married Louis B. Berry in 1889. She passed away in 1907.^[4]

Josiah Shinn's biography (1903)of Carolina Shinn:^[5]
"Carolina Shinn, born, 2/2/1846, in Harrison County, Virginia; married, 1862, Alvin Bernethy, in Hancock County, Illinois. Took a wedding trip in a wagon drawn by oxen to The Dalles, Ore.; remained there three years and returned to Illinois by way of Panama. Wealth may enable its possessors to cross the ocean and see the glories of the Old World; the pioneers of the West, without great wealth, saw the equally great glories of the New World, with a trip across the isthmus and on two oceans. After several years of farm life removed to Cass County, Missouri, and settled on a farm given by the father of Mr. Bernethy. Speculation soon caused this farm to pass into other hands, when the couple removed to Iowa. There the wife procured a divorce, the court giving her the custody of her two children. She then returned to her childhood home in Illinois and became a dressmaker; remarried, 1889, L. B. Berry, son of Captain Thomas Berry, of the War of 1812. His mother was a niece of a long line of Cherokee chiefs. This marriage was a happy one, and the couple now reside at Seattle, Wash., where the husband holds a responsible position in a leading dry goods house of that place. Mrs. Berry is a dignified Christian woman, devoted to her family, and a believer of the doctrines of the Universalist Church. By her first marriage there were four children, two of whom died in infancy."

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85X-GFH : 4 April 2020), Caroline Shinn in household of Moses Shinn, Ellington, Adams, Illinois, United States; citing family 86, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXH7-WWY : 18 March 2020), Caroline Shinn in entry for Mary Shinn, 1860.
3. ↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK92-N9T9 : 6 November 2017), Alvin Bernethy and Carolina Shinn, 06 Mar 1862; citing Hancock, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,532,142.
4. ↑ Carrie B. Berry death record, Seattle Municipal Health Department, Death Records, 1881-1907, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, date accessed 27 October 2020.
5. ↑ Shinn, Josiah Hazen, The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America, Genealogical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1903, page 363

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4X6-JSD : 18 March 2020), Carrie Bernethy in entry for Jas Bernethy, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMPJ-XW7 : accessed 27 October 2020), Carrie B Berry in household of Louis B Berry, Precinct 2 Seattle city Ward 7, King, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 110, sheet 1B, family 15, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,745.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 October 2020), memorial page for Carolina “Carrie” Shinn (1846–1907), Find a Grave Memorial no. 22313641, citing Saar Pioneer Cemetery, Kent, King County, Washington, USA ; Maintained by Karen Bouton (contributor 46903267) .