When Patty Herrick Delmott started working on this genealogy, she was given the name Tobitha Alviria Piatt Waide Kyle. However she never found any of the names except Tobitha Piatt or Tobitha Berry. She was 22 years old and living with her parents in 1850, and she married Peter S. Berry in 1852. It would be unlikely that she married anyone else.
From book: Rediscovering Hinkletown – a Prairie Ghost Town, Chapter 5, Hinkletown Divided: The Civil War Years: Loyalty, Treason, Insurrection and Local Anarchy, by English Valley's Historical Society, Iowa County, IA.: Berry, Peter S.: Born in Pennsylvania about 1825, son of Henry and May Berry, living with his own family near his parents, Section 25 Fillmore Township in 1860. Enlisted February 25, 1864 at age 37, leaving his wife Tabitha and five children at Foote, near Green Valley. Mustered into 22nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company I also on February 25, 1864. Mustered out on July 25, 1865 at Savannah, Georgia.
General Affidavit for Pension for Tobitha Berry - Archives in D.C. - Peter Berry died at the home of her [should this be "his"] sister, Sarah Booth, in Victor, Iowa Co., Iowa, May 5, 1874. General Affidavit of H. F. Berry for pension for Tobitha Berry - "That I knew Peter Berry from 1840 until his death. I also knew Tabitha Piat some three years before her marriage to Peter Berry. They were married the 23d day of May 1852. I saw them the day of Marriage and know that they lived together until his (Peter Berry) death. They were married at Prospect Marion Co Ohio - and on the 25th day of May 1852 moved to Iowa near Davenport, and in 1870 moved to Kansas and in May 1874 went to Iowa on a visit and died there."
From Military Records, War Department, Adjustant general's office dated 7-3-1888 - "...Reg'l Hosptl (sic) Records show him admitted July 8, 1864. Intermittent returned to duty July 11, 1864. the records of this office furnish no further evidence of disability."
From Military Pension records for Peter & Tobitha Berry, General Affidavit by N. J. Moffit who lived in White City, Morris Co., KS - "Affiant deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Tobitha and Peter S Berry since the year 1852 by reason of residing in same neighborhood since 1852 and to the best of my knowledge and belief she never was married to any other person than Peter S. Berry."
Tobitha never received the military pension as she died first.
Peter and Tobitha moved soon after their marriage to Filmore Township, Iowa County, Iowa and then before 1874 to Wilsey, Morris County, Kansas.
Known children of Peter and Tobitha were as follows:
On the 1850 census of Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, are found:
Dabitha is actually Tobitha. This family enumerated 328/331 on pg 23. Living nearby was Tobitha's sister, Margaret Tunis, and husband living with Tobitha's sister, Sarah Piatt, and their nephews John and Alexander Dorn. Tobitha's sister, Eliza Piatt Paine, and family lived at #235/237. Also living nearby was:
The family next appeared as follows on the 1860 census of North English PO, Filmore Township, Iowa County, Iowa:
The family was enumerated #162/171 on pg 24 (508 image). Living at 165/174 were Peter’s parents and siblings who had evidently also moved when Peter did. Other neighbors were Jacob Booth #157, Francis Wade #163, David Connelly #164.)
Obituary - Tobitha Berry - at her home in Elm Creek township on February 10, 1891, Mrs. Tobitha Piatt Berry aged 63 years. Tobitha Piatt was born in Ohio February 10, 1828 and married to Peter S. Berry in 1853. She moved to Iowa shortly afterward, and in 1870 moved to Kansas. Her husband died in 1874. Mrs. Berry united with the Church of Christ in 1873 and has lived a devoted Christian, always faithful to her pastor and doing all she could for suffering humanity, she will be missed by all who knew her. She was the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are still living. The funeral was preached by Rev. White at the Christian Church after which the remains were interred in the Wilsey Cemetery.
From the Probate records of Tobitha Berry, Morris Co., KS courthouse: Her personal property at death consisted of 80 acres of land, horses, cow, farming implements and household goods. Administrator was her son, Jacob H. Berry. Sureties were M. B. Otis and John Weber. Her casket cost $30. Her cemetery monument and footstone cost $50. Notice of Appointment of Administrator was in the Council Grove Alliance Herald, a weekly paper, on May 15, 22, 29 and June 5, 1891. There was not much value to her estate - the most expensive thing being "labor from Sep 6, 1884 to Feb'y 6, 1891, (77 months) at $18.00 per mo. $1386.00" labor provided by J. H. Berry (also administrator).
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