Montgomery Co. Kansas
SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP.
JOSEPH BERRY, farmer, Section 13, Township 32, Range 15 east,
 P. O. Independence. He came to Kansas and settled where he resides,
 May 12, 1869, and took a claim of 160 acres; now has 120 acres
 finely improved. He is a native of Holmes County, Ohio, born 
April 21, 1826, a son of Mark and Christena (Lozier) Berry, the
 farmer a native of Evansville, Ind., and the mother of Pennsylvania.
 Joseph, when nineteen years of age, went to Lucas County, Ohio,
 and went twenty-one began the trade of cabinet-maker at Adrian, Mich.;
 remained some three years. September 1, 1853, he married Miss Mary J. Hewett,
 a native of Jefferson County, N. Y., born July 29, 1835, and when ten 
years of age moved to Michigan, where she was educated. Mr. and Mrs. Berry
 have a family of three living children--Ida, Ira H., and Effie. During the
 late war Mr. Berry was a member of Company H. Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry,
 having enlisted August 20, 1861, and veteraned in the fall of 1863. Participated
 in all the battles of his regiment, and his brigade, composed of the First,
 Third and Fourth Ohio, and Fourth Michigan Regiment; captured Jefferson Davis
 near Irwin, Ga. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, August 16, 1865.