Catherine Ann Jackson

Catherine Ann Berry Jackson BIRTH 14 May 1842 Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA DEATH 19 Jun 1929 (aged 87) Hawley, Jones County, Texas, USA BURIAL Midway Cemetery Hodges, Jones County, Texas, USA MEMORIAL ID 39835190 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 4 FLOWERS 2 Catherine Ann Berry, daughter of John Berry and his third wife Hanna Devore, and twin of Julia Ann, was born May 14, 1842 near Caldwell, in present day Burleson County, Texas and died June 19, 1929 in Hawley, Jones County, Texas in the home of her daughter Mrs. R. H. Grisham. She married Samuel B. Jackson September 22, 1859 on the Berry League in Williamson County, Texas. They were married by Reverend Overstreet. Her husband Sam was born about 1830 in Franklin County, Tennessee and died April 2, 1909 in Hawley, Jones County, Texas. His parents are unknown.

Catherine and her twin Julia were small children in 1846 when their parents settled on the Berry League in Williamson County, Texas which was to become their permanent home until they eventually married. Catherine married Samuel B. Jackson in the home of her sister, Mary Berry Compton on the 22nd of September 1859.

Her husband Sam was a cattleman and farmer, who was renting twenty acres of land from Catherine's half brother, Bate Berry when he met and later married Catherine. They lived there in Williamson County for another 28 years where all eleven of their children were born.

Catherine inherited 200 acres of land when her father, John Berry died in 1866. This land contained Berry's Mill and Millpond, near the present day site of Berry Springs Park in Williamson County. Upon the outbreak of the War of Southern Rebellion in 1861, Sam left for about a year and served in R.C. Hart's militia company, designated as the 27th Brigade, Texas Militia. He also served as a freighter for the Confederate Army.

Returning to Williamson County, Sam, along with their large family of able-bodied sons continued to work the Williamson County through the post-war reconstruction period. In 1887, Sam and Catherine decided to move on to a new frontier, and sold their Williamson County land. They selected a section of land in Jones County, Texas in what would later become the town of Hawley. The Jacksons granted the right of way through this property to the Wichita Valley Railroad on the promise that they would build a station there. That they did in 1906, and thus began the town of Hawley.

Evidently, Catherine and Sam had too many differences to remain married, and they divorced in 1902. Sam remained in Jones County, but Catherine wasn't content to allow her remaining years to pass leisurely. At the age of 69, in 1901, she along with several of her sons, her brother Silas Berry, and her nephew John Robbins, moved to Roosevelt County, New Mexico as homesteaders.

She didn't remain there long, because she soon learned that she was needed back in Texas to care for her aging mother, Hanna Berry. After burying Hannah in Midway Cemetery in Hawley, she returned to Elida, Roosevelt County, New Mexico.Sometime in 1915, she returned to Texas for the last time.

About 1925, she and her twin Julia were reunited to have their photos taken in Brownwood, Texas. The occasion was an article being written for a news service because they were the last surviving twins born in the State of Texas under the flag of The Republic of Texas. This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on May 31st, 1925.

Catherine was buried only a few feet away from the grave of her mother, Hannah. She is remembered by her family as a capable and courageous woman, and a daughter of true pioneers.

Family Members Parents Photo John Berry 1786–1866

Photo Hannah Devore Berry 1812–1904

Spouse Photo Samuel B. Jackson 1830–1909 (m. 1859)

Siblings Elizabeth Berry Bradberry 1820–1859

Photo Hannah Berry Hughes 1823–1863

Margaret Berry Chadwick 1825–1866

Photo Polly Mary Berry Compton 1832–1902

Photo Emanuel Berry 1834–1912

Photo John Berry 1836–1921

Photo Jane Berry Rumsey 1839–1883

Julia Ann Berry Robbins 1841–1937

Photo Virginia Devore Berry Murphy 1855–1906

Photo Patrick Henry Berry 1855–1860

Photo George Washington Berry 1857 – unknown

Half Siblings Photo John Bate Berry 1813–1891

Photo Andrew Jackson Berry 1816–1899

Joseph Berry 1818–1842

Children Photo Anna Belle Jackson Nivens 1860–1937

Photo Joseph Blueford Jackson 1862–1888

Photo Henry Clay Jackson 1864–1947

Photo Jesse Preston Jackson 1866–1935

Photo Mary Catherine Jackson Coons 1868–1961

Photo Samuel Emzy Jackson 1871–1951

Photo Charles B. Jackson 1873–1929

Photo Emma Jane Jackson Martin 1877–1963

Photo Calvin Brasfield Jackson 1878–1948

Photo James Ernest Jackson 1882–1951

Photo Fannie Desry Jackson Grisham 1884–1973

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