Uriah G. Berry (c1817-1869)

Uriah Berry was a prosperous merchant in Livingston County, Kentucky. He probably met his wife Amanda either on the ferry across the Ohio River or in its terminus of Golconda, Illinois, where she lived. Uriah's father John supposedly operated this ferry. Online records indicate that he served as postmaster for Berry's Ferry in 1851 and was honored with a payment of $30 from the state treasury for arresting counterfeiters that same year. Curiously, a book about love stories on the Underground Railroad features one Isaac Berry, a slave presumed to be the 21-year-old black male owned by Uriah in 1850. This slave escaped (apparently from an owner Uriah had sold him to) from Missouri to marry a white woman he had known well as a slave. Uriah died from "disease of the heart" in December 1869.

Children

 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" style="color: #000000;" |Children of John Murray Forbes and Mary Elizabeth Semmes
 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" style="color: #000000;" |Children of John Murray Forbes and Mary Elizabeth Semmes