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Fama Berry

Fama Berry

Female 1791 - 1886  (94 years)   Has 4 ancestors and 48 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Fama Berry
    Birth 4 Dec 1791  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    _TAG Uncle/Aunt ancestors 
    _UID ED2E898DD2DAD4118AC44445535400004025 
    Death 6 Feb 1886  Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17923  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2019

    Father Henry Berry,   b. 1760/1770   d. 1853, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Mother Hayes,   b. 1755/1774   d. 1820/1830, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    Marriage Bef 1790  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID A3FCAB32C6C164458EF66F9EAA8DC23B71A8 
    Family ID F8939  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nathan Tart,   b. Bef 1775, Georgetown Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1825, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 50 years)
    Marriage 1810/1815  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 0BD5AFDDC6014945AF977B30CC5E46EB0DBC 
    Children 
     1. Enos D Tart,   b. 1810/1820, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1840, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 21 years)
     2. Elizabeth Tart,   b. 1814/1815, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 36 years)
     3. James H Tart,   b. Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Henry Hepsey Tart,   b. 22 Jul 1820, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Cpt Thomas Edward Tart,   b. 20 Sep 1822, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1870, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 49 years)
     6. Jane Tart,   b. 25 Sep 1824, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 27 years)
    Family ID F8929  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

    Family 2 Gadi Crawford,   b. 1790/1793, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Nov 1837, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
    Marriage Type: Unmarried 
    _UID 9D828FF7DB615E48AB13127DAD4F7A8BD548 
    Children 
     1. Gadi Tart,   b. 1828/1829, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1864, Gettysburg, PA or Petersburg, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
     2. Nancy E Tart,   b. 1 Sep 1830, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1907, Marion Co, SC (now Dillon Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F32196  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 755 Marion Co., SC Nathan Tart 1825
      1 Aug 1825 Fama Tart, Henry Berry Sr, adms.
      ...
      no heirs named;

      !CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist., SC pg 49
      Fama Tart age 30-39 (1790/1800)
      1211-112001, slaves=000000-100000;

      !CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 140 Fanny TART age 40-49 (1790/1800) "00111-0311001";

      !CENSUS:1850;

      !CENSUS:1860;

      !CENSUS:1870;

      !CENSUS:1880;

      !BIRTH/MARRIAGE/DEATH:From "The Pee Dee Index" - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;


      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 148-157
      ...
      - Henry was a man of family, and had lands granted to him on Little Reedy Creek in 1786; he married a Miss Hays, and settled on said Reedy Creek; he raised two sons, Dennis and Slaughter, and four daughters. Dennis and Slaughter married sisters, two daughters of David Miles, an old citizen of upper Marion. Of the four daughters, Elizabeth married Bryant Jones; Fama married Nathan Tart; Martha, called Pattie, married John M. Miles; and Mary married William Rogers. The father, Henry Berry, was a capital man and intelligent for his day and time; he served as Justice of the Peace for some years, evidenced by his official signature to the probate of deeds for record seen by the writer he accumulated a good property for his time; he founded or built the Catfish Baptist Church, not where it now stands, but back from its present location on Little Reedy Creek. In his old age he divided out his property among his children, and then lived among them himself till his death, about 1853 or 1854; he was over ninety years of age at his death.
      ...
      Fama Berry, who married Nathan Tart, born in 1791, and died in 1884, was a most remarkable woman, physically and mentally. The writer went to see her a year or so before she died ; she was very large and corpulent, suppose she weighed 250 or more ; she said she had never in her life been sick but little, and had never taken any medicine, except what she prescribed for and could procure for herself; her mental powers were unimpaired and her memory of persons, families and events excelled anything of the kind I ever met with. I wrote her obituary and published it in the "Marion Star" newspaper, soon after her death. She was not sick when she died, as it was told the writer by her son-in-law, Wilson Hays -who called in a physician to see her, who said the fat had overgrown the heart so as to prevent its action, and no relief was possible. Fama Tart raised several sons, Enos, James H., H. Tart, Thomas E. and Gadie, and several daughters. The sons are, perhaps, all dead; also the daughters, except Jane, who married Willis Waters, who lives in Florence County; and Wilson Hays' wife. H. H. Tart, who was an excellent and energetic man of high character in his sphere of life, died last year, about seventy-eight years of age. Fama Tart's children and great-grand-children, and even another generation of them, are numerous. ;

      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 193-197

      Tart ...
      Nathan Tart, the youngest brother of old Enos, married Fama Berry, a daughter of old Henry Berry, as already herein noted by their marriage a considerable family resulted of sons and daughters. Nathan Tart died in middle life and left his widow, Fama, and children. Fama Tart, as heretofore noted, was one of the most remarkable women that the writer ever saw. Of this family of Tarts, I think I have already written. Nathan and Fama Tart also had a son, named Enos, who was called by way of contradistinction, "Russell Enos." The name is continued down for two or three generations further. ;


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