Elizabeth Berry
ELIZABETH BERRY
CAME TO COLLIN IN 1845
McKinney Democrat, August 1902.
Mrs. Elizabeth Berry arrived in the city Sunday from her home at Nocona, Texas, and will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. O. L. Hamilton. Mrs. Berry, whose maiden name was Meyers, came to Collin county in 1845, the year James K. Polk was inaugurated president of the United States; it also being the same year Texas was admitted into the Union. The night her family arrived in Collin the Indians made a raid on the little settlement in which they stopped, known as McGarrah settlement, situated on the farm now owned by Capt. Wygle, 3 ½ miles north west of McKinney, and stole several head of horses and killed a number of cattle, leaving their arrows in the carcasses, on account of being pursued so closely by the settlers.
On account of the Indians being such frequent visitors, Mrs. Berry’s father moved to Grayson county, where they resided some 25 years.
Mrs. Berry lived in Collin before the county site was located. She attended church at Sherman where the only public building [rest of article missing]
CAME TO COLLIN IN 1845
McKinney Democrat, August 1902.
Mrs. Elizabeth Berry arrived in the city Sunday from her home at Nocona, Texas, and will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. O. L. Hamilton. Mrs. Berry, whose maiden name was Meyers, came to Collin county in 1845, the year James K. Polk was inaugurated president of the United States; it also being the same year Texas was admitted into the Union. The night her family arrived in Collin the Indians made a raid on the little settlement in which they stopped, known as McGarrah settlement, situated on the farm now owned by Capt. Wygle, 3 ½ miles north west of McKinney, and stole several head of horses and killed a number of cattle, leaving their arrows in the carcasses, on account of being pursued so closely by the settlers.
On account of the Indians being such frequent visitors, Mrs. Berry’s father moved to Grayson county, where they resided some 25 years.
Mrs. Berry lived in Collin before the county site was located. She attended church at Sherman where the only public building [rest of article missing]
