• The Berry family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company in 1849.  The family included widowed Armelia Shanks Berry and her children, John Williams Berry, Louisa Jane Berry Allen (wife of Daniel Allen), Cynthia Lovinia Berry, Thirza Melvina Berry, William Shanks Berry, Robert Madison Berry, and Joseph Smith Berry.

  Robert, his wife Mary Isabella Hales Berry, and Robert's brother Joseph were all killed by Indians in 1866.

Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 8

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Utah Cemetery Inventory
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
• “Whites And Indians Killed," Deseret News [Weekly], 26 April 1866, 165.