• 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 John's siblings: Cynthia Lovinia Berry, Thirza Melvina Berry, William Shanks Berry, Robert Madison Berry, and Joseph Smith Berry.  Her daughter Louisa Jane Berry Allen came in the same company with her husband Daniel Allen.

  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.
• “Home Items: Whites And Indians Killed," Deseret News, 26 April 1866, 165.
• Utah Cemetery Inventory
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.