The following obituary was written by her son S. Newton Berryhill: "DIED: At her residence in Bellefontaine, Chocktaw County, Mississippi, on the 22nd day of February, 1873, Margaret Berryhill, daughter of John and Katherine Portman, and widow of the late Samuel Berryhill. / Mrs. Berryhill was born in South Carolina in the year 1795, removed with her parents while an infant, to Kentucky, and subsequently to Tennessee; thence to Alabama. She was married to Samuel Berryhill in 1821, and settled the same year in Columbus, Mississippi, then a small hamlet. Subsequently she removed to Pickins County, Alabama, where she was converted to God in 1832, and joined the Baptist church. In 1834 she settled in Chocktaw County, Mississippi, on the place where she died. Here she soon after joined the Methodist Church, of which she remained a faithful member. She was the mother of eight children, all of whom lived to maturity, but only four of whom survive her. She was a good neighbor, and a kind affectionate Mother ."(Appeared in "The Gentle Rebel")
The following obituary was written by her son S. Newton Berryhill: "DIED: At her residence in Bellefontaine, Chocktaw County, Mississippi, on the 22nd day of February, 1873, Margaret Berryhill, daughter of John and Katherine Portman, and widow of the late Samuel Berryhill. / Mrs. Berryhill was born in South Carolina in the year 1795, removed with her parents while an infant, to Kentucky, and subsequently to Tennessee; thence to Alabama. She was married to Samuel Berryhill in 1821, and settled the same year in Columbus, Mississippi, then a small hamlet. Subsequently she removed to Pickins County, Alabama, where she was converted to God in 1832, and joined the Baptist church. In 1834 she settled in Chocktaw County, Mississippi, on the place where she died. Here she soon after joined the Methodist Church, of which she remained a faithful member. She was the mother of eight children, all of whom lived to maturity, but only four of whom survive her. She was a good neighbor, and a kind affectionate Mother ."(Appeared in "The Gentle Rebel")
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