According to "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri", Caleb Ewing Berry was born [in 1801 in Mercer County, Kentucky] as the oldest of ten children born to Richard Berry and Polly (Ewing) Berry.

From the same source, we learn that in 1820 Richard and Polly (Ewing) Berry moved their family [from Mercer County,] Kentucky to St. Charles County, Missouri and finally in 1823 they moved from St. Charles County, Missouri to Callaway County, Missouri.

We also learn the names of Richard and Polly (Ewing) Berry's ten children and the marriage partner(s) for nine of them. Caleb Ewing Berry married Virginia Fulkerson. John Berry married Margaret Galbreth. Edward G. Berry married Sallie A. Galbreth. Richard [Junior] Berry married first Elizabeth Watts and second Mary Hamilton. Samuel H. Berry married Eliza Watts. Robert Berry married first Permelia Martin and second Emily A. Scholl. Elizabeth Berry married first Thomas Yocum and second John Watts. Nancy Berry married John W,. Johnson. Mary J. Berry married James B. Yager. No mention is made of a marriage for Margaret Berry.
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January 18, 2019 -- Suggested edit: Rebecca Berry and her sister, Mary, were two of the thirteen children of Caleb Berry, son of Richard Berry, at whose home Nancy Hanks, a close relative, was married to Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln. Frank, a son of Caleb Berry, went to the front at the first call for volunteers in the Mexican War and memory still follows him fondly about Chapultepec and over the broken way of Cerro Gordo to the unmarked grave which covers him where he fell in that last deadly charge against Santa Anna.

Source: Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District. By Lilian Hays Oliver. Chedwato Service, 1964. p. 307. Repository: Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.

Contributor: Dolores J. Rush (47849893)