Ancestry of
Kate Capshaw

Movie Actress

Berry Nail

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Kate Capshaw — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Henry Nail 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Keller   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Nov 1820 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rowan County, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Oct 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • near Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsboro, Montgomery, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Lucinda Mills
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Aug 1863 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Montgomery County, Illinois 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Frank Nail

  Richard Henry Nail (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Estella Nail

  Martha Elizabeth Nail

  Alfred B. Nail

  Thomas E. Nail

  Robert L. Nail

  • Notes: 

  • Berry Nail's given name is also seen as Greenberry.

    Berry Nail is said to have died at the home of George and Margaret Bolinger near Litchfield, Illinois.

• Additional marriages for Berry Nail

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Dec 1840
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shelby County, Indiana

• Sources for Berry Nail

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Montgomery County, 1880, Hillsboro, E.D. 147, p. 10, Image 10 of 22.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Montgomery County, 1870, Hillsboro, Image 40 of 87.
  • ³ Federal Census, IN, Shelby County, 1850, Sugar Creek, Image 2 of 17.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, IL, Montgomery County, 1860, Township 8 Range 4, p. 28, Image 4 of 16.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, IL, Montgomery County, 1870, Hillsboro, p. 40, Image 40 of 87.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/26/2018).
  • ⁷ Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900, Marriage record for Berry Nail and Mary L Mills.
  • ⁸ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for daughter Martha Elizabeth Cress.
  • ⁹ Indiana, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, Marriage record for Berry Nail and Elizabeth Bass.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865, IL, Montgomery County, 10th Dist., Vol. 3, Image 19 of 617.
  • ¹¹ Sherer, Julia S., et. al., The Families of Henry Nail & Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & Elizabeth Pearce, 2nd ed., Shelbyville, Indiana: Nail-Ray and Allied Families Association (1997), pp. 73, 433, #N14c.
  • ¹² Strange, Alexander T., ed., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County, Vol. II, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company (1918), 1122.

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