Bertha C Sudberry

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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

BERTHA C. SUDBERRY was born on September 26, 1884, and died in infancy.
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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

JAMES HENRY SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on May
18, 1861. On November 15, 1883, according to Robert McBride, James married
MARY ELIZABETH BOYCE (born 1866). Robert McBride gives Mary's date of
death as 1914, and James's date of death as July 13, 1934.
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James married Mary Elizabeth Boyce on 15 Nov 1883. Mary was born in 1866; died in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

JOHN H. SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1841. His
marriage to CHARITY T. SMOTHERMAN (on January 21, 1859) was one of an
almost startling number of weddings between the Sudbury and Smotherman clans in
Rutherford County. Charity, the daughter of Rev. ISOM GREEN SMOTHER-
MAN, was born in 1843.

John, who would have been 20 years old in 1861, appears to have fought in the
Civil War. There are two listings in Tennesseans in the Civil War under the name
John H. Sudberry, one reading "Pvt. I Co. 1st (Feild's) Inf." and the other reading
"Pvt. Morton's L-Arty. Co." The records underlying these entries should be
obtained and reviewed.
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John married Charity Smotherman on 21 Jan 1859. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee.

JOHN L. SUDBURY was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1812. His
family migrated from Virginia to Rutherford County, Tennessee sometime after
1820. On September 25, 1838, John married SARAH WOOD in Rutherford
County. Sarah had been born in Tennessee in 1820.

John is one of only four Sudburys listed in the 1840 Tennessee census index, where
he is shown living in Robertson County (apparently a mistake for Rutherford County)
on a parcel of land next to his father. John's age in the 1840 census is listed as
between 20 and 30, while his wife, Sarah, falls into the 15-20 category. Their first
daughter, also named Sarah, is listed as under 5 years old.

In the 1850 Tennessee census index, John is listed with a middle initial "M", which
appears to be a mistake, since the 1840 and 1870 censuses give his middle initial as
"L". There is ample reason to believe that the John L. of the 1840 census and the
John M. of the 1850 census are the same individual. The John of the 1850 census is
also shown to be living on a parcel of land in Rutherford County adjacent to William
W. Sudbury, and the ages of his wife and first child match (with enough accuracy)
the categories of the 1840 census. The 1850 census lists John at age 38, his wife
Sarah at age 31, and the following children: Sarah F. (age 10), John H. (age 9),
Elizabeth R. (age 7), Mary T. (age 5), Martha A. (age 4), and Charles R. (age 3
months). A birthplace of Tennessee is listed for John's wife, Sarah.

Although there is no entry for John in the 1860 census index, an entry for him (age
58) appears in the 1870 census index in Bedford County, which is situated directly
south of Rutherford County. About John's later years, Robert Martin McBride
writes:

John L. Sudberry and his family lived until after 1870 in the 9th and 5th districts
of Bedford County. Their home was about one mile north of the village of
Longview. On that property (now owned by a Mrs. Boyce) is an old graveyard,
identified on maps as being the "Sudberry Cemetery". It contains a number of
old graves, either unmarked or with illegible inscriptions, and a number of
marked graves. This spot is probably the resting place of William and Ona
Sudberry, his parents.

John and his wife Sarah had a total of ten children. Robert McBride observes that
most of these children eventually migrated to Texas.

Robert McBride. Robert spells the last name of this branch of the family as
"Sudberry", and since that is the spelling these family members themselves appear to
use, I will follow that spelling beginning with members of the Fifth Generation.
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John married Sarah Wood on 25 Sep 1838 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Sarah was born about 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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