... His great-grandparents were of English birth. He grandfather Bazil Berry,
and his son Benjamin, emigrated from Maryland, their native state, about
the year 1790, and settled in Bourbon County, Ky. Benjamin was born at
Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1772, and was first married, shortly after his
arrival in Kentucky to Miss Bowen, a sister of Benjamin Bowen who is well
known in the northern part of this County. By this marriage there were ten
children. He next married Elizabeth Gault, of Chambersburg, Penn.; the
result of this union was two children, one daughter Amanda, who is now the
wife of Dr. N. Cannon, of Scott County, Ky., and one son, Joel S. who is
the subject of our sketch. He remained at the homestead and assisted his
father in the duties of the farm until his father's death, which occurred
on the 3rd of April 1847. ...
