Person:Cabell Berry (1)

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Cabell Rives Berry (July 4, 1848 – August 27, 1910) was the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1885 to 1887.

Resolution on the death of Cabel Rives Berry

7. Sam M. Fleming Williamson County Quarterly Court Sept. Term 1910

By a rising vote the following resolution was adopted upon the death of C.R. Berry. Cabel Rives Berry was born July 4, 1848 in Amherst County, Virginia, the son of Dr. Marvelle Lee Berry.

He received his early education at Higginbothem Academy, Amherst Court House, Virginia, a preparatory school for the University of Virginia. At the age of sixteen, during the last year of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate army, remaining until the close. Shortly after this he left the paternal roof, starting our to make his own way in life. He remained a while in East Tennessee, connected with the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad.

In 1868 he came to Davidson County, where he taught school, at odd times reading law in the office of Judge C. Burch at Nashville. He also taught school for a number of years in Williamson County, and was three times elected here as County Superintendent.

On Dec. 18th, 1873 he married Miss Mary Oden, daughter of Thos. Oden of Brentwood, from which marriage survive three sons, Cabell R., Tyler, and Walter L., and one daughter Mrs. J.W. Canada of Memphis.

He served one term in the Tennessee legislature as Joint Representative form the Counties of Williamson and Maury, and served two terms in the State Senate, one term as Speaker of the latter body.

He was for a number of years a member of the Presbyterian Church in Franklin. During his administration as mayor, under his supervision there was installed the present excellent system of water-works.

He was admitted as a member of the Franklin Bar in the seventies. He was successively a member of the law firms of Bond & Berry, McLemore & Berry, Berry, Henderson & Berry and Berry & Berry.

He died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, Saturday Aug. 27, 1910 at 5 o’clock a.m.

As a County, City and State official he served the public with marked ability and fidelity; as a private citizen in this community he has led an exemplary life. Speaking of him particularly as a lawyer, in which capacity we came in closest contact with him, and knew him most intimately, he ranked with the best at the Franklin Bar. He had high ideals of the duties of the profession. His fidelity to the interest of his clients was unquestioned, and his zeal along this line was not surpassed. As a lawyer he was painstaking in the presentation of his cases, and he was persistent and aggressive at the bar. While this last mentioned characteristic was sometimes productive of friction, due to his zeal for his cause, this was only temporary. While he was quick to an affront he stood always ready to re-adjustment. He was a high-class gentleman; and he left his impress for good on the community. While his death for the past few years has been more or less precarious, his death comes as a shock to his professional brethren, and we gather today to pay affectionate respect to his memory