HISTORY OF PASCO COUNTY

Blanton

John Jordan O’Berry

This page is taken, with permission, from the former My Blanton web site, created by Marinell Davis.

Birth: 8 MAY 1857(9) in Blackshear, Pierce Co., Ga.

Father: Henry Bassett O’Berry b: 8 MAR 1836 in Pierce County, Georgia

Mother: Rebecca Dowling b: 3 JAN 1831 in Ware County, Georgia

Marriage 1 Emma Candes Blanton b: 12 NOV 1865 in Madison County, Florida; d. 1927

Married: 12 NOV 1885

Father: Jessie Goodman Blanton b: 9 SEP 1831

Mother: Martha Elizabeth Howell b: 8 MAR 1839 in South Carolina

Children:

• Jessie O’Berry
• Ruth O’Berry
• May O’Berry
• Pearl O’Berry b: 1893 in Blanton, FL, d. Aug.6, 1989 St. Petersburg Marriage 1 Charles T. Townsend
• Warren Holman O’Berry b: 29 AUG 1894, d. 1961 Occupation: Milne-O’Berry Citrus Packing Plant in Seminole Married: Elsie Turner

In the 1880 census, J. J. O’Berry was living with his uncle, J. M.O’Berry in Precincts 9 & 10, Hernando County.