Margaret Anne Berry was born on February 22, 1848. She married William A. Edwards on October 3, 1872. They lived near Ackerman in Choctaw County, Mississippi. They had eight children: Lem, Mollie, Lou, Charlie, Non Quincy, Cicero, Gus, and Nettie. These children and their families still live in Mississippi. Anne Berry Edwards died in 1946 just after her 98th birthday.
Reverend Non Q. Adams was teaching school in Choctaw County at the outbreak of the Civil War. He served with distinction during the war, and in one battle he lost his left arm. He served eight years as a member of the State Senate from Oktibbeha and Choctaw Counties. He conducted extensive farming operations. He was president of a bank in Sturgis; and even after he was seventy-five years of age, he served as a member of the House of Representatives in Mississippi.
Ella passed away several years-ago. Four of her children live in Dallas; and Ruth and Ruby, her two daughters, live in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Barrett daughters married William Halbert who lived in the adjoining Oktibbeha County. Mary Celina Barrett, another at that time, a family named Barrett lived in Choctaw County about seventy-five miles south of Cherry Creek. One of the daughters married Marcus Gray of Choctaw County. They had one son, Marcus Gray, Jr., who was born on July 22, 1843. Shortly after his son's birth, Marcus Gray passed away. Through his cousin, William Halbert, Xenophon met Mrs. Mary Celina Cray; and on October 13, 1846, they were married. Xenophon and Mary Celina reared a family consisting of his two daughters by his first marriage, Elizabeth and Emily; her son, Marcus Gray, Jr., who was killed on July 19, 1864, while fighting at the Battle of Vicksburg; and seven children born to them: Margaret Anne, William Halbert, Augustus Posey, Joel Franklin, Thomas Cicero, Micajah Holden, and Daniel Madison.
On January 4, 1848, Xenophen and Mary Celina sold their one hundred acre farm in Tippah County to his mother, Lucinda Berry; and shortly thereafter, they moved to Choctaw County where their children were reared. They continued to live in Choctaw County until his death on March 29, 1877; she lived on their farm until she passed away on April 2, 1879. They are buried in the Wake Forest Baptist Church Cemetery near Sturgis, Mississippi.
They had one son, Marcus Gray, Jr., who was born on July 22, 1843. Shortly after his son's birth, Marcus Gray passed away
, Marcus Gray, Jr., who was killed on July 19, 1864, while fighting at the Battle of Vicksburg