Berry, John F

Berry, John F.

a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Twiggs County, Ga., in 1837. He experienced conversion in 1853; received license to exhort in 1857, to preach in 1858, and in the same year entered the Georgia Conference. On Sept. 5, 1866, he was instantly killed by a flash of lightning. Mr. Berry possessed many excellent traits of character. He was unassuming, diligent, amiable, and eminently pious. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1866, p. 25.