Martha Eliza Berry

  General Notes:

I believe she is buried with David Mitchell, her husband. I found this record in the Calvary cemetery database. They must have been a Catholic family as this was a catholic cemetery. She was only 31 years old, I believe.

a St. Louis friend wrote, "i knew him (Mitchell) and his lovely beautiful wife well. She died and he had her buried in his yard, so he could look from his window on to her grave. He was so lonely afterward. I often went to his house and sat with him."

She must have been beautiful; there is a portrait of her somewhere in the family.

Descendant of Pres George Washington's great great grandfather Rev Lawrence Washington III

  Medical Notes:

I found her estate files, she was only 30 years old.

I read somewhere that DD buried her in his backyard and after she died would sit very sadly looking over the yard at her. I found the death record, but no cause of death listed. It could have been anything. She did leave behind very young children.

Martha married Colonel David Dawson Mitchell, son of Charles Mitchell and Mary "Polly" Garth Mitchell, in 1840 in St. Louis. (Colonel David Dawson Mitchell was born on 31 Jul 1806 in Virginia Louisa county, died on 23 May 1861 in St. Louis and was buried in Calvary cemetery St. Louis.). The cause of his death was Jaundice.