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BRANCH COUNTY 1833 QUINCY
I am informed that his sister, now Mrs. Harger (widow), was an attendant on Queen Victoria and was present at her coronation.
Joseph Berry returned to Quincy in '36. He "paid his respects" to Miss Sophia Brown, a half-sister of Mrs. Anson, of the hotel. Mr. Anson's people were very much opposed to her going with Joe Berry, and one day in February, '37, being annoyed beyond all endurance, she put on her bonnet, walked down to Samuel Berry's, found "Joe" tramping out wheat with horses in the barn, and said to him: "If you ever intend to marry me, now is the time. " Joseph immediately hitched one of the horses into a cutter, made of poles. Sophia stepped in and the happy pair drove down to James Corbus' and were married, and they returned to Mr. Berry's as bride and groom. During the summer "Joe" traded 80 acres, now Lincoln Briggs' place, with Mr. Cornish for his property, bought out Anson's lease of the hotel and went to tavern-keeping till '43, when he sold it to a Mr. Smith. Mr. Cornish lived in the log cabin he first put up, till he built a log house on his new farm. During the summer of '37 a post office was established in Quincy, and Dr. Berry was the first postmaster. Ezra was placed in charge of the office and kept its contents in a bushel basket. What advancement an postal accommodations has been made, may be seen when we contrast the bushel basket with our elegant and orderly post office to-day.
This year all the prairie on the southwest corner of the public square was plowed up and became a field and continued so till '45.
The venerable Father James Clizbe made his appearance during the summer, bought the Bagley property of Mr. Broughton, and made that his home for a number of years.
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