The Berry Family

The Berry brothers gave Berryville its first name and paid dearly for the frontier. Sons of Jesse and Amelia Berry, they founded the settlement that became Glendale. Three of the family — Joseph, Robert, and Robert's wife Isabella — were killed in April 1866, during the Black Hawk War the Ute waged to hold their homeland; they lie now in Grafton. The violence followed the family beyond Utah: William was shot by a mob while serving a mission in Tennessee in 1884, and John William, carrying mail for Brigham Young, took a bullet he carried until he died.

What the plaque says

Four early Church pioneers, sons of Jesse Woods and Amelia Shanks Berry, were the founders of Berryville, now Glendale, Utah. Joseph S. and Robert M. and his wife Isabelle Hale Berry, were killed by Indians April 2, 1856. They are burried in Grafton, near Rockville. A mob shot and killed William Shanks Berry while on a mission in Tennessee in 1884. John William, while carrying mail for Brigham Young, was shot by an Indian and carried the bullet until his death. A large and faithful posterity live to honor them.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Carmel Junction — 7.8 mi
  The crossroads where the road to Zion meets the highway to Bryce
• Checkerboard Mesa — 17 mi
  A 900-foot dome of Navajo sandstone scored into a natural grid, near Zion's east entrance
• Best Friends Animal Sanctuary — 19 mi
  The largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States
• Kanab — 19 mi
  Little Hollywood — where hundreds of Western movies were filmed

More markers nearby

• Glendale — 0.2 mi
• United Order Woolen Mill — 1.7 mi
• Orderville Bell — 3.6 mi
• Old Rock Schoolhouse — 3.6 mi