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Person · Maria Louise Chenault
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationMaria Louise Chenault
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
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Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 15 July 1851
- Died
- 13 July 1933
- Parents
- David Chenault & Nannie
- Married
- Benjamin C. Barry
- Sources
- 8
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names her father; entered in the family tree the same day.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1851
Born
15 July 1851, Tennessee; the Mariah, 8, of her father's household in 1860
S206Death1933
Died 13 July 1933, Sumner County, Tennessee
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, as
Mariah Louise Barry, 58 and widowed, she owned her farm free of mortgage in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, with her daughters Mamie, 27, and Jessie May, 24; she had borne 5 children, 2 of them living
S586. added 25 September 2026.
Death1933
🆕 Her death certificate, as
Mrs Maria Louise Barry, died 13 July 1933 in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, gives her birth as
15 July 1851 in Tennessee and names her father
David Chenault and her mother, maiden name
Quinesberry, both born in Kentucky
Confirmed S961. She was buried in the Barry graveyard. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 she was still head of her own farm, owned free, in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County:
Mariah Barry, 68, widowed, with her daughter Jessie, 33, and her grandchildren Louise Barry Cecil and Roy Barry Cecil
Confirmed S1064. added 29 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880
Mariah, 28, was keeping house in the Second District of Sumner County with her husband, entered as B. P. Barry, 33, a farmer, and their sons
Albert, 4, and
Wallace, 1
Confirmed S1163. In June 1900, widowed and 48, she owned her farm free in the 2nd Civil District, born in
July 1852 by that census, mother of five children, two living, with her daughters Jessie May and [Hannie?]
Confirmed S1164. Her given name is partly illegible on the 1900 page; Albert and Wallace are not in the house by then.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1875
Married
Benjamin C. Barry, licence 9 August 1875, Sumner County
S554Parents1850
🆕 Her mother: probably
Louisa Quisenberry Chenault Probable confirm or correct →, David's only wife seen from 1850 to 1880. In 1870 “Mima L.”, 18, is in David and Louisa Chenault's household at Castalian Springs
S397, as Mariah, 8, was in 1860
S206. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the censuses state no relationships, “Mima L.” is not plainly “Maria L.”, and her 1933 death certificate gives her mother only by the maiden name “Quinesberry”, from an informant
S961. added 28 September 2026.
In the record
Generation 5 — Earl's great-great-grandparents and their siblings
- S2061860 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, District 3, Sumner County, Tennessee (P.O. Gallatin). Ancestry record 22605797; page 48, dwelling 323. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. David Chenault, 60, farmer, born Kentucky, RE $52,600, PE $31,120; Louisa, 48, born Kentucky; Nancy, 15; with Harvy 23, [Lucy?] 12, Milton 11, Mariah 8 and William 6. 🔑 Nannie at fifteen in her father's house, ten years after [S97]. ⚠ The household may continue on page 49 (not fetched); one sister's name is not certain.
- S3971870 U.S. Federal Census — David Chenault household, 3rd Civil District, Sumner Co., Tennessee, P.O. Castalian Springs, page 5, lines 35–40. Ancestry record 10638827. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David Chenault, 70, farmer, real estate $50,200, personal estate $14,000, born Kentucky; Louisa, 58, keeping house, with her own real estate of $8,200, born Kentucky; Milton W., 21, farmer, born Tennessee; Mima L., 18; Wm, 16, at school; Fillmore, 14; enumerated 19 July 1870. The household runs on to the next sheet (see S385).
- S554Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records — Sumner County, 1875. Ancestry record 5589304. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence of 9 August 1875: Benjamin C. Barry and Maria L. Chenault.
- S5861910 U.S. census — Civil District 2, Sumner County, Tennessee, ED 131, sheet 14B. Ancestry record 27544881. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mariah Louise Barry, head, 58, widowed, the mother of 5 children, 2 of them living, her parents born in Kentucky, owning her farm free of mortgage; her daughters Mamie, 27, and Jessie May, 24.
- S961Tennessee certificate of death, state no. 15453 — Mrs Maria Louise Barry, 2nd Civil District, Sumner County, 13 July 1933. Ancestry record 30376385. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs Maria Louise Barry, white, widow, housekeeper, born 15 July 1851 in Tennessee, died 13 July 1933 at 1.15 p.m. in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, aged 81 years 11 months 28 days, of angina pectoris. Father David Chenault, born Kentucky; mother's maiden name Quinesberry, born Kentucky. Informant Mr. Henry Dun[…] of Gallatin; buried in the Barry graveyard 14 July 1933; undertaker John R. Harris, Gallatin. Her birth date and her parents come from the informant, 82 years after her birth; the death date and place are primary. "Quinesberry" is a spelling of Quisenberry, as "Lizzie Eastberry" on her sister Nannie's certificate (S208) seems to be. Collection: Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908–1965.
- S10641920 United States Federal Census — Second Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee, S.D. 4, E.D. 117, sheet 13A, dwelling 255. Ancestry record 36254676. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed 28 January 1920, enumerator Wm. A. Gregory: Mariah Barry, head, owns free, 68, widowed, born Tennessee, farmer, general farm; Jessie, daughter, 33, single; Louise Barry Cecil, granddaughter, 8; Roy Barry Cecil, grandson, 3(?). The same district and the same daughter Jessie as the 1910 census (S586).
- S11631880 U.S. census, Second District, Sumner County, Tennessee, SD 3, ED 208, p. 31, lines 6–9 (25–26 June 1880). Ancestry record 16811255. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed B. P. Barry, 33, married, farmer, born Tennessee; Mariah, wife, 28, keeping house, born Tennessee; Albert, son, 4; Wallace, son, 1; with a boarder, Maria Billings(?), 56, and three household staff. The husband’s second initial reads P but could be C; the 1875 licence (S554) has Benjamin C. Barry. Mariah’s parents are entered as born in Tennessee, where her other records say Kentucky.
- S11641900 U.S. census, 2nd Civil District, Sumner County, Tennessee, SD 4, ED 104, sheet 13A, lines 38–40, dwelling 220 (June 1900). Ancestry record 61297909. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed Barry, Ma[riah?], head, born July 1852, 48, widowed, mother of 5 children, 2 living, born Tennessee, both parents born Kentucky; owns her farm free; with her daughters [Hannie?], born about 1887, at school, and Jessie May, born May 1886. Her given name is partly illegible (indexed Martha); only ‘Ma’ is certain. The identification rests on the July birth month, the widowed Barry farm in the same district, the Kentucky-born parents and Jessie May, who is with her again in 1910 (S586). The younger daughter’s name could also be read Wallie or Nannie.