Sophia J. Berry

  General Notes:

Quote from Wayne Glenn, the old record collector:
Sophia was born near the current Berry (Maples) Cemetery on the "Loop" near Hooten Town in 1840 to Francis Patrick Berry (1817-1885) and Nancy Minerva Gideon. This was in then Taney County-----now in Stone County.
Sophia first married James Payne (1829, TN-1882) who had been raised near the current Payne Cemetery, on the James River north of Nixa, by his uncle Archibald Payne. James Payne fought on the Union side in the Civil War.
When Sophia Berry Payne married Thomas Hagewood of the Republic area she of course moved in with him. She had 8 children who were "mostly" grown, although her youngest, John Payne did live with the Hagewoods. Thomas had many mostly grown children as well.
When her husband Thomas Hagewood passed away in 1904, Sophia was not really included in his will------which was only to be expected. BUT she had no home. After living with some of her children she remarried in 1909 in Christian County to a German immigrant by the name of Charles Bader. He was born in Bavaria long before the U. S. Civil War. Sophia was now 69 years young. Mr Bader had come to the Ozarks by 1880 from IL. He was a minister and merchant. The newlyweds lived near Tory Creek------not far from where Sophia and her first husband had taken up housekeeping around 50 years before.
****This third marriage was a quick failure---and the relationship was annulled.
So from 1909 until her death in 1925 Sophia went from one child to another. At one time, her son "Uncle Pad" Payne had a little house across the road from his big farm, where "Grandma Hagewood" lived-----out northwest of Nixa.
But as her health declined Sophia spent more time with her daughters, most notably Easter Payne Graham (1868-1958) of Tory Creek. Easter and her husband John Graham and kids lived where Sophia and James had previously had their farm, on the Stone---Christian County line, southwest of Tory.
In 1925 Sophia passed away and was buried with her first husband James in a little family cemetery that was basically in the "backyard" of the Payne-Graham farm, on the Stone County side of the line.
What do I know about Sophia Jane Berry Payne Hagewood Bader's personality. She was a go getter!! How do you think she survived the trials of the Civil War, while her husband was away at War------and then the loss of that husband when she was only 42 years old. Like most pioneer women she was TOUGH and she had a mind of her own. She was smart and found ways to make it for 43 more years after husband James died. She was a proud lady-----notice all the pictures she is in---when such photographs were not so normal.
Of course, having the blood of the Irish Berrys and Gideons didn't hurt either!

Sophia married Thomas Hagewood, son of Benjamin Hagewood and Mary "Polly" Robertson, on 18 Sep 1887 in Stone Co., MO. (Thomas Hagewood was born on 20 Mar 1820 in Tennessee, died on 3 Dec 1904 in Republic, Greene, Missouri, USA and was buried in Lindsey Chapel Cemetery, Republic, Greene, Missouri, United States.)