Louis, Missouri. His grandparents were enslaved people, and his parents, Martha and Henry Berry were among the many African Americans who came to St.
Louis was in search of work during World War II from the rural South.
Chuck Berry parents: Meet Martha Berry, Henry Berry
The “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Chuck Berry, was introduced to music at a young age in school and church. As a child, he was sentenced to three years in prison for armed robbery.
Henry Berry Lowry was a Lumbee outlaw who lived from 1845 to 1872. During and during the American Civil War, he led the eponymous Lowry Gang in North Carolina.
He is remembered by many North Carolinians as a Robin Hood character.
Capt. Thomas Berry, a soldier of the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and Frances Margaret Rhea, the daughter of an Alabama planter, had a daughter named Martha McChesney Berry.
Berry was born at Berry Cove, Jackson County, Alabama, on October 7, 1865, but her family moved to Rome, Georgia, when she was a baby.
