Catherine Ann Berry, daughter of John Berry and his third wife Hanna Devore, and twin of Julia Ann, was born May 14, 1842 near Caldwell, in present day Burleson County, Texas and died June 19, 1929 in Hawley, Jones County, Texas in the home of her daughter Mrs. R. H. Grisham. She married Samuel B. Jackson September 22, 1859 on the Berry League in Williamson County, Texas. They were married by Reverend Overstreet. Her husband Sam was born about 1830 in Franklin County, Tennessee and died April 2, 1909 in Hawley, Jones County, Texas. His parents are unknown.

Catherine and her twin Julia were small children in 1846 when their parents settled on the Berry League in Williamson County, Texas which was to become their permanent home until they eventually married. Catherine married Samuel B. Jackson in the home of her sister, Mary Berry Compton on the 22nd of September 1859.

Her husband Sam was a cattleman and farmer, who was renting twenty acres of land from Catherine's half brother, Bate Berry when he met and later married Catherine. They lived there in Williamson County for another 28 years where all eleven of their children were born.

Catherine inherited 200 acres of land when her father, John Berry died in 1866. This land contained Berry's Mill and Millpond, near the present day site of Berry Springs Park in Williamson County. Upon the outbreak of the War of Southern Rebellion in 1861, Sam left for about a year and served in R.C. Hart's militia company, designated as the 27th Brigade, Texas Militia. He also served as a freighter for the Confederate Army.

Returning to Williamson County, Sam, along with their large family of able-bodied sons continued to work the Williamson County through the post-war reconstruction period. In 1887, Sam and Catherine decided to move on to a new frontier, and sold their Williamson County land. They selected a section of land in Jones County, Texas in what would later become the town of Hawley. The Jacksons granted the right of way through this property to the Wichita Valley Railroad on the promise that they would build a station there. That they did in 1906, and thus began the town of Hawley.

Evidently, Catherine and Sam had too many differences to remain married, and they divorced in 1902. Sam remained in Jones County, but Catherine wasn't content to allow her remaining years to pass leisurely. At the age of 69, in 1901, she along with several of her sons, her brother Silas Berry, and her nephew John Robbins, moved to Roosevelt County, New Mexico as homesteaders.

She didn't remain there long, because she soon learned that she was needed back in Texas to care for her aging mother, Hanna Berry. After burying Hannah in Midway Cemetery in Hawley, she returned to Elida, Roosevelt County, New Mexico.Sometime in 1915, she returned to Texas for the last time.

About 1925, she and her twin Julia were reunited to have their photos taken in Brownwood, Texas. The occasion was an article being written for a news service because they were the last surviving twins born in the State of Texas under the flag of The Republic of Texas. This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on May 31st, 1925.

Catherine was buried only a few feet away from the grave of her mother, Hannah. She is remembered by her family as a capable and courageous woman, and a daughter of true pioneers.