Della May Berry, the sixth child of William and Caroline (Boone) Berry, was born on February 5, 1891. Della May never married or had children, and lived with her parents on their farm until her untimely death at age 26 on June 16, 1917. While her death certificate lists tuberculosis as the cause of death, the "Spanish flu" was probably also a factor, given the year of death and Berry family oral tradition: "That's a picture of William and Caroline's daughter and her name was Della Berry, she also died in the 1910s from the influenza epidemic" (Russell 2012).
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