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I am looking for a Martha TERRY possibly d/o James & Elizabeth LEAJE TERRY in Henry or Patrick Co, VA. Please contact me if you have any information.
However, I ran across this 1888 GOODSPEED article in Kansas City, Mo at the Mid-Continent Library that is about the "History of Adair, Sullivan & Putnam & Schuyler Co, MO" on page 916 and 917. and thought it would help all you TERRY researchers. Here goes:
Rev. Ira L. TERRY, a farmer and stock raiser of Penn Township was born in MORRIS CO, NJ, March 5, 1818, and is the eldest son of NATHANIEL and SARAH (COLEMAN) TERRY, also natives of the same county, and born Feb 13, 1793, and Mary 6, 1794, respectively. They received but a meager education, and were married Feb 1, 1817, and in Feb, 1823, removed to NEW YORK, and, some time after the war, in 1866, removed to Flushing, MICHIGAN, where they lived the remainder of their lives. The father died april 2, 1879, and the mother four or five years previous. The former was of English , and the latter of Dutch origin. Mr. Terry was a farmer, and a son of Caleb Terry. Mr. Terry was a farmer, and a son of Caleb Terry. Our subject was reared under the parental roof, and received a common-school education, but for the greater part of his knowledge he is indebted to his own efforts. After teaching a few years he attended Groton Academy. After that he worked at carpentering during the summer, and taught school during the winter months for several years. September 7, 1841, he was united in Marriage to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Philo Lois (Osborn) Foot, a native of NY. To this couple seven children were given, five of whom are living, viz: Natanial W (Of Kansas), Philo Foot, Lois Ida (wife of James F Van Vleet, of New York), Mary ella (wife of Clement W Meals), and Bishop Olin. Mr Terry remained in New York until 1873, when he removed to Sullivan Co (Mo), and located in Penn Township where he has a fine farm of 286 acres, one and one-half miles west of Greencastle, 240 acres north of Green City, and eighty acres in Buchanan Township. Mr. Terry is one of the prominent and enterprising agriculturists of the county, and his property is nearly all the result of his own industry, frugality, good management and financiering. He has made farming his sole occupation, in connection with which he has, for a number of years, been engaged in carpentering. He is an active worker in educational enterprises, and is greatly interested in the general welfare and prosperity of the country, and has given his children the advantages of a good business education. In early life he was a Whig, being reared under Whig influence, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen Harrison, but recently he has identified himself with the Prohibition party, of which he is an active and earnest worker. He was formerly a Mason. When about twenty-two years of age, Mr. Terry received a license from the Methodist Episcopal Church to act as a local preacher, and has been more or less engaged in that good work ever since, meeting with encouraging results. Soon after his removal to Sullivan County he succeeded in rallying the disorganization of the denomination at that place, which has been in a healthy condition every since. Mr. Terry has been a faithful (cutoff) member of the Methodist Church almost since (cutoff.).
(End of that article)
Next article is of R. H. B. TERRY, b. 1828...son of Nathaniel & Sarah (COLEMAN) TERRY. Went to Wisconsin in 1856 and married in 1862 to Miss Mary F, d/o Emeline Coleman, of Wisconsin. Mr Terry lived in Sullivan Co, MO...(this is abstrat version of this second article)
*Caleb Terry
*Nathaniel & Sarah Coleman Terry
*Ira L. Terry (b. 3/5/1818 in Morris Co, NJ) Married 9/7/1841 to Miss Mary Ann Foot d/o Philo & Lois (Osborn) Foot, a native of NY
Children of Ira & Mary Ann Foot Terry are--(5 that are living in 1888):
* Nathaniel W. (Of Kansas) Terry
* Philo Foot Terry
* Lois Ida Terry (wife of James F Van Vleet, of New York)
* Mary Ella Terry (wife of Clement W Meals),
* Bishop Olin Terry
Ira's brother is R. H. B. Terry of Sullivan co, MO.
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