his father:Thomas Terry (b. 1750 England - d. S. C.)
his mother: m. Rebecca "Ann" McDowell

1850-Sarah Graydon (80 in 1850 from NC) is living with John McD. Terry in 1850. ( This is Mary's mother. I believe the record is wrong and that Sarah Graydon should only be 70 years old here.) John M. Terry is 55 years old and has $8000 in assets. Mary is 50 years old and the children still living with them are William (20), John (17), Robert (14), Sarah (11), and also Lucian McCale (m age 4 born in NC).

1857, Nov. - Sarah Terry marries Benjamin F. Jones Jr.

Jan 1858- Sarah died of typhoid at age 24 after being married only two months, member of M. E. Church from childhood. [Marriage and Death Notices from Upper SC Newspapers, 1883-1865 ]

1860 - T. O. P. Terry is 32 years old and had moved to Ashley Co., Arkansas. He was already pretty prosperous having assets of $12000 which was mostly in a number of slaves.

Two of the Terry boys enlisted in the Confederate Army. Robert Terry was in Co. A 1st Trans-Miss. 1863. John Wesley Terry apparently died in the Civil War from measles.

Robert Y. H. Terry enlisted in Co. A. 1st Trans-Mississippi Regiment, July 4, 1863. He was captured at Helena and for eight months was a prisoner at Alton, Ill. At Fort Delaware for twelve months. He was paroled three weeks before Lee's surrender. He moved to Hamburg, Arkansas in 1867, in 1871 he opened a furniture store and cabinet shop with his brother. With his nephew, Dr. A. W. Terry (son of T. O. P. Terry), he also formed a partnership of a sawmill and grist mill. [History of Arkansas, p. 921.]
 

1867- After the war William Smith Terry and Robert Terry move to Ashley Co., Arkansas where they set up a saw and grain mill. T. O. P. Terry's son, Alonzo, is also working for them. Robert Terry is listed as a cabinet maker and carpenter in the census records.

1870- Census records of Ashley Co., AR. show Robert Terry here with his mother taking care of the kids after his wife apparently dies.

          Terry, Robt       33 m     cabinet maker     $1100.00 / $500.00        S C
                 Mary       70 f     farmer     (his mother, Mary Graydon Terry)                 
                 Ann        12 f                                    
                 Minnie     5f                                      
                 Ceressi    31 f                                  
                 Alonzo     21m

          Terry, Thomas      42 m     South Carolina        $8000/$3000
                 Jane        47 f     
                 Mary        18 f                                      
                 Addie       11 f

1880- Census records of Ashley Co., Arkansas

W. S. Terry is also here with his family and lists himself as a miller. He is 49 years of age and living in Hamburg, Ashley County. [Carter Twp. Ashley Co., p 99-100]

Thomas O. P. Terry is still alive in this census at age 52, with his family, wife Janie S. age 57 of S. C., A. W. son age 31, H. M. L. dau. age 28, Annie ( wife of son) age 25. [Carter Township, Ashley Co., ed. 114, p. 14]

 R. Y. H. Terry is in Ashely County, listed as a miller, age 40 with his wife S. A. age 35, S. C., W.?I.? age 6 son, A. E. (f. born 5/12,) deceased/dau. Living with them are Elery Evans, black f. servant/cook, Chodina Sook, f age 11 servant /servant, and two boarders, J. J. Jenkins, 26, preacher, J. D. Adkins, age 32, laborer. [Carter Township, Ashley Co., ed. 114, p. 12]

 1890- The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas: Clark, Miller, Sevier, Howard, Pike, Lafayette, Hempstead, Columbia, Little River, Nevada, Cleveland, Quchita, Dallas, Bradley, Calhoun, Union, Ashley, Drew, Lincoln, Desha and Chicot Counties. By Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, andSt. louis. 1890 Republished by Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. P.O. Box 738 Easley, S. C. 29640, Southern Historical Press 1978.

 
ROBERT Y. H. TERRY is the proprietor of the Hamburg Planing Mills and was born in South Carolina on March 27, 1837, to John M. and Mary (Graydon) Terry, also natives of the Palmetto State. The Terrys are of English extraction and came to the United States shortly after the Revolution, but the Graydons and Camps, the mother's relatives, were soldiers in that war under Gens. Green, Sumter and Marion, and were in the battles of Cowpens and King's Mountain. John M. Terry lived and died in South Carolina, a leading member of the Methodist Church, and served in some official capacity most of the time after reaching manhood. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Terry, as well as his wife were members of the Methodist Church in England under Wesley. John M. Terry died in 1853, and in 1858 Robert Y. H. Terry left South Carolina for Mississippi, in which State he remained for one year, then came to Arkansas, which State he reached in December, 1859, his mother coming thither with him. He received the education and rearing which is usually given the farmer's boy , and the time of his father's death he prepared to enter college, but gave up this plan to take charge of the farm. After coming to Arkansas he opened up a woodland farm in Ashley County, near Marie Saline on the Quachita River, and on this farm remained until the war came up, when he enlisted in Company A, First Trans-Mississippi Regiment, and on Junly 4, 1863, was captured at Helena and was kept a prisoner at Alton, Ill., for eight months, Fort Delaware Twelve months and was paroled three weeks before Lee's surrender. He then came home, remained on the farm one year, and 1867 moved to Hamburg, here he has been since March, 1867. He first opened a furniture store and cabinet shop, but in 1871 built and operated with his brother and nephew, Dr. A. W. Terry, a saw and grist mill. Mary Terry died at her home in Hamburg, Ark., in 1879, in her seventy-ninth year. In 1887 the brother, William S. Terry, moved the saw mill to a location five miles south of Hamburg, after which Robert Terry engaged in his present business, at which he is doing well. His mill and machinery are valued at about $2,000, and although his trade is already large, it is rapidly increasing. In 1871 he married to Miss Sarah A. Pryor, a daughter of Rev. John Pryor, and to them two children have been born: William Trigg and Annie E. Mr. Terry and his wife belong to the Methodist Church, and he is a member of the K. of H., and his political views is a Democrat.
[History of Arkansas, p. 921.]

 "Dr. A. W. Terry received a letter from his sister, Miss Lenora Terry, Saturday night last, conveying the sad news of the death of his mother, Mrs. Jane Terry, Denver, Colorado, on Wed. July 21st, 1897. This good lady came with her husband, Mr. T. O. P. terry, and the above named children from South Carolina in 1859, the family residing in this community until 1881 when they moved to Eureka Springs. Two yeara ago they moved to faraway Colorado. [Lee p. 49]
 

"Mr. R. Y. H. Terry, for many years a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of this community, died at the home of his son, W. T. Terry, in Lebanon, Tenn. , yesterday morning. He leaves one son, W. T., and one daughter, Miss Elsie, both of whom were raised in Hamburg. He also has two nephews her: Walter Terry and Dr. A. W. Terry. He was about 72 years of age." [Lee. p148]

Corrigan, Hugh. Diary of Charles M. Terry 1856 - 1860 and Journal of James S. Terry 1852-1856.pub. 2000. 3809 Shenandoah St., Dallas, TX 75205
Bolin collection and transcription of letters to George Terry and kin, in the records of Ellen Bollin , 1139 Eastridge Dr., New Albany, IN 47150, forwarded by Hugh Corrigan, 3809 Shenandoah St., Dallas, TX 75205
The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas: Clark, Miller, Sevier, Howard, Pike, Lafayette, hempstead, Columbia, Little River, Nevada, Cleveland, Quchita, Dallas, Bradley, Calhoun, Union, Ashley, Drew, Lincoln, Desha and Chicot Counties. By Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, and St. Louis. 1890. Republished by Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., P.O. Box 738 Easley, S. C. 29640, Southern Historical Press 1978.
Greenville So. Carolina Cemetary Survey in 5 volumes, Vol. I, Pisgah Methodist Church, Fountain Inn, SC
History of Pisgah United Methodist Church, 200th Anniversary,1993 Fountain Inn, SC
Lee, Alice Kennedy. Excerpts from the Ashley County Eagle, Arkansas 1889-1914, 2000 Alice Kennedy Lee, P. O. Box 636, Cave City, KY 42127, email - danlee@scrtc.com
Marriage and Death Notices from Upper SC Newspapers, 1883-1865
Norfleet, Mary Vance, records and history as recorded by her grandmother, Anne Elcybeth "Elsie" Terry Vance. 3/5/03 - email- mvn471@montrose.net
Terry, Wilma. letter and records to Hugh Corrigan of 31 Oct 1995, 281 Hamilton Ave. #615, Norwich, CT 06360
US census records.

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