Parents

Son of Duncan TERRY & Wysetta NOLASTNAME.

Life History

Other facts

Notes

• The Terry Family History reconstructed much of Duncan Lafayette Terry's life.  This was the starting point of my investigation into his life, as as a cousin of my great-grandfather Thomas Duncan Terry.  That research reports limited details of the last few years of his life.
  
  The will of Duncan Terry refers to Duncan L Terry as the youngest child of Duncan Terry.  He is willed a slave family, named as "Dennis my Negro man 42 years old, Edna his wife 29 years old, Harriet a girl a year old, Sally 4 years old and John one year old and the home place known as part of a lot of land No. two hundred and ninety-nine and a portion of lot to this hundred which fill ... to my part of my father's estate in  this divide of his land."  These are willed to his wife tillDuncan is 21 years old.  Duncan, born in 1855, would have been 7 years old when his father died.  I do not have the exact month of Duncan Lafayette's birth.
  
  They sold the land and moved west before his mother's death.  They moved to Scott County, Arkansas, near Waldron, east of Little Rock.  Wysetta lived to be 104 years old, surviving an Indian attack on their Arkansas homestead, and suffering a scalping that left her injured and living with a metal plate in her head for the rest of her life.
  
  Duncan Lafayette later moved west near Fort Smith, then finally into eastern Indian Territory, while cousins were in northern Texas and southern Indian Territory.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Scott County, Arkansas, 5 June, Lafayette, District 172, page 10B, Hse/Fam # 89
  Terry, Delayafette W M 26 Head  Farmer Born in Georgia, parents born in South Carolina
  Terry, Harriet W F 21 Wife  Keeping House Born in Louisiana, parents born in Tennessee.
  Terry, Louis W M 5mos born Feb 1880  Son At Home AR GA LA
  Sligo, James W M 5 Wife's brother's orphan  At Home AR TX TN
  
  1910 Federal Census, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 2 May, Prices Chapel,District 206, page 7A, Hse#103, Fam #105
  Terry, Duncan L  Head M W 54 2nd Marriage married 4 years  GA SC SC Farmer
  Terry, Mollie  Wife F W 35 2nd Marriage married 4 years  AR AR AR
  Grant [?], Rosco grandson M W 1 yr 5 mos OK AR OK
  
  Concerning his death, the Terry Family History reported the date of Duncan's last marriage, in 1905.  No children recorded of this marriage, and no specific death date found.
  -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troy/terry/terry_family_history.html
  
  I later found the 1910 census, which reported him and his wife MollieGaddy, with a grandson Rosco Grant (or some similar name, hard to read in the census).  They were in Prices Chapel, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.  This is consistent with our earlier information of him in Choctaw Nation, out of which was created LeFlore County, Oklahoma, the easternmost county of Oklahoma, bordering Arkansas, where he had lived earlier after migrating west with his mother, after 1870.

Sources

• 1. Terry Family -- History
  • Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troy/terry/terry_family_history.html;
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia
  • 21 July, Militia District 1013, PO Spring Place, page 2 (scan p544), H
• 3. 1860 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia
  • 26 July, Militia District 1013, PO Hoplers Mills, page 93, Hse #653, F
• 4. Terry Family -- Duncan-Ina Marriage
  • Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troy/terry/duncan_ina.html;
• 5. 1880 Federal Census, Scott County, Arkansas
  • 5 June, Lafayette, District 172, page 10B, Hse/Fam #89
• 6. Terry Family -- Duncan-Mollie Marriage
  • Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troy/terry/duncan_molly.html;
• 7. 1910 Federal Census, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
  • 2 May, Prices Chapel, District 206, page 7A, Hse#103, Fam #105
• 8. Terry Family -- Descendants
  • Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troy/terry/lewisterrydescendanttree.html;
• 9. Terry Family -- Duncan Terry Will
• 10. 1910 Federal Census, Le Flore County, Oklahoma
  • 14 May, Shady Point, District 161, page 12A, Hse #210, Fam #213
• 11. 1880 Federal Census, Scott County, Arkansas
• 12. 1920 Federal Census, Sebastian County, Arkansas
  • no date January, Midland Town, Jim Fork Township, District 136, page 4
• 13. Social Security Death Index