Life History

Notes

• Some genealogies, even family sources, for Jesse Terry have mis-recorded his name as Jake.  This appears to be from a mis-reading of the entry in the 1880 census, which is written in the old style lettering, where the first s of a double s is written very much like an f, based on the old style Elizabethan spelling.
  
  This was still used quite late in the Eastern states of the US.  The second S of the double-s written this way connects to the middle of the first s, which can make it look somewhat like a k to someone unfamiliar with that type of script.  But they missed the double E -- Jessee -- which is unusual.
  
  In 1870, it is spelled in the more usual way as Jesse, but again with the old double-s.  In that census it actually looks like a modern writing of Jepe.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 23 July, Spring Place, page 7, Hse/Fam #49
  Terry, William 60 M W Farmer  $6000 Real Estate $60 Personal b SC Cannot write
  Terry, Julia A  49 F W Keeping House  NC Cannot read or write
  Terry, Jesse  9 M W GA Can read and write
  
  1880 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 24 June, McDonald (1013th District), Enumeration District 155, page 30B, Hse #263, Fam #272
  Terry, William W M 69 Farming SC SC SC
  Terry, July Ann  W F 58  Wife Keeping House  NC NC NC
  Terry, Jessee B  W M 19 Son Works on Farm GA SC NC
  
  My original information from a Terry genealogy reports that Jesse's wife was Loula Bates.  Their marriage was dated in 1887.

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Richard Bates, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rbbates1302004&id=I05502
• 2. Terry Family
• 3. 1880 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia
  • 24 June, McDonald (1013th District), Enumeration District 155, page 30B, Hse #263, Fam #272
• 4. 1870 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia
  • 23 July, Spring Place, Militia District 1013, page 7, Hse/Fam #49