Life History

Notes

• Some genealogies report that Leonard Terry's father was Miles B Terry, nicknamed Devl Jett.  Jett is a family name on the maternal side.
  
  Millennium File
  Miles Terry
  Father Dallas Edgar Hensley [Terry researchers point out this is is an error in the compilation]
  Mother Unknown
  Wife Hannah Horton
  Marriage 30 Jan 1782 BOTETOURT, VA
  Children Rachael Terry
  
  Family Data Collection - Births
  Miles B Terry
  Father William Terry
  Mother Rachel Manson
  Birth 1750 VA USA
  
  The above collection reports Miles was born in 1750, but reports his mother as Rachel Manson.  Records indicate his father did not marry Rachel Manson until 1759.  Other sources report a first wife, a Cheraw native woman named Cheepoake Harris.  The people's name was written as Seraw or Saura in early Virginia and North Carolina records.  Cheepoake died in 1758, which would match with a remarriage by William in 1759.
  
  "A full blooded Cheraw Indian. Cheraw often written as Saraw or Saura in early VA & NC records. The Cheraw Indians ceasd to exist as a tribe around 1730 and were absorbed into the related Catawba and Cherokee Tribes, but most seem to have become the mixed-blood "Lumbee" of Robeson County Indians. Cheraw Cheepoake was the first wife of fur tader William Terry of Botetourt County, Virginia. Only two of their children (Esther Terry and Miles "Devil Jett" Terry) had offspring. Cheepoake died when Miles was a baby, and William remarried."
  --  Cheepoake "Cheraw-Cherokee" Harris Terry, Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Cheepoake-Cheraw-Cherokee-Harris-Terry/6000000045614461881?through=6000000014630414171
  
  The above source provides a profile of Cheepoake Harris Terry.
  
  Cheepoake Cheepoake Terry (Harris)
  Gender Female
  Birth 1710 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
  Death 1758 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
  Wife of William "Trapper" Terry
  Children: Stephen Terry; Esther Burris; William Terry, Jr; Isabel Burris; Mary Terry and 2 others
  Added by Kent on March 12, 2009
  Managed by Teresa Lynn Skaggs, Kent, Gaye Jeanes and Bob Wood
  --  Cheepoake "Cheraw-Cherokee" Harris Terry, Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Cheepoake-Cheraw-Cherokee-Harris-Terry/6000000045614461881?through=6000000014630414171
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Miles Terry
  Spouse Hannah Horton
  (This compilation has no marrige date)
  
  "I linked to your family history page in a websearch via MyHeritage.  I was looking for general information about my great-grandmother's family and I see you have Devil Jett  or Miles Terry listed and then his son Thomas Miles Terry 1787-1852. I also saw you or your page mentioned Floyd County [Kentucky].  I ... sort of think he was the man who started a new family and left my great-gm Martha Patsy Jane Terry.  ... I do not know a great deal about Devil Jett other than I find his name mysterious.  I am further descended through the Jett family and see no connection in the way back between the Terry and the Jett family of the area."
  --  Gwendolyn Andrews, Geneanet Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 11 January 2019
  
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  I am the great-granddaughter of Mary Jane Terry Jett 1877-1897. Her  family goes back to parents Miles and Luraney Johnson Terry, grandparents Isaac and Barbara Gabbard Terry, and then great-grandparents Thomas Miles Terry 1797-1852 who was married to Martha Jane or Patsy Johnson in Breathitt County.  This Thomas Miles was child of Miles B. or Devil Jet and Hannah Horton. Siblings were Rachel, Annie, Leonard, and Susanna Elizabeth.
  
  It is the story that this Thomas Miles left Patsy and children and took off and remarried and had a different family up in Floyd County.  I was just trying to be sure I had right person.  I was also wondering about the name Devil Jett as I am a Jett but not sure why or what Devil Jett means.   No insult but my Grandmother said we were not that old bad Curt Jett's bunch and I know she meant the feuding and killing Curtis Jett. I do not think he was related (well, not any more closely than us) to Devil Jet.
  --  Gwendolyn Andrews, Geneanet Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 19 January 2019
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  Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965
  Thomas Terry
  "a farmer and married man"
  Birth Date abt 1802
  Death Age 50
  Death Nov 1852 Carter County, Kentucky, USA
  Cause of Death flux
  Father Miles Terry (no mother named)
  Recorded 24 March 1853 Carter County Death Records, p 3

Sources

• 1. Family Data Collection - Births
• 2. Millennium Files, Ancestry.com
• 3. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• 4. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965
• 5. Geneanet Messaging
• 6. Ancestry Trees
• 7. 1850 Federal Census, Floyd County, Kentucky
  • 10 August, My District, page 863, Hse/Fam #302
• 8. Legacy NFS Government record
• 9. West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999
• 10. 1850 Federal Census, Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 23 August, District 1, page 32-33, Hse/Fam #244