William Barney TERRY Dianna Catherine TERRY George W TERRY William Joseph TERRY Cyrus Lewis TERRY William Barney TERRY John Rowland TERRY Lilly TERRY Joseph Clinton TERRY Diane TERRY Jesse T TERRY C Grady TERRY Nellie TERRY Susan Catherine STEWART Mary Constance TERRY Martha Clorinda TERRY Thomas Duncan TERRY Althea TERRY Arthur TERRY Jesse B TERRY Robert E Lee TERRY Julia Ann ROBERTS Mini tree diagram

John R TERRY1,8,2,5,7,9,10,3

9th Sep 18491,2,3,4,5,6,7 - after 19101

Baptist Minister;  John performed the marriage of his niece Nannie Jane Terry in Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, which became Stephens County, Oklahoma on 16 Nov 1907.  John was reported as the Minister of the Baptist Church in Marlow.

Life History

9th Sep 1849

Born in Murray County, Georgia.1,2,3,4,5,6,7

between 1850 and 1880

Resident in McDonald, Murray, Georgia.8,6,7

19th Oct 1871

Married Susan Catherine STEWART in Chatsworth, Murray, Georgia.2,3,9

22nd Jul 1872

Birth of son William Barney TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.2,8,11

1873

Birth of son John Rowland TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.8

1875

Birth of daughter Lilly TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.8

1878

Birth of son Joseph Clinton TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.8

Sep 1881

Birth of daughter Diane TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.2

Jan 1884

Birth of son Jesse T TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.2

2nd Nov 1887

Birth of son C Grady TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.12

23rd Jun 1889

Death of son C Grady TERRY in Eton, Murray, Georgia.12

Mar 1890

Birth of daughter Nellie TERRY in Murray County, Georgia.2

between 1900 and 1910

Death of Susan Catherine STEWART in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.2

Jun 1900

Residence2 in Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.2

10th Nov 1907

Occupation Baptist Minister;  John performed the marriage of his niece Nannie Jane Terry in Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, which became Stephens County, Oklahoma on 16 Nov 1907.  John was reported as the Minister of the Baptist Church in Marlow. in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma

10th Nov 1907

Resident John performed the marriage of his niece Nannie Jane Terry to John Fincher, in the Terry Home on the farm near Marlow.  John was reported as the Minister of the Baptist Church in Marlow. in Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory

after 1910

Died in New Mexico.1

May 1910

Residence3 in Mountain Air, Torrance, New Mexico.1

7th May 1910

Resident A matching record is found for John R Terry, age 60, born in Georgia, matchign our John R Terry.  He was reported as a widow. in Torrance County, New Mexico,

Notes

  • 1850 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 11 November, Page 257, Hse/Fam #1521
    William Terry  39  M  Farmer  $1175 Real Estate SC [born abt 1811]
    Jula [Julia] A Terry  26 F  NC [born abt 1824]
    John R Terry  10 months  M  GA [born abt 1850]

    I have been unable to find John R Terry in the 1860 census.  He does not appear with his parents and siblings.  But he is there in the 1870 census, and is enumerated in the 1880 census with his wife and children.

    1870 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 23 July, Militia District 1013, 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, John R  20 M W Farm Laborer $125 Personal Estate b Georgia Can read and write

    Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
    John Terry
    Marriage 19 Oct 1871 Murray, Georgia
    Spouse Catharine Stewart

    1880 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 23 June, McDonald, District 155, page 29A (scan 482A), Hse #260, Fam #269
    Terry, John R  W M 32  Farming GA GA NC
    Terry, Catherine  W F 30 Wife Keeping House  GA GA GA
    Terry, Barney  W M 9 Son GA GA GA
    Terry, Rollen  W M 7 Son GA GA GA
    Terry, Lilly  W F 5 Daughter GA GA GA
    Terry, Joseph C  W F 2 Son GA GA GA

    In 1900, we find that John has moved to Marlow, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, where other members of this Terry family moved that same year after the census.

    1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, 22 June, Marlow Town, District 164, page 10B, Hse #106, Fam #108
    Terry, John R  Head W M  Sept 1849 50 Married 27 years GA TN VA Farmer Can read and write Owns
    Terry, Susan C  Wife W F Mar 1853  47 Married 27 years GA VA TN Can read and write
    Terry, William B  Son W M July 1872  27 Single GA GA GA Can read and write
    Terry, Diane  Dau  W F Sept 1881  18 Single GA GA GA Can read and write
    Terry, Jesse T  Son W M Jan 1884 16 Single GA GA GA Can read and write
    Terry, Nellie Dau  W F Mar 1890  10 Single GA GA GA Can read and write

    This census provides us some additional information.  We have here Susan's first name and the month-year of birth for all family members.  We learn here than the Son Barney's first name is William, which means he was named for his grandfather, John's father.  Diane, Jesse T and Nellie show up here as new children since the 1880 census.  Birth dates here differ for some from the dates suggested by the two following genealogies.  I will follow the dates given in this 1900 census, unless I find more definitive sources with different information.

    Note that they have been married the same number of years as the age of William B.  There could be a year's difference in these round numbers, since we do not have the month of their marriage.  But if William Barney is already 27, that means he is about to have another birthday, since the census date is about a month before his birthday.  But this would not be the first time age reports have been rounded up in a census.  We have learned to take census ages with a grain of salt in these frontier areas.   Ages varied widely (wildly at times).

    John was a Baptist preacher.  In February 2018 I found information indicating that John R Terry was stil lin Marlow, Oklahoma in 1925.  On his niece's marriage record in 1925, he is the officiating minister, identified as the Minister of the Baptist Church in Marlow.

    Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
    Nannie Terry, born in Georgia, resident of Marlow, Indian Territory
    Age 21, Birth Date abt 1886
    John Fincher, born in Texas, resident of Marlow, Indian Territory
    Age 22, Birth Date abt 1885
    Application for license filed and license issued in Lawton, Comanche County, Okla Territory 8 November 1907
    Ceremony performed 10 Nov 1907 at Bride's Residence, Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, by John R Terry (uncle of the bride), Minister of the Baptist Church, Marlow, Indian Territory
    Witnesses W E Wall (uncle of the bride)  and J A Jenkins (brother-in-law of the bride)

    By 1910, Susan Catherine has passed away, and John has moved to New Mexico.  We find him living alone, ona farm he owns, in Mountain Air Precinct of Torrance County.

    1910 Federal Census, Torrance County, New Mexico, 7 May, Mountain Air, District 272, page 11A, Hse #266, Fam #273
    Terry, John R Head M W 60 Widowed GA VA NC Farmer Can read and write Owns Farm

    Jody Sexton, in her Short Family Tree on Ancestry.com, provides the names of all of John and Catherine's children and some further details.

    John R Terry, Birth 9 Sep 1849 Murray, Georgia, Death Unknown
    Father William Terry (-), Mother (-)
    Spouse Susan Catherine Stewart (1854-), Married 1871
    Children
    Henry Grady (-)
    Barney (1871-)
    Rowland (1873-)
    John Roland (1874-1957)
    Libby (1875-)  [apparently she read the Lilly as Libby, but the letters are Ls]
    Joseph Clinton (1878-)
    Diana (1883-)
    Jesse T (1884-)
    Nellie (1890-)
    --  Jody Sexton, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/53637/person/-1569431402?pg=32827

    If Henry Grady was the first child, as listed here, then his birth date would have been about a year before Barney's, making the marriage about 1869-70.  That would make Susan Catherine quite young even for that era.  Henry does not show up in the 1880 census, so he must have died young or at birth.

    I would think Rowland and John Roland are the same person.  Jody does not report the sources for these names.  Roland and Rowland are obviously two spellings for the same name.  These would appear to represent the person listed in the 1880 census as Rollen, with approximate birth in the year 1873, matching her birth for Rowland.  Though Rollen is normally pronounced as Rahlen, this could be the enumerator's spelling for the name they gave him as Rolan(d).

    I am concerned about the last name reported here for John's wife.  Jody names her Susan Catherine Stewart.  The Terry Family information from Troy Phillis gives her name as Susan Catherine Newport.  She would only have been about 15-16 when she married John, if the date of her birth was 1854.  And the date of 1871 is uncertain for the marriage, since that is the year also given for the birth of their first child Henry Grady!  Perhaps Stewart was a married name from a second marriage?

    The Childers Family Tree presents information on Susan Catherine identical to that of Jody's.  But they add some additional information or variations, though this genealogy lacks the first child.  Since this child does not show up in the census, perhaps he was stillborn.

    John R Terry
    Birth Sep 1849 Murray, Georgia
    Death, Father William Terry (1811-1890)
    Mother Julia Ann Roberts (1814-)
    Spouse Susan Catherine Stewart (1853-), Married 1871
    Children:
    William Barney (1872-)
    John Roland (1873-)
    Libby (1875-)
    Joseph Clinton (1878-)
    Diana (1883-)
    Jesse T (1884-)
    Nellie (1890-)
    --  Childers, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2914171/person/-1166726698?pg=32827

    I found these two trees near the end of August 2009.  To complicate matters even more, I then found that Eric Williamson reports in his genealogy that Susan Catherine Newport married a John Cowley Terry, who is from a different family (and assuredly different parents) from our John R Terry.  He reports the marriage of Catherine and John Cowley Terry took place in 1870, which matches our family and children's dates.  But he reports she had no children, dying before 1874, when John Cowley remarried.  The family bears no further resemblance to ours.
    --  Eric Williamson, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8281581/person/-970536531

    Could it be, then, that Troy Phillis confused this Susan Catherine Newport with the correct Susan Catherine Stewart?  Information from sources is spotty

Sources

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