Notes for: T. J. Terry

T. J. TERRY, farmer, P. O. Marseilles, was born July 16,1829, in Virginia.
He is a son of Champness and Anna (Thompson) Terry, the former of Irish and
English lineage. Our subject was brought up to the occupation of a farmer,
which he has followed through life, and is now the owner of eighty acres of
land in Goshen Township, on Section 24. On February 14,1858, our subject was
united in marriage with Elizabeth Simpson, a native of Ohio, born in April,
1835. This union has resulted in six children, viz., Rhoda, Ann, Scott,
John, Jane and an infant, deceased. Mrs. Terry died in 1875. Mr. Terry
formed a second union with Mrs Amelia Jane Bodine, a widow and a daughter of
Jacob Brown. Her father was of German and her mother of English lineage. By
this union there has been one child Grace, born September 21, 1876.