Lewis Sherman TERRY
Ancestral File - Version 4.19
1880 CENSUS Mo listed as unmarried
1882 /baaptised into Church of Christ, Scotland Church
1883 MARRIAGE CERT: gives date and place, married by Josh Scott and witnesses
Mollin and Saul Lander or Landes. License application #358 pg 384 Book F Gives father DN Terry and age 18. Washington twp now Jameson, mentioned in father's will.
1885 Harlan, Nebraska and then Hayes
1887 return to MO because of prarie fies & grasshoppers
1898 moved to Palisade NE
1900 Census In Nebraska
1908 Chase Co NE Census 1910 & 1920 with wife
1932 DEATH: obituary gives birth, parents, marriage date and wife name, birth,
parents. Death certificate gives birth 1861, wife Hariett Elliott, parents and
states of birth, and that he died of prostate cancer
1200 attended his funeral, 215 car in procession, and at the grave 70 robed Klansmen had charge of ritualistic work
HISTORY:Second preacher for Scotland Church of Christ, a member of the Klan.
Nebraska life was full of crop failures, dust storms and drouth.
1862 BIRTH:as stated by 2nd wife- other source states Monroe Co KY
1883 MARRIAGE AND BIRTH: copy of marrriage license #358 Book F age 19
1942 DEATH: certificate #4208 Gives birth as 14th and died of flu complications.
gives maiden and married name and states she is widowed, gives birth place, and
mother Sarah
(Research):death cert. says incorrectly, born Petersburg,Illinois
ss#519-07-0234
1883 BIRTH: place listed in fathers Bible as Jameson and crossed out to read
Gallatin. Special birth cert copy was made by uncle Samuel Curtis in 1942
Sandra Terry has copy.
BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE: listed in History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
BIRTH-CHILDREN: listed in Edwards family Bible by Bessie
1906 MARRIAGE: cert gives ages, places of birth and parents names and consent to
marry bride of 15. Md at brides home, Lewis Terry minister.
HISTORY:1899 raised in Nebraska
1910 with wife and children to Kansas, they run into hard times
1913 returning to Nebraska to at least
1925 when he leaves with his family and settles in Caldwell Idaho. He hired out as a carpenter, & itinerate farm worker most of his life but he loved mostly to hunt and fish.
(Research):Funeral program lists birth and death and places,
BIRTH: in fathers Bible with given names reversed.
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: History of Hitchcock co NE 1988/89
BIRTH: listed in family Bible
More Info in Terry Book
A preacher
BIRTH-DEATH: listed in fathers Bible, and Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible and names looks like Haris
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
Buried in Old Soldiers cemetery lot Q grave # 1333
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: listed birth as 2 Mar History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
More info in Terry book
a preacher
BIRTH-DEATH: listed in family Bible of father in Hays Co NE
also in History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible
BIRTH-MARRIAGES-DEATH: History of Hitchcock Co NE 1988/89
Other info in Terry Book
BIRTH: listed in fathers Bible as Nov 22, yr and place correct.
He married Harriette Elizabeth Curtis 1 Apr 1883 at Jameson, Daviess, Missouri . Harriette Elizabeth Curtis was born at Monroe, Kentucky 15 Aug 1863 daughter of James Howard Curtis and Sara Elisabeth Robinson .
They were the parents of 11
children:
Ora Nelson Terry
born 24 Dec 1883.
Edna Maium Terry
born 22 Jul 1885.
Minnie Ethel Terry
born 12 Dec 1886.
Paul Harlan Terry
born 17 Jul 1890.
Mark Twain Terry
born 19 Jan 1893.
Alice Pearl Terry
born 6 Mar 1895.
Harvey Edgar Terry
born 17 Feb 1897.
Jesse Wall Terry
born 2 Mar 1900.
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Lewis Sherman Terry died 14 Apr 1932 at Wauneta, Chase, Nebraska .
Harriette Elizabeth Curtis died 10 May 1942 at Wauneta, Chase, Nebraska .