This will take several posts. Source: Portrait and biographical album of Washington County, Iowa containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizees of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governers of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States. Chicago: Acme Pub. Co., 1887, 680 pages. pp. 169-171. "J. L. L. Terry, Justice of the Peace, at Washington, is a pioneer among the pioneers of Washington County. He is a native of Kentucky, born in Hopkinsville, March 19, 1817. He comes of good old Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Stephen Terry, being a soldier in that war, and was supposed to be mortally wounded at the battle of Brandywine, Aug. 11, 1777, being then in his twentieth year, but lived until his sixty-fourth year. He was born in Louisa County Va., where the father of our subject was born. Stephen Terry and Mildred Bagby were married and had twelve children, eight of whom lived to be adults. Among the number was James Terry, the father of our subject, who was born in 1790, in Louisa County, Va. The family moved to Kentucky about 1809, where James Terry married CATHERINE GORIN, a native of Warren County, that State, born in 1797. They were the parents of three children, two of whom are living - J. L. L. and Napoleon B., now living in Hart County, Ky. "James Terry for some years was in the hotel business in Hopkinsville, Ky., while at the same time he purchased and shipped horses for the Virginia trade. In the general financial ruin that followed the breaking of forty-two independent banks in Kentucky in 1818, he was broken up, and moved South to try and mend his broken fortunes, going down the Cumberland to the Ohio, and thence to the Mississippi River on a flatboat, stoping at Natchez about two months. While there J. L. L. ran away from the hotel, going to the river, and was washed into it by the waves, from which he was rescued by a Choctaw woman. Whether the world was ever the better by her act, Mr. Terry says he has never been able to decide, though his wife says it was, and he is willing to leave the question to her better judgment. NOTE by Sandi: There was a devastating bank failure in KY in 1818 and many citizens went bankrupt. I have a copy of a mortgage from James Terry to his brother-in-law, JOHN DARNS GORIN, where he mortgaged everything he possessed to John D. It appears that it was at this time James Terry started the trans- portation of horses south. It appears that his father-in-law, HENRY GORIN raised and bred exceptionally outstanding horses at the same time for Henry made a comment later on that he gave up the horse business since the war efforts kept taking his horses. It had been thought for many years that James Terry possibly had become depressed and taken his own life due to his financial ruin, but the following will explain what happened to him. "From Natchez the family proceeded up the Red River in Louisiana, as far as Natchitoches, but returned and located at Alexandria, La., where the father [James Terry] died, in July 1819, leaving a widow almost penniless, and among strangers, herself and two small children being sick. Her father [Henry Gorin] sent her means to return home by water, but the yellow fever being on the river at that time, she declined to go that way. Her father then sent a friend with a wagon 500 miles through the Indian Territory for her, with whom she started home, but within ten days thereafter the man died in the wagon, leaving her among the Indians, who were kind enough to bury the man and then to lead the team to a trading station called Collins' Station, where there were seven white families. Here she remained until further arrangements were made for her to get home. NOTE: There is no time-frame shown as to how long these events took. She would have had to send a message to her father, taken by boat or horseback from Alexandria LA back to Christian Co KY. Henry would have had to make arrangements for the first man to ride horseback 500 miles down to get her and provide him rather a large sum of money for his efforts. Then there is another time-gap while this unknown man, Catherine and the two very young children set out for Kentucky and the man's death. Another long time would have occured then while she tried to get another message back to Christian Co KY and Henry to try the next rescue attempt. According to family records, when she finally made it back to KY, she had changed tremendously. She had been an outgoing, cheer- ful and beautiful young lady with a beautiful singing voice, and, upon her return was for the rest of her life quite subdued and never sang willingly again. "James Terry was a brickmason by trade, a very powerful man physically, being six feet seven inches in height, and large in proportion. He would never drink intoxicating liquors. On arriving at her father's house, Mrs. Terry, with an infant child, made that her home, while the subject of this sketch was taken by his grandmother Terry, with whom he remained until nearly ten years old. NOTE: Catherine was in such poor health due to all this, it was felt that she could not care for both of her children. Her father and mother had a large family and it appears they could not take care of one more child. Thus, the Terry family stepped in and raised J. L. L. Terry for the first years of his life. James Terry, the father, was exceptionally tall, even by today's standards, and many of the Gorin line are quite short. "In 1827 his mother married Nathaniel D. Terry, a third cousin of her forrmer husband, by whom she had one child, Rev. Nathaniel G., now a prominent Baptist minister in Kentucky. Mrs. Terry was a woman of great intellectual ability, and a member of the Baptist Church. She died in 1841." NOTE: Nathaniel Gorin Terry was pastor of many Baptist churches in south central Kentucky and a favorite of mine. He pastored, on four occasions, the church to which I belong, Glasgow Baptist and was a beloved father, husband and minister. He kept trying to retire but was called on constantly to step in for various churches in Glasgow, Cave City and elsewhere. He kept his promise to a young couple to marry them, finished the ceremony and died the same day. To be continued. Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin