MARGIE MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER WROTE THIS IN 1918 TO HER DAUGHTER. "SO YOU ARE WANTING TO LOOK UP THE FAMILY TREE. I AM AFRAID YOU ARE DOOMED TO DISSAPPOINTMENT FOR IT IS SO LITTLE THAT I KNOW. THERE WERE THREE TERRY BRO.THAT CAN OVER ON THE MAYFLOWER. TWO MARRIED AND ONE DID NOT, ONE CAME IN TOVIRGINIA OR HIS SONS DID AND FROM THOSE MY FATHER CAME FROM. MY FATHERS NAME WAS JOHN PAYTON TERRY. HE WAS BORN OCT 18 NEAR WINSBORO, SOUTH CAROLINA:CAME TO NORTH ALA .WHEN AN INFANT. HIS FATHER WAS NAMED GEORGE TERRY. HE WAS BORNED IN VIRGINIA. HIS FATHER AND MOTHER MOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN HE WAS AN INFANT. HIS FATHER (MY GREAT GRANDFATHER) WENT BACK TO VIRGINIA TO COLLECT SOME MONEY. HIS WIFE (MY GREAT-GRADMOTHER) NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN . HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY ROBBERS. HIS WIFE AFTER MARRIED A MAN NAMED COUCH. DON’T KNOW WHAT BECAME OF THEM. OF THE TERRYFAMILY THERE WAS A COUSIN WHO WAS RATHER FAMOUS FOR DARING FEATS OF STRENGTH HENCE WAS CALLED DEVIL JOE TERRY. WHERE EVER DID WE FIND A TERRY THAT HIKES BACK TO HIM AS A KINSMAN.? THERE ARE MY KINFOLK.ONCE MY FATHER MET ONE IN SHREVEPORT AND MY BROTHERCORRESPONDED WITH ONE IN UTAH(GUESS HE WAS MORMON) NOW I DON’T REMEMBER EVER HEARING MY GREAT GRANDFATHERS GIVEN NAME. NOR WHO HIS WIFE WAS. IN THOSE DAYS PEOPLE DIDNOT KEEP UP WITH KINFOLKS MUCH. MY GRANDFATHER GEORGE TERRY HAD NO OWN BROTHERS OR SISTERS. ONLY HALF BROS.BY NAME OF COUCH. I BELIEVE THIS IS ALL I CAN TELL YOU OF THE TERRY FAMILY. THERE MAY BE SOME PAPERS AMONG MY COUSINS IN NORTH ALA. AT HUNTSVILLE AND NEW HOPE , ALL IN MADISON CO. THAT WILL TELL MORE ABOUT THEM. GRANDPA WAS ABOUT 80 WHEN HE DIED. MY MOTHERS PEOPLE ALL CAME FROM ROCKBRIDGE CO VA. HER FATHER WAS IN THE WAR OF 1812. AND FOR HIS SERVICES HE WAS GRANTED PIECES OF LAND IN NORTH ALA. HE WITH HIS FAMILY AND HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND ONE SISTER MOVED THERE TO ALA. ABOUT 1818. GRANDFATHER WAS NAMED WILLIAM CAMPBELL. HE WAS THE ELDEST OFSEVEN OR NINE BRO AND SOME SISTERS.DIED NEAR 80 YEARS OLD. THE BROTHERS WENT TO EVERY STATE IN UNION. MISSOURI AND IL. ANYHOW, SOME STAYED IN VIRGINIA. THEIR BOYS WERE IN OUR CIVIL WAR. GRANDMOTHER CAMPBELL (MY MOTHER’ S MOTHER) WAS ELIZABETH CASH. HER FATHER WAS TOM CASH WAS LIVING WHEN OUR CIVIL WAS COMMENCED IN 1861 OR 1861 . WAS 103 YEARS OLD. HIS WIFE WAS JINNIE CAMRON FORM IRELAND . THE WHOLE LOT, CAMPBELLS AND ALL WERE IRISH AND SCOTCH IRISH. TERRY WERE ENGLISH, I GUESS THO I DID READ ONCE THAT TERRY WAS AFRENCH NAME SPELT "RI" INSTEAD OF RY , I FORGOT TO SAY GRANDMOTHER TERRY WAS ELIZABETH STROUD." DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GEORGE TERRY?