My Genealogy Hound

ELIAS TERRY was born in Botecourt County, Va., September 15, 1807, the twelfth of fourteen children of John and Esther (Brown) Terry. When our subject was a boy, his parents moved on pack horses to Indiana about 1815. At that time the woods were full of wild animals, and occasionally Indians were seen. Elias rode on the horse in front of his mother during the trip, which consumed several weeks. He was reared on the farm, and at the age of twenty years married Eleanor Sandage, who bore him ten children, five now living, as follows: Esther (wife of Harvey Barger), Cynthia A. (now Mrs. William Bray), Matilda (widow of Benjamin Marshall), Francis M. (who married Nancy Sands), and Judge E. (who married Jane Walters). March 12, 1850, Mrs. Terry died, and soon afterward he married Martha Sandage, who bore him three children, all now deceased. She likewise died, and in 1863 he married Margaret A. Tull, who bore him one child— Virginia, now Mrs. Humphrey. This wife also died, and in 1865 he married Mary E. Bradshaw, who has presented her husband with four children: Mary E., Emily J., Leora and Herman. Mr. Terry owns 180 acres of land. He is a Republican, and in earlier years killed six deer in one day.