My Genealogy Hound

MRS. MARY A. TERRY. Mrs. Mary A. Terry, daughter of the late Judge Stevenson, was born at Prairie du Chien, Oct. 26, 1836. At the age of four years she, with her father, four sisters and three brothers, came to Jasper county, settling near the old town of Sarcoxie, in about the year 1841. About the year 1855 Judge Stevenson moved to the farm where Mrs. Terry now lives, and her father died August 20, 1883; her mother likewise Jan. 14, 1881. July 5, 1859, she was married to Jessie K. Terry, a native of Tennessee, who was born May 28, 1834. Mr. Terry was shot on his farm by the northern militia, but we are not able to state the extenuating circumstances further than Mr. Terry sympathized with the “lost cause,” and was killed by mistake or failing to show truce. The names of the children are Elizabeth F. and Wilton C. Terry. Mrs. Terry and her mother together with her other sisters, stayed by the old farm long after their father and Federal sympathizers were compelled to flee the country, and in 1864 they also followed to Ft. Scott, Kas. They were subjected to many hardships, dangers, and indignities from both armies, but they proved equal to all emergencies and deceptions. The old farm comprises 262 acres, about 100 under cultivation. There is an orchard on the farm which has been in bearing for many years. Mrs. Terry, her son and her maiden sister, live on the farm, where they returned after the war, to find the stock driven off and the buildings burned. Too much cannot be said in praise of the brave souls who have, in the face of war, been courageous as heroes and gentle as womanly sensibility can be; and now as they cast a retrospective glance back over the past, and contemplate the present, they have much of which to be proud.