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Jefferson Joseph Terry (b. 01 Jan 1847, d. 16 Jun 1935)
Jefferson Joseph Terry (son of Henderson Terry and Mary Kitchen) was born 01 Jan 1847 in Macon Co., MO, and died 16 Jun 1935 in Hugo, Choctaw, OK. He married (1) Adelia C. Pruitt. He married (2) Phoebe McKeever on 1877 in Redwood, MS. He married (3) Dora Pirtle Payton on 21 Feb 1890 in Indian Territory, OK. He married (4) Sarah Josephine "Josie" Gardner on 17 Oct 1898 in Goodland, Indian Terr. OK, daughter of James Gardner and Agnes Bohanan.
Notes for Jefferson Joseph Terry:
Jefferson Joseph Terry left home in 1863 at the young age of 16 to join his brother, Joseph Sterling Terry in the Confederate Army, as a bugle boy, saying he was 18 years old. He was signed up and placed in Company "B", Perkins Battalion Infantry Regiment C.L.A. someplace in Missouri. The state was divided, part were for the North and part were for the South. When the war ended he was in Mississippi and there he married Phoebe Nolan, a widow, her husband having been killed in the first part of the war. Phoebe and her daughter, Ada Nolan lived in Redwood, MS. There she and Jefferson's first child, Robert Bea Terry was born, then a daughter, Maud Moore Terry was born. Phoebe died in 188l. Jefferson left Redwood, MS soon after her death to arrange with his parents to care for the children. He returned about three years later and took Bea and Maud to his parents in Moberly, Randolph Co., Missouri. Ada Nolan remained in Redwood, Mississippi. Bea and Maud Terry stayed in Missouri with their grandparents and Jefferson left for Indian Territory, OK. The children remained in Missouri until 1890 when Jefferson returned and took them to Indian Territory, OK. Jefferson had remarried to Dora Payton, a widow with 5 children, 4 of whom died of diphtheria. Dora ran a rooming house and Jefferson had a livery stable. From this union Beulah and Joe were born in 1892 and 1894. Dora died soon after Joe's birth. About 1898 he married Josephine Gardner, part Choctaw Indian, from Oklahoma. Their children were Arthur, Louis, Agnes and Myrtle Lee Marie Terry. Joseph Jefferson Terry became a U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory, OK, where he also owned and operated a livery stable. All his children grew up in a community some two miles north of what is now Hugo, OK.
Jefferson Joseph Terry served in the Confederate Army, it was also rumored that he rode with Quantrill of MIssouri. He was a school teacher as a young man, owned a boarding house and liverly stable, was a U. S. Marshal and a farmer. He worked with his son-in-law Samuel Bailey Spring to survey and sell lots in Hugo. All of his children had much love and respect for him, and affectionally addressed him as PaPa or "Mr. Terry"
More About Jefferson Joseph Terry:
Burial Place: Hugo, Choctaw Co., OK.
Occupation: U. S. Marshal and Livery Stable Owner.
Tribal Roll Number: Choctaw #IW892.
More About Jefferson Joseph Terry and Phoebe McKeever:
Marriage: 1877, Redwood, MS.
More About Jefferson Joseph Terry and Dora Pirtle Payton:
Marriage: 21 Feb 1890, Indian Territory, OK.
More About Jefferson Joseph Terry and Sarah Josephine "Josie" Gardner:
Divorce: 1912, Hugo, OK.
Marriage: 17 Oct 1898, Goodland, Indian Terr. OK.
Children of Jefferson Joseph Terry and Adelia C. Pruitt are:
- No children, d. date unknown.
Children of Jefferson Joseph Terry and Phoebe McKeever are:
- +Robert Bea Terry, b. 18 Oct 1877, Possibly Mississippi, d. 17 Apr 1898, Goodland, Kiamitia Co., IT.
- +Maude Moore Terry, b. 26 Feb 1879, Hugo, OK, d. 05 Jun 1964, Phoenix, AZ.
Children of Jefferson Joseph Terry and Dora Pirtle Payton are:
- +Beulah "Ruth" Terry, b. 18 Mar 1892, Hugo, OK, d. 09 Apr 1989, Hugo, OK.
- Joseph "Joe" Terry, b. 27 Apr 1895, Kiamita Co., I. T., d. 19 Sep 1947, Phonix, AZ.
Children of Jefferson Joseph Terry and Sarah Josephine "Josie" Gardner are:
- James Auther Terry, b. 04 Feb 1900, Hugo, Choctaw, OK, d. date unknown, Hugo, OK.
- +Louis Victor Terry, b. 08 Aug 1902, Hugo, Choctaw, OK, d. 11 Dec 1996, Hugo, Ok.
- +Agnes L. Terry, b. 24 Aug 1904, Hugo,Choctaw, OK, d. 15 Nov 2000, Denver, CO.
- +Myrtle Lee Marie Terry, b. 06 Jun 1906, Hugo, Choctaw Co., OK, d. 17 Jul 1971, Little Rock, AR.

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