From a letter dated 7 April 1852 from William Terry (1785-1869) of Madison County, Arkansas to his son John Terry (1818-1898) in Red River County, Texas comes the statement that William had heard "we had a letter from brother Josiah in Tennessee...".
Josiah TERRY is believed to be the eldest son of John Terry and Esther Brown Terry. He would have been born about 1782 (based on the 2 February 1781 marriage of his parents in Botetourt Co., Va). His parents, along with other relatives and friends, are believed to have begun migrating out of Virginia between 1795 and 1800. Two sisters of his father John had already left the area, it is believed, and were moving into the areas of Northeast Tennessee accessed via the Cumberland Gap (an area known as the Territory South of the Ohio River that fluctuated between claimants to domain under such labels as Anderson County, Tennessee, the State of Franklin, and the Hawkins County of Tennessee.
Based on birthdates of children, Josiah married his first wife Nancy THOMAS in about 1805 in Anderson County, Tennessee. His father was also living in that area as court records of Botetourt Co., Virginia attest when he gave his brother-in-law Thomas Brown (wife Susannah Terry Brown) his power of attorney to sell his 1/8 share of his father's land in Botetourt County. William TERRY (c1724) probably October-November of 1792 as a December document in the courts notes him as deceased. His wife Rachel MANSON TERRY died sometime in 1803 as legal proceedings occur in 1804 indicating the estate was being settled through various means to divide the property up between his eight children.
Josiah and Nancy Thomas TERRY had two children.
1) Joseph, b. March 7, 1806, Tennessee and died Sept 17, 1863. He married Oct 11, 1832 Minerva STEPHENSON (1811-1894). They, in turn, had six children: Joseph, John, Jim, Edna, Jane, Louise.
2) William, b. October 20, 1808 and died 20 Nov 1881, Randolph Co., Missouri. He married Ithema Payton Dec. 24, 1831. They had children: Josiah, William Y., Nancy J., Mildred A. and Bailey Payton Terry (who went to Dewitt Co., Texas and had a son Bailey Payton Terry Jr. who died tragically after mere months of marriage in Gonzalez, Tx)
Josiah next married Nancy STEVENS had several children:
1) Martin b.1820 md Nancy Thompson and then Sarah Davis
2) Rachel b. 1821 d. 1890 md. Richard Smith. had 17 children.
3)James Terry b. 1823 md Tilda or Matilda "Polly" Smith and had 8 children.
4) Alsey (or Alcie or Sarah Alsey) was born about 1827, Scott Co., TN and md Jonathan Phillips in 1847 and had five children. Her death date is unknown - as is her grave location - but she had to have died before 1859 when Phillips remarried Jane Chitwood and added several more children to his line.
5) Edmund b. 1830 md Bettie Hicks and had 4-5 daughters and three sons (Wm, Milton, James)
6) Milton, b 1834 d. 1904 and married Jane Thomas
7) Nancy b. 1836 d? md Ely or Eli Roysden (several will marry into this same family)
9. Ithema (Themie) b 1838 md Jessie Roysden (and both their names will be terribly mangled in various census records!)
10. Malinda (or Mylinda) b 1839 d 1909 and md Jackson Smith. Josiah Terry, her father, is said to have been visiting them in Wayne Co., KY when he died. That land was said to be the location of part of the current Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Also, to note that his brother William will make a similar trip to visit a daughter and her family in Greene Co., Missouri from Barry Co., Mo and die there and be buried. Odd coincidence.
11) Josiah Jr. b 1842 and d. 1911 md Johanna Roysden (1839-1925) and had 9 children.
The source for most of this the work of George A. Terry, a descendant of this group who put together a history in The Terry's of Scott Co.,Tn in 1984 which appeared in an issue of the Terry Family Historian.
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