Brief Life History of James Robert
When James Robert Terry was born on 9 June 1877, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Carroll Terry, was 32 and his mother, Carolina Angelina Tennessee Gardner Iry, was 20. He married Mary Susan Blake on 31 August 1907, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 12 September 1955, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- James R Terry, "United States Census, 1940"
- J R Terry, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- James Robert Terry, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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