"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 100, No 12, p 383, Mar. 22, 1926.
Emma Janette Terry, daughter of Charles P. and Marianne (Thorngate) Rood, was born near Dakota, Wis., March 27, 1859, and died in her home in Boulder, Colo., March 5, 1926.
She was one of a family of nine children. When she was fifteen years of age she and her brother Herman and a few others drove a heard of cattle from Dakota, Wis., to North Loup, Neb., a distance of seven hundred miles. Her father and others had located claims in North Loup before this time. This was her home till 1890. By actual experience she knew much of the hardships and privation of pioneer life in both Wisconsin and Nebraska. December 25, 1877, she was married near North Loup to Solon Terry. In 1890 they moved to Boulder, Colo., which was her home the rest of her life. Her husband passed from this life in July 1914.
She was deeply interested in political questions, and was a member of various womens clubs. In 1916 she was baptized by Rev. A. L. Davis, and united with the Boulder, Colo., Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which church she continued a member till death. She leaves one son, Loyal, and two grandchildren of Boulder, Colo., and two brothers and three sisters, Hosea W., of Milton, Wis., Charles of North Loup, Neb., and Etta, wife of Calvin Crandall of Milton, Wis., and Genia, wife of Alpha Crandall, of North Loup, and Mary, whose home is in North Loup, widow of Mansell Davis, and a large number of other relatives. Her funeral service, which was largely attended, was conducted by her pastor, D. Burdett Coon, assisted by the Womans Relief Corps, the Pythian Sisters, and the Daughters of Veterans, organizations of which she was a member. Burial was in Green Mountain Cemetery at Boulder.
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Emma Janette Terry, daughter of Charles P. and Marianne (Thorngate) Rood, was born near Dakota, Wis., March 27, 1859, and died in her home in Boulder, Colo., March 5, 1926.
She was one of a family of nine children. When she was fifteen years of age she and her brother Herman and a few others drove a heard of cattle from Dakota, Wis., to North Loup, Neb., a distance of seven hundred miles. Her father and others had located claims in North Loup before this time. This was her home till 1890. By actual experience she knew much of the hardships and privation of pioneer life in both Wisconsin and Nebraska. December 25, 1877, she was married near North Loup to Solon Terry. In 1890 they moved to Boulder, Colo., which was her home the rest of her life. Her husband passed from this life in July 1914.
She was deeply interested in political questions, and was a member of various womens clubs. In 1916 she was baptized by Rev. A. L. Davis, and united with the Boulder, Colo., Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which church she continued a member till death. She leaves one son, Loyal, and two grandchildren of Boulder, Colo., and two brothers and three sisters, Hosea W., of Milton, Wis., Charles of North Loup, Neb., and Etta, wife of Calvin Crandall of Milton, Wis., and Genia, wife of Alpha Crandall, of North Loup, and Mary, whose home is in North Loup, widow of Mansell Davis, and a large number of other relatives. Her funeral service, which was largely attended, was conducted by her pastor, D. Burdett Coon, assisted by the Womans Relief Corps, the Pythian Sisters, and the Daughters of Veterans, organizations of which she was a member. Burial was in Green Mountain Cemetery at Boulder.
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"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 100, No 12, p 383, Mar. 22, 1926.
Emma Janette Terry, daughter of Charles P. and Marianne (Thorngate) Rood, was born near Dakota, Wis., March 27, 1859, and died in her home in Boulder, Colo., March 5, 1926.
She was one of a family of nine children. When she was fifteen years of age she and her brother Herman and a few others drove a heard of cattle from Dakota, Wis., to North Loup, Neb., a distance of seven hundred miles. Her father and others had located claims in North Loup before this time. This was her home till 1890. By actual experience she knew much of the hardships and privation of pioneer life in both Wisconsin and Nebraska. December 25, 1877, she was married near North Loup to Solon Terry. In 1890 they moved to Boulder, Colo., which was her home the rest of her life. Her husband passed from this life in July 1914.
She was deeply interested in political questions, and was a member of various womens clubs. In 1916 she was baptized by Rev. A. L. Davis, and united with the Boulder, Colo., Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which church she continued a member till death. She leaves one son, Loyal, and two grandchildren of Boulder, Colo., and two brothers and three sisters, Hosea W., of Milton, Wis., Charles of North Loup, Neb., and Etta, wife of Calvin Crandall of Milton, Wis., and Genia, wife of Alpha Crandall, of North Loup, and Mary, whose home is in North Loup, widow of Mansell Davis, and a large number of other relatives. Her funeral service, which was largely attended, was conducted by her pastor, D. Burdett Coon, assisted by the Womans Relief Corps, the Pythian Sisters, and the Daughters of Veterans, organizations of which she was a member. Burial was in Green Mountain Cemetery at Boulder.
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Emma Janette Terry, daughter of Charles P. and Marianne (Thorngate) Rood, was born near Dakota, Wis., March 27, 1859, and died in her home in Boulder, Colo., March 5, 1926.
She was one of a family of nine children. When she was fifteen years of age she and her brother Herman and a few others drove a heard of cattle from Dakota, Wis., to North Loup, Neb., a distance of seven hundred miles. Her father and others had located claims in North Loup before this time. This was her home till 1890. By actual experience she knew much of the hardships and privation of pioneer life in both Wisconsin and Nebraska. December 25, 1877, she was married near North Loup to Solon Terry. In 1890 they moved to Boulder, Colo., which was her home the rest of her life. Her husband passed from this life in July 1914.
She was deeply interested in political questions, and was a member of various womens clubs. In 1916 she was baptized by Rev. A. L. Davis, and united with the Boulder, Colo., Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which church she continued a member till death. She leaves one son, Loyal, and two grandchildren of Boulder, Colo., and two brothers and three sisters, Hosea W., of Milton, Wis., Charles of North Loup, Neb., and Etta, wife of Calvin Crandall of Milton, Wis., and Genia, wife of Alpha Crandall, of North Loup, and Mary, whose home is in North Loup, widow of Mansell Davis, and a large number of other relatives. Her funeral service, which was largely attended, was conducted by her pastor, D. Burdett Coon, assisted by the Womans Relief Corps, the Pythian Sisters, and the Daughters of Veterans, organizations of which she was a member. Burial was in Green Mountain Cemetery at Boulder.
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