Corbett Terry was a coal miner, laborer, grocery store owner, and eventually became disabled due to black lung disease. He was a loving but strict father who wished deeply for his children to have a better life than he had. Corbett loved to raise a good garden and kept several hives of bees for many years. He raised nearly everything his family ate for most of his life. He loved to relax by going to his bee hives on a hill across the road from his house where he would sit, smoking a pipe and watching his bees. Corbett also loved to hunt and fish, especially coon hunting with his best friend, Buck Stumbo. Corbett lived most of his life in Knott County and Floyd County in Eastern KY and was well known in the area around Wayland and Right Beaver Creek.
Corbett Terry was a coal miner, laborer, grocery store owner, and eventually became disabled due to black lung disease. He was a loving but strict father who wished deeply for his children to have a better life than he had. Corbett loved to raise a good garden and kept several hives of bees for many years. He raised nearly everything his family ate for most of his life. He loved to relax by going to his bee hives on a hill across the road from his house where he would sit, smoking a pipe and watching his bees. Corbett also loved to hunt and fish, especially coon hunting with his best friend, Buck Stumbo. Corbett lived most of his life in Knott County and Floyd County in Eastern KY and was well known in the area around Wayland and Right Beaver Creek.
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