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John W. Terry

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John W. Terry

Birth
Death
Jul 1925 (aged 66)
Burial
Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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SHELBYVILLE NEWSPAPER 7/1925

JOHN W. TERRY, 67, RETIRED MEAT MARKET MAN AND CATTLE BUYER, PASED AWAY AT 130 OCLOCK TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT HIS HOME 2112 CHARLESTON AVE IN MATTOON, FOLLOWING A WEEKS SERIOUS ILLNESS OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. HE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS.
THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 230 OCLOCK ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, REV. J. C. MULLINS, A FORMER PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THAT CITY, BUT NOW OF NIANTIC OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN DODGE GROVE CEMETERY.
MR. TERRY WAS BORN IN OKAW TOWNSHIP,SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ON AUGUST 4, 1858, A SON OF MR. AND MRS. REUBEN TERRY, AND WAS REARED THERE. ON DECEMBER 2, 1881 HE MARRIED MISS DRUCILLA CRAWFORD IN HER HOME IN SHELBYVILLE, A DAUGHER, MRS. VIVIAN KILMAN OF ST LOUIS AND THE WIFE AND MOTHER SURVIVE.
THERE ALSO SURVIVE THREE SISTERS, MRS. MARY HENDRICKS OF SHELYVILLE, MRS. ELLA PRICE OF FINDLAY AND MRS. SUSIE WORTHAM OF LIMO,OHIO AND A GRANDSON HOWARD KILMAN OF ST. LOUIS.
MR. AND MRS. TERRY LIVED IN SHELBYVILLE UNTIL 1892 WHEN THEY MOVED TO MATTOON AND MR. TERRY ESTABLISHED A MEAT MARKET WHICH HE SOLD ABOUT TWELVE YEARS AGO TO T. J. OVERMAN.
MR. TERRY WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THEKNIGHT OF PYTHIAS LODGE IN SHELBYVILLE AND ON MOVING TO MATTOON BECAME A MEMBER OF PALESTINE LODGE OF THAT ORDER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
SHELBYVILLE NEWSPAPER 7/1925

JOHN W. TERRY, 67, RETIRED MEAT MARKET MAN AND CATTLE BUYER, PASED AWAY AT 130 OCLOCK TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT HIS HOME 2112 CHARLESTON AVE IN MATTOON, FOLLOWING A WEEKS SERIOUS ILLNESS OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. HE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS.
THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 230 OCLOCK ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, REV. J. C. MULLINS, A FORMER PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THAT CITY, BUT NOW OF NIANTIC OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN DODGE GROVE CEMETERY.
MR. TERRY WAS BORN IN OKAW TOWNSHIP,SHELBY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ON AUGUST 4, 1858, A SON OF MR. AND MRS. REUBEN TERRY, AND WAS REARED THERE. ON DECEMBER 2, 1881 HE MARRIED MISS DRUCILLA CRAWFORD IN HER HOME IN SHELBYVILLE, A DAUGHER, MRS. VIVIAN KILMAN OF ST LOUIS AND THE WIFE AND MOTHER SURVIVE.
THERE ALSO SURVIVE THREE SISTERS, MRS. MARY HENDRICKS OF SHELYVILLE, MRS. ELLA PRICE OF FINDLAY AND MRS. SUSIE WORTHAM OF LIMO,OHIO AND A GRANDSON HOWARD KILMAN OF ST. LOUIS.
MR. AND MRS. TERRY LIVED IN SHELBYVILLE UNTIL 1892 WHEN THEY MOVED TO MATTOON AND MR. TERRY ESTABLISHED A MEAT MARKET WHICH HE SOLD ABOUT TWELVE YEARS AGO TO T. J. OVERMAN.
MR. TERRY WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THEKNIGHT OF PYTHIAS LODGE IN SHELBYVILLE AND ON MOVING TO MATTOON BECAME A MEMBER OF PALESTINE LODGE OF THAT ORDER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.


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