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Tigger - I got your E-mail.
Let me get turned around today as I just got back from a trip to the Huron/Bedford area. I am glad you are pursuing the "Terrell mysteries" again. It has been awhile since I have focused on them, but it is a good time to throw myself into the muck of the Terrell confusion again.
For starters, I STILL am skeptical that all the wives mentioned for William Terrell are all from the same William. I realize it was common for men (and women) to lose their mates through death back then, and some were married several times. But FIVE? Personally, I doubt it. No doubt one of the William's was of Edmund Terrell's family, but I have a hunch that there was another one who was the father of my mother's grandfather Henry. And, "Maggie" or "Margaret" was very common in my line, including one of Henry's sisters. Do we know for SURE that this William Terrell didn't have any children by Maggie? Henry's sister, Margaret Elizabeth, married Miles Henderson Carter - some of their descendants are still living in the Lawrence County area. They also had a younger sister, Rebecca Ann, who married George W. Dorsett. Their children were Solomon, Maggie, and Nancy Jane. George's mother was Nancy Crossman. Rebecca died in November of 1856, and George married again to Susan White; they had twelve children, and I know some of their descendants. I have an obituary of George and Rebecca's grandson, Garfield King; my family knew him well. Also, my Henry (b. 1823) who married Rachel Johnson, were married in April of 1842 on her parent's farm (John and Sarah Barnes Johnson) which was located where the Lawrence County water tower is today on highway 50.
Henry and Rachel soon moved over the county line and lived in Martin County, Halbert Township, in Willow Valley. They were neighbors to Marinda Terrell and Josiah Sutton, and it has been documented that Henry and John Elliott laid out Willow Valley in 1850. I can't help but think that somehow Marinda was a cousin to Henry. By the 1860 census, Henry and Rachel were living back in Lawrence County, just east of Huron in a little community then called "Georgia"; this is where my grandpa Levi was born in 1862. He had a brother, "John William Terrell"; since it was common to name a son the combination of his two grandfather's names, and I know that Rachel's father was "John", I am suspicious that Henry's father was "William". There were no "William's" in Rachel's family. And a brother of John's, Joe Terrell, named one of his son's, "William" and called him "Willie". No "William's" in his wife's family; she was Fannie Mundy.
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