Son of Elisha C. & Abigail McDonald Terry. Never married.
James' dates of birth and death are from a family pedigree prepared in 1977 by his nephew and family historian Elisha Rowland Baxley, son of James' older sister Cornelia Ann Terry Baxley.
The usual burying ground for this Terry family in the late 1800s and early 1900s was Bear Branch Cemetery in Roberdell, Richmond County NC. The cemetery was surveyed in c. 1980s but James L. Terry is not on the survey (although names with markers have since been found that didn't make it onto the list); however, if he is there, it is probably a grave that has lost its marker.
The story below is from the papers of Joe McLaurin, Richmond County historian, that were donated to the NC State Archives in Raleigh NC. It describes the burial of a Terry man at Bear Branch Cemetery in 1895-1897. That man was either Gustave B. Terry or his brother James L. Terry. Both died in 1896.
Mr. McLaurin interviewed John Benjamin Smith, Sr. who "remembers when he was young that a Mr. Terry died away from Richmond County. His body came in on the train, and this would have been between about 1895-1897. The remains arrived on the train about 10:00 at night and the people were expecting it. So the remains were put on a horse and wagon and drove to Bear Branch Cemetery, where the family and others were waiting to have the funeral at midnight. All the people at the cemetery were carrying torches, so to be able to see and it was an eerie sight to be in a cemetery with lots of people carrying the torches at midnight. Doesn't know who the man was."
Bio by JTerry ღ, great-granddaughter of Elisha C. Terry
James' dates of birth and death are from a family pedigree prepared in 1977 by his nephew and family historian Elisha Rowland Baxley, son of James' older sister Cornelia Ann Terry Baxley.
The usual burying ground for this Terry family in the late 1800s and early 1900s was Bear Branch Cemetery in Roberdell, Richmond County NC. The cemetery was surveyed in c. 1980s but James L. Terry is not on the survey (although names with markers have since been found that didn't make it onto the list); however, if he is there, it is probably a grave that has lost its marker.
The story below is from the papers of Joe McLaurin, Richmond County historian, that were donated to the NC State Archives in Raleigh NC. It describes the burial of a Terry man at Bear Branch Cemetery in 1895-1897. That man was either Gustave B. Terry or his brother James L. Terry. Both died in 1896.
Mr. McLaurin interviewed John Benjamin Smith, Sr. who "remembers when he was young that a Mr. Terry died away from Richmond County. His body came in on the train, and this would have been between about 1895-1897. The remains arrived on the train about 10:00 at night and the people were expecting it. So the remains were put on a horse and wagon and drove to Bear Branch Cemetery, where the family and others were waiting to have the funeral at midnight. All the people at the cemetery were carrying torches, so to be able to see and it was an eerie sight to be in a cemetery with lots of people carrying the torches at midnight. Doesn't know who the man was."
Bio by JTerry ღ, great-granddaughter of Elisha C. Terry
Son of Elisha C. & Abigail McDonald Terry. Never married.
James' dates of birth and death are from a family pedigree prepared in 1977 by his nephew and family historian Elisha Rowland Baxley, son of James' older sister Cornelia Ann Terry Baxley.
The usual burying ground for this Terry family in the late 1800s and early 1900s was Bear Branch Cemetery in Roberdell, Richmond County NC. The cemetery was surveyed in c. 1980s but James L. Terry is not on the survey (although names with markers have since been found that didn't make it onto the list); however, if he is there, it is probably a grave that has lost its marker.
The story below is from the papers of Joe McLaurin, Richmond County historian, that were donated to the NC State Archives in Raleigh NC. It describes the burial of a Terry man at Bear Branch Cemetery in 1895-1897. That man was either Gustave B. Terry or his brother James L. Terry. Both died in 1896.
Mr. McLaurin interviewed John Benjamin Smith, Sr. who "remembers when he was young that a Mr. Terry died away from Richmond County. His body came in on the train, and this would have been between about 1895-1897. The remains arrived on the train about 10:00 at night and the people were expecting it. So the remains were put on a horse and wagon and drove to Bear Branch Cemetery, where the family and others were waiting to have the funeral at midnight. All the people at the cemetery were carrying torches, so to be able to see and it was an eerie sight to be in a cemetery with lots of people carrying the torches at midnight. Doesn't know who the man was."
Bio by JTerry ღ, great-granddaughter of Elisha C. Terry
James' dates of birth and death are from a family pedigree prepared in 1977 by his nephew and family historian Elisha Rowland Baxley, son of James' older sister Cornelia Ann Terry Baxley.
The usual burying ground for this Terry family in the late 1800s and early 1900s was Bear Branch Cemetery in Roberdell, Richmond County NC. The cemetery was surveyed in c. 1980s but James L. Terry is not on the survey (although names with markers have since been found that didn't make it onto the list); however, if he is there, it is probably a grave that has lost its marker.
The story below is from the papers of Joe McLaurin, Richmond County historian, that were donated to the NC State Archives in Raleigh NC. It describes the burial of a Terry man at Bear Branch Cemetery in 1895-1897. That man was either Gustave B. Terry or his brother James L. Terry. Both died in 1896.
Mr. McLaurin interviewed John Benjamin Smith, Sr. who "remembers when he was young that a Mr. Terry died away from Richmond County. His body came in on the train, and this would have been between about 1895-1897. The remains arrived on the train about 10:00 at night and the people were expecting it. So the remains were put on a horse and wagon and drove to Bear Branch Cemetery, where the family and others were waiting to have the funeral at midnight. All the people at the cemetery were carrying torches, so to be able to see and it was an eerie sight to be in a cemetery with lots of people carrying the torches at midnight. Doesn't know who the man was."
Bio by JTerry ღ, great-granddaughter of Elisha C. Terry
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