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Richardson & Henrietta Terrell Richardson Terrell and his wife,
the former Henrietta Jacobs, built their home in Denison in 1874 at 801
West Gandy Street. To this union six daughters were born,
three of whom survived their parents - Otta Terrell Vanlandingham (1866
- 1945); Anna Maud Terrell Jones (1876 - 1944); and Daisy Terrell
Reddick Swan, (1889 - 1933).
The oldest daughter was born in Missouri. The family were pioneer settlers in Denison, arriving before 1876 when Anna Maude was born. Daisy was married in 1905 to Alexander Leon Reddick.  Daisy and Leon Reddick were
divorced before 1916 at which time Daisy married a Kansas City doctor
named Howard W. Swan in 1916.
Richardson Terrell was obviously very proud of his family history as indicated in the local McKinney, Texas newspaper of August 1907. Edwin M. Terrell is reportedly the man who shot Quantrell; he died in his early 20s and no children have been found of record for him. However, this same Edwin M. Terrell was chronicled in the copy of the Terrell family history which dated back to 1635.  R. Terrell was a clerk for the
Railway Mail Service. He came home from church one Sunday
evening in 1921 to find his wife fully dressed and completely dead on
the kitchen floor. She was supposed to have gone to a
different church that Sunday evening, but she never made it out the
door.
 The death of Mrs. Terrell was
also reported in the Dallas
Morning News a day later.
 Approximately eleven months
later, a granddaughter of Henrietta and Richardson Terrell's was
married in Chicago; the couple moved to Cape Town, Africa
where he husband was to serve as vice consul, appointed by
President Harding.
 Richardson Terrell died at his
home in Denison March 11, 1925. He is most likely buried next
to his wife at Fairview Cemetery.
 Daisy Terrell Reddick Swan died
at the age of 44 in 1933 and is buried alongside her husband at Mt.
Washington Cemetery in Kansas City. Anna Maud Terrell Jones
lived in Greenville but died in February 1944 at the Terrell State
Hospital in Terrell, Texas, where she had been a resident for almost
six years; she was buried in Fairview Cemetery with her parents.
Otta Terrell Vanlandingham, who had lived in Ft. Worth for 33
years, died February 12, 1945, one year to the day after her sister,
Anna Maud; she is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Ft. Worth.
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