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.
Biography
Index
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