A Sketch of Kelland Terry's Life and the History of His

A SKETCH OF KELLAND TERRY’S LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF HIS ANCESTORS. i TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR: KELLAND DAVID TERRY ....................................................................................... 1 Copyright September 17, 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ................................................. 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 CHAPTER 2: ENGLISH EMIGRANTS IN THE 1630S ............................................................. 3 CHAPTER 3: TERRYS IN LONG ISLAND NEW YORK ........................................................ 7 CHAPTER 4: TERRYS IN WYOMING VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA ................................. 11 CHAPTER 5: MOTHER SCALPED IN THE WYOMING VALLEY MASSACRE ................ 16 CHAPTER 6: PARSHALL TERRY II GOES TO CANADA .................................................... 22 CHAPTER 7: PARSHALL TERRY III AND HANNAH TERRY ........................................... 27 CHAPTER 8: FAR WEST, MISSOURI DISASTER ................................................................. 35 CHAPTER 9: LIFE AND DEATH IN ILLINOIS ...................................................................... 43 CHAPTER 10: FROM WELCOME MAT TO FORCED EXPULSION ................................... 48 CHAPTER 11: EXODUS TO WINTER QUARTERS ............................................................... 51 CHAPTER 12: EMIGRANT TRAIL .......................................................................................... 58 CHAPTER 13: A FEW OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA TERRY ................................. 85 CHAPTER 14: FORT BRIDGER ONWARD ............................................................................ 88 CHAPTER 15: TERRY FAMILY IN NORTHERN UTAH ....................................................... 91 CHAPTER 16: ROCKVILLE BECKONS WEARY TRAVELERS ......................................... 97 CHAPTER 17: JAMES PARSHALL TERRY’S MISSION ..................................................... 126 CHAPTER 18: JAMES PARSHALL ARRESTED FOR POLYGAMY .................................. 134 CHAPTER 19: DAVID PARSHALL AND PHOEBE TERRY ............................................... 142 CHAPTER 20: BIRTH OF A SCIENTIST ................................................................................ 145 CHAPTER 21: THE VIRGIN RIVER ...................................................................................... 150 CHAPTER 22: VILLAGES ALONG THE UPPER VIRGIN RIVER ..................................... 166 CHAPTER 23: MILLETS, DEMILLES, AND SHONESBURG ........................................... 173 CHAPTER 24: BYRON AND IDA MILLET ........................................................................... 189 CHAPTER 25: ARTHUR AND EMMALINE TERRY ........................................................... 190 ii CHAPTER 26: GROWING UP IN ROCKVILLE .................................................................... 216 CHAPTER 27: SOME HAPPENINGS AROUND THE TERRY FARM ................................ 238 CHAPTER 28: THE WORLD BEYOND ROCKVILLE ......................................................... 244 CHAPTER 29: LIFE AFTER ACADEMICS ........................................................................... 255 CHAPTER 30: MARY JEAN GROVES TERRY ..................................................................... 269 CHAPTER 31: MY LONG TERM PROJECTS ....................................................................... 275 CHAPTER 32: THE FUTURE IS UPON US ........................................................................... 294 CHAPTER 33: LIFE’S EXTENSIONS ..................................................................................... 302 CHAPTER 34: THE END OF THE WORLD ........................................................................... 319 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................... 321 iii A SKETCH OF KELLAND TERRY’S LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF HIS ANCESTORS AUTHOR: KELLAND DAVID TERRY Copyright September 17, 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted for commercial purposes in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any digital information storage and retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from the author. Kelland Terry PO Box 21289 Carson City, NV 89721 [email protected] CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION This historical journey provides a slice of life in America beginning with some of the earliest English to immigrate to New England in the 1630s. No one in the Terry family line becomes a famous politician, actor, or business tycoon, but there is one famous scientist, and we will meet him as the history unfolds. The Terrys were industrious, and they left some mark of the name wherever they lived. The Terrys were the earliest English settlers in Southold, Long Island in 1640, and there today we find on Long Island, Terryville, two Terry Cemeteries, and several streets named after them. During this period, one of them built a wharf to handle steamers, the largest ships of their time to carry freight and people. From there, we follow his son Parshall Terry who helps to form a company to settle the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. It was here that the Wyoming Valley Massacre took place during the American Revolution, which pitted father against son, and where the mother is scalped by the Indians. This story continues in Canada where Parshall Terry II becomes wealthy in the lumber business, becomes a politician, and builds a house that still stands today as part of the Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum in Toronto, Canada. 1 From here we follow his son Parshall Terry III who marries and lives in East Palmyra where the Terrys become friends with a young boy of about ten years of age whose name was Joseph Smith. This was likely a pivotal point because years later after they moved back to Canada, they joined the Mormon Church and immigrated to Far West, Missouri where they found themselves in embroiled in the middle of a war. The story from this point forward can be told with greater detail because James Parshall Terry, my great grandfather, wrote an autobiography, and his sister Elizabeth wrote a sketch of her life. The information for this historical account of my family was made possible because of a gift I received from my Aunt Evelyn Terry Bleak some 25 years ago. It was a copy of a collection of papers compiled by Nora Hall Lund and her husband Terry Lund who arranged for the descendants of Parshall Terry to submit a history of their own Terry family line. They held a Parshall Terry Family reunion in 1951, and out of this and the papers submitted came the Parshall Terry Family History compiled and distributed in 1956. It was given to me by my Aunt Evelyn. It is a collection of papers written by many individuals. I remember it was just a casual conversation with her, but here I am at 81 years of age attempting to weave together the lives and history of those Terrys who helped settle Long Island, New York in 1640 and 223 years later helped settle Rockville, Utah. Included among the papers Aunt Evelyn gave me was a sketch of life in Shonesburg, Utah coauthored by my Grandmother Ida DeMille Millet. And fortunately, there is information on the Internet that fills in the gaps of my great, great, Grandfather Artemus Millet and his descendants, and my great Grandfather Oliver DeMille and his descendants. The DeMilles, Millets, and Terrys were all original pioneers that crossed the plains and helped settle Utah’s Dixie. I wouldn’t even think about doing this if it were not for the modern convenience of a fast computer, search engines, eBooks, and Google Earth, which has allowed me to pinpoint the movement of my ancestors as they immigrated across North America. I have attempted to paint a picture of the events swirling around the Terry families down through time, and at my own whim, I sometimes digress or go off on a tangent that interests me and hopefully you too. The line of the Terry Family of interest in this book begins with Richard Terry. According to the Parshall Terry Family History, he was born August 17, 1618 in England. He was the son of Thomas Terry who was born about 1570, possibly in Staffordshire where the Terrys have been traced back through time for 500 years1. Richard Terry’s will, dated July 6, 1675, proved at Southold on May 13, 1675, names his five sons and five daughters and his brother, Thomas. It designated his wife Abigail as executrix and son Gershom executor. He died in May about one year later at little less than 57 years of age. This suggests to me that he knew he was going to die rather soon at the time he made his will. In chapter 23, I take up the DeMilles and Millets, my mother’s ancestors, who were also pioneers who crossed the plains and helped settle Utah’s Dixie. 2 CHAPTER 2: ENGLISH EMIGRANTS IN THE 1630S There were only 1500 Englishmen who had sailed to New England prior to the time Richard Terry sailed in 1635. However, by the time England was in the midst of a civil war in 1644, 30,000 emigrants had sailed from England to New England. After the civil war, emigration ceased for a while, and in a few cases some of those in America sailed back to England2. It took about two months for the little wooden ships to make the voyage from England to Boston. The ship that Richard and his two brothers sailed on was called the James. The James made two passages that summer, and Richard sailed on the second. The

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