Terrill, John Everett

   Another name for John was Terrill, John Emett.

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• his Biography was published in the Portrait and Biographical Album of Osceola County in 1984 in Osceola Couny, Michigan, USA. ²
E. J. Terrill, merchant and Postmaster at Avondale, and farmer, section 26, Hartwick Township, was born July 23, 1837 in Middletown, Vt. His father Ezra Terrill, was a farmer in the Green Mountain State, where he was born in the town of Middletown, in Rutland County.

In early life he was a miller. Later he went with his family to the State of New York, where he reared his family. In 1865, the Terrills, father and son, came to Michigan, where they remained at that time but a year, going in 1866 to Jones County, Iowa. There the mother, Orra (Newland) Terrill, died, June 11, 1870. She was born in Vermont. In March, 1881, Mr. Terrill, of this sketch, removed his family to Hartwick Township, whither he came a month earlier and bought 40 acres of land, on which some improvements had been made. He afterwards erected a building for a store, put in a stock of goods worth $1,200, and has since transacted a fairly good business as a merchant. On the establishment of the postoffice at this point he was appointed Postmaster.

The senior Terrill died at the home of his son on March 9, 1883.

Mr. Terrill is a Republican in political sentiment. He was married Feb. 20, 1862, at Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., to Bertha Bachelor, and they have the following name children: Orra L., born July 2, 1863; Inez M., born March 14, 1867; Irma L., Aug. 23, 1869 , and died Oct. 8, 1870; Albert K., Nov. 18, 1872. The mother is the daughter of Nathaniel and Lucretia (Ward) Bachelor. Her parents were natives respectively of Vermont and Massachusetts, and they located in North Amherst, Mass., where the mother died. The father went to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., married a second time and died there in March, 1862. Mrs. Terrill was born in Conway, Franklin Co., Mass., and was 12 years of age when she was taken by her father to the State of New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Terrill are members of the Baptist Church.

• Appeared on the 1900 US Census 1 Jun 1900 in Hartwick Township, Osceola County, Michigan, USA, Page: 9B.

Name: Terrill, Emett
Relation: Head
Color: W
Sex: M
Month of Birth: July
Year of Birth: 1837
Age: 62
Marital Status: M
Number of Years Married: 38
Mother of How Many Children:
Number of Children Living:
Place of Birth: Vermont
Place of Birth Father: Vermont
Place of Birth Mother: Vermont
Year Immigrated:
Years in U.S.:
Naturalization:
Occupation: Farming
Number of Months Not Employed: 0
Number of Months Attended School:
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
Home Owned or Rented: O
Home Owned Free or Mortgaged: M
Farm or House: F
Number of Farm Holder:: 147

• Appeared on the 1910 US Census 21 Apr 1910 in Hartwick Township, Osceola County, Michigan, USA, Page: 4B.

Name: Terrill, J. Emett
Relation: Head
Sex: M
Race: W
Age: 72
Marital Status: Wd
Number of Years Married:
Mother of how many Children:
Number of Children Living:
Place of Birth: Vermont
Place of Birth Father: Vermont
Place of Birth Mother: Massachusetts
Year of Immigration to US:
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Language Spoken: English
Occupation: Farms
Nature of Trade: General Farm
Employer, Worker, or Own Account: Emp
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Number of Weeks Out of Work 1909:
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Attended School:
Owned or Rented Home: O
Owned Free or Mortgage: M
Farm or House: F
Number of Farm Schedule: 67
Veteran of Civil War:
Blind:
Deaf and Dumb:

• Appeared on the 1920 US Census 13 Jan 1920 in Hartwick Township, Osceola County, Michigan, USA, Page: 3A.

Name: Terrill, John E.
Relation: Head
Home Owned or Rented: O
Owned Free or Mortgaged: M
Sex: M
Race: W
Age: 82
Marital Status: S
Year of Immigration to US:
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Year of Naturalization:
Attended School:
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Place of Birth: Vermont
Mother Tongue:
Place of Birth Father: Vermont
Mother Tongue:
Place of Birth Mother: New York
Mother Tongue:
Can Speak English: Yes
Occupation: None
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Employer, Worker, or Own Account:
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John married Bertha A. Bachelor on 20 Feb 1862 in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA. (Bertha A. Bachelor was born in Dec 1841 in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA, died in 1926 and was buried in Evart, Osceola County, Michigan, USA, Forest Hill Cemetery ³.)