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• "I linked to your family history page in a websearch via MyHeritage.  I was looking for general information about my great-grandmother's family and I see you have Devil Jett  or Miles Terry listed and then his son Thomas Miles Terry 1787-1852. I also saw you or your page mentioned Floyd County [Kentucky].  I ... sort of think he was the man who started a new family and left my great-gm Martha Patsy Jane Terry.  ... I do not know a great deal about Devil Jett other than I find his name mysterious.  I am further descended through the Jett family and see no connection in the way back between the Terry and the Jett family of the area."
  --  Gwendolyn Andrews, Geneanet Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 11 January 2019
  
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  I am the great-granddaughter of Mary Jane Terry Jett 1877-1897. Her  family goes back to parents Miles and Luraney Johnson Terry, grandparents Isaac and Barbara Gabbard Terry, and then great-grandparents Thomas Miles Terry 1797-1852 who was married to Martha Jane or Patsy Johnson in Breathitt County.  This Thomas Miles was child of Miles B. or Devil Jet, and Hannah Horton. Siblings were Rachel, Annie, Leonard, and Susanna Elizabeth.
  
  It is the story that this Thomas Miles [Terry] left Patsy and children and took off and remarried and had a different family up in Floyd County.  I was just trying to be sure I had right person.  I was also wondering about the name Devil Jett as I am a Jett but not sure why or what Devil Jett means.  No insult but my Grandmother said we were not that old bad Curt Jett's bunch and I know she meant the feuding and killing Curtis Jett. I do not think he was related (well, not any more closely than us) to Devil Jet.
  --  Gwendolyn Andrews, Geneanet Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 19 January 2019
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  "Thomas Terry left Martha Johnson. Both remarried. Thomas to a Mary, surname unknown. Martha, to Benjamin Combs."
  --  Anonymous comment on the profile of Thomas Terry on FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/97GQ-NN2
  
  An 1850 census record in Carter County, Kentucky appears to be for this same Thomas Terry with his second wife, reported here as Mary.  The location matches with a death record for Thomas Terry in Carter County in 1852.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Breathitt County, Kentucky, 23 August, District 1, page 32-33, Hse/Fam #244
  Thomas Terry 53 M Farmer $300 Real Estate b Virginia [b abt 1797]
  Mary Terry 40 F b Kentucky [b abt 1810]
  Samuel W Terry 21 F Laborer b Kentucky [b abt 1829]
  Leonard Terry 14  M b Indiana [b abt 1836]
  Isaac Terry 12 F b Indiana [b abt 1838]
  Elijah Terry 8 F b indiana [b abt 1842]
  
  One of the sons of Thomas and Mary here is named Isaac, one of three born in Indiana.  If this is the same Thomas Terry whose first wife was Martha (Patsy) Johnson, this is Thomas' second son named Isaac.  He and Patsy had a son in 1820 whom they named Isaac.  He is linked to Martha's FAG memorial.  With the time gap, as well as location of birth, of the last three sons, it appears that Samuel is the son of Thomas' first wife, Martha Patsy Johnson, and the three Indiana-born sons are the sons of Mary.
  
  There are too many missing records and details to conclude at this point.  Additionally, there are many individuals among the Terry, Johnson and Combs families, of near ages with the same given names.  Along with this, these families share a broad set of preferred names that kept getting used over and over, further confusing parentage in records and family memories.  And all three of these families intermarried in several generations.  So missing details in records make it difficult to discern specific relationships and parentage in several cases.
  
  Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965
  Thomas Terry
  "a farmer and married man"
  Birth Date abt 1802
  Death Age 50
  Death Nov 1852 Carter County, Kentucky, USA
  Cause of Death flux
  Father Miles Terry (no mother named)
  Recorded 24 March 1853 Carter County Death Records, p 3

Sources

• 1. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965
• 2. Geneanet Messaging
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 23 August, District 1, page 32-33, Hse/Fam #244
• 4. Combs-Families.org
• 5. FamilySearch Comments
• 6. 1860 Federal Census, Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 12 July, District 1, P O Jackson, page 81 (scan 351), Hse/Fam #552
• 7. Find a Grave Memorial Registry