Notes
- "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
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.
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