Life History

Notes

• "My paternal grandparents were Joe Terry and Carrie Belle Lovin Terry.  Their children were Elsie, Myrtle, Gertie, Leo, Otto, Augusta, Gladys, Eugene, Agnes and Robert (Bobby)."
  --  Sharon Terry, email to orville Boyd Jenkins, 14 March 2016
  
  1910 Federal Census, Latimer County, Oklahoma, 15 April, Buffalo Township, District 133, page 4A, Hse/Fam #70
  Terry, James [Joseph] Head M W 28 Married 7 years AR KY AR Farmer Rents
  Terry, Bell Wife F W 23 Married 7 years 4 children/4 living AR NC NC
  Terry, Leo Son M W 6mos OK AR AR
  
  1920 Federal Census, Seminole County, Oklahoma, 3 March, Konawa Township, District 245, page 12B,  Hse #222, Fam #234
  Terry, Joe Head  Rents  M W 38 Married AR AR AR Farmer
  Terry, Bell Wife F W 33 Married AR NC NC
  Terry, Leo Son M W 9 OK AR AR
  
  Notice that Leo is reported as only 9 years old, but he was already 6 months old in April 1910!  His age in 1930 is short also.
  
  1930 Federal Census, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, 3 April, Avoca Township, District 10, page 1A, Hse/Fam #9
  Terry, Joe Head M W 49 Married at age 23 [abt 26 yrs, or 1904] AR AR AR Farmer
  Terry, Belle Wife F W 42 Married at age 16 [abt 26 yrs, or 1904] AR AR AR
  Terry, Myrtle Dau F W 25 OK AR AR [abt 1905]
  Terry, Leo Son M W 19 OK AR AR Farm Laborer [abt 1911]
  Terry, Gladys Dau F W 18 OK AR AR  [abt 1912]
  
  Along the way somewhere the family lost a year in their memory of when Leo was born.  His official records with Social Security and his death record in California also report a bireth date in ctober 1910.  Thisis impossible, as we see above, since he was already 9 months old at the tie time of the April 1910 census.  Though figuring back form the 9 months report in the 1910 xcensus seems to give us Spetember as a month of birth, the October date is probably right, but the year would be 1909.
  
  California Death Index
  Leo A Terry
  Birth 1 Oct 1910 Oklahoma
  Death 12 Jan 1974 Contra Costa County, California
  
  Social Security Death Index
  Leo Terry
  Birth 1 Oct 1910
  Death Jan 1974 Richmond, Contra Costa, California
  SS #445-07-8238 Issued Oklahoma Before 1951

Sources

• 1. 1910 Federal Census, Latimer County, Oklahoma
  • 15 April, Buffalo Township, District 133, page 4A, Hse/Fam #70
• 2. 1920 Federal Census, Seminole County, Oklahoma
  • 3 March, Konawa Township, District 245, page 12B,  Hse #222, Fam #234
• 3. California Death Index, 1940-1997
• 4. Social Security Death Index
• 5. 1930 Federal Census, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
  • 3 April, Avoca Township, District 10, page 1A, Hse/Fam #9
• 6. U.S. Family Photo Collection, c. 1850-2000
• 7. Sharon Terry