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Terrill/Terrill/Tyrrell Lines


James William TERRILL Dr. [Parents] was born about 1837 in , Randolph Co., Missouri. He died in 1918 in Winchester, TN. James married Lily Mott ESTILL.

Other marriages:
BRADLEY, Ariminta S. "Minta"
BRADLEY, Elizabeth Martha
HAMILTON, Nancy Coleman

Was a minister and lawyer (LLD); president of Mt. Pleasant Baptist College. Moved to Winchester, Tenn. Had two children by first marriage, three by second, seven by third wife. Each of the first three wives had a child who died in infancy, but 12 survived. The College burned to the ground on 15 Jul 1882. He apparently fled to Texas during the Civil War, for the safety of his family, as his dtr. Maude was born there. He then returned to MO after the war.

He is found on p. 68 of the Salt Spring Township, Randolph Co. MO census for 1870, age 35, occupation Pres. of Mt. P. College, b. Kty. With him are his wife, Bettie, age 25; Maud, age 8; Menta, age 2 male; and Babe, age 5 months male (b. Mar 1870). The latter's sex must be in error on the census, as this would have to be Alma, b. 17 Feb 1870. Also in the household are B. Anderson, age 11 female; Mary Bradley, age 22 female; and John McClure (McClane?) age 10 male.

In August of 1995, I received a letter from a descendant, Jean Terrill Thurman Baker of 361 Iliaina Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. She enclosed a photograph of this family and the 11 children who had been born at the time of the photo. I have corrected the information I have on this family to agree with hers as she is more knowledgeable on the line.

The 1882 book mentioned under his father says about James "He is now, we believe, at Winchester, Tenn."

This was found in the Moberly Daily Enterprise newspaper:

"Terrill, James -- President of Mt. Pleasant College, has sold his property in Huntsville & will remove to Winchester, TN; Rev. S. A. Beauchamp succeeds him; MDM Wednesday 23 Feb 1876."

"Terrill, J. W. -- & family, left Huntsville for their future home at Winchester, TN, on Saturday last; MDM Wednesday 21 Jun 1876."

See note under his father about him.

Lily Mott ESTILL was born about 1850. She married James William TERRILL Dr..


William QUAYLE Col. was born on 18 Oct 1825 in Kirk, Michael Parish, Isle of Man. He died in 1901. William married Mary Elizabeth TERRILL in 1861.

Other marriages:
HENDERSON, Sarah

Information from "History of Randolph and Macon Counties, 1881", apparently biography written while he was still alive. Although not mentioned in his biography noted in the above book, another reference says that he was a Colonel in the Confederate Army. The Quayle history by Alexandros Quayle in 1925 also gives this title. Another source gives his parents and says that William emigrated in 1827 to Ontario Co., N.Y. and later went to Tarrant Co., Texas. Quayle says that he was "Senior Captain of five ships in Greenland when a young man". Also below:

QUAYLE, WILLIAM (1825-1901). William Quayle, Civil War officer, was born in Kirk Michael Parish, Isle of Man, on October 18, 1825. His parents came to America when he was a child and settled in Ontario County, New York. He attended Canadagua Academy. He went to sea for nearly ten years and eventually became a captain. He later traveled in Europe and Asia and was broken in health upon his return to America. He moved to Texas in the 1850s and settled near Grapevine, where he served as a district clerk, district judge, and chief justice of Tarrant County. He was opposed to secession; nonetheless he organized Company A, Ninth Texas Cavalry, the first company to leave Tarrant County for Confederate service. As lieutenant colonel he commanded the regiment at the battles of Pea Ridge and Corinth but soon returned to Tarrant County in poor health. Shortly after Quayle's return he won election to the state Senate and took his seat in February 1863. He served as cochairman on the Joint Committee on Frontier Protection and worked to push through the bill to transfer the Frontier Regiment to the Confederate Army and to form the state-supported Frontier Organization. In January 1864 Governor Pendleton Murrah appointed Quayle major in command of the First Frontier District, the nineteen organized counties on the state's northwestern frontier. From headquarters at Decatur, Quayle struggled throughout the spring and summer to maintain order in this, the most complex and difficult district to manage in the entire frontier organization. As well as patrolling against Indian raids, his men were kept busy searching for deserters, draft dodgers, and renegades. By summer's end, with his health failing, Quayle requested to be relieved. His replacement, James Webb Throckmorton, took command of the district on December 13, 1864. Quayle served briefly as Throckmorton's second-in-command until March 1865, when poor health required him to take a furlough. At the end of the war Quayle joined other Confederate officers and moved to Mexico for several years. He returned to Texas briefly, then moved to Missouri, where he lived the remainder of his life. He first married Sarah Henderson of Mississippi, then Elizabeth Terrill of Missouri. Quayle died at his home in Moberly, Missouri, on August 8, 1901.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Confederate Veteran, August 1902. Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, comp., Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (10 vols., Austin: Gammel, 1898). Julia Kathryn Garrett, Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph (Austin: Encino, 1972). David Paul Smith, Frontier Defense in Texas, 1861-1865 (Ph.D. dissertation, North Texas State University, 1987). Texas Legislature, Senate Journal, 9th Leg., 1st called sess., 1863; 10th Leg., reg. sess., 1863. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: GPO, 1880-1901).

Mary Elizabeth TERRILL [Parents] was born in 1840 in , Randolph Co., Missouri. She married William QUAYLE Col. in 1861.

Children from this marriage are given by her son, Alexandros in his book on the Terrill family, so should be accurate.

They had the following children:

  F i Katherine "Katie" QUAYLE
  M ii Benjamin QUAYLE was born about 1863. He died in 1870.
  F iii Papie Lee QUAYLE was born about 1865 in , , Mexico.
  M iv Charles L. QUAYLE
  M v Alexandros Jack QUAYLE was born about 1869 in , , Mexico.

This man wrote a book in 1925 given information on the Terrill lineage all the way back to the first French Knight who came to England. I have a copy and there are a lot of contradictions with the line which I have on this computer. He was living in Los Angeles, California in 1925.
  M vi James QUAYLE was born about 1871 in , , Missouri.
  F vii Maud Connell QUAYLE was born about 1873.

Jonas Crisler TERRILL Dr. [Parents] was born on 11 Nov 1844 in , Randolph Co., Missouri. He died on 17 Jun 1877 in , Randolph Co., Missouri. Jonas married Sophia SMITH on 1 May 1863.

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Boone Co.
DR. JONAS C. TERRILL, of Boone County, Ky., was born in Randolph County, Mo., November 11, 1844, and is a son of Rev. Benjamin Terrill, a native of Boone County, Ky., who grew to manhood in Boone and Greenup Counties, and then moved to Missouri, where he died June 17, 1877. He was a son of Robert and May Terrill. The Terrills are of Scotch ancestry. Jonas C. Terrill was educated at Mount Pleasant College, Missouri, and graduated in medicine at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery at Cincinnati. In 1865 he began practice in Boone County, where he has been very successful, and ranks high as a physician and surgeon. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Democrat in politics though not a politician. May 1, 1863, he married Miss Sophia Smith Crisler, that being her adopted name given her by Dr. B. M. Crisler, an eminent physician of Boone County. Her father was William Smith, of Petersburg, Ky. Four children have been born to them: Benjamin A., James W., S. Smith and May Frances. Mrs. Terrill is a member of the Baptist Church.

Sophia SMITH was born about 1845. She married Jonas Crisler TERRILL Dr. on 1 May 1863.

Her father was William Smith of Petersburg, KY. She was given the name of Sophia Smith Crisler by Dr. B.M. Crisler "an eminent physician of Boone CO.KY."

They had the following children:

  M i Benjamin A. TERRILL was born about 1864.
  M ii James W. TERRILL was born about 1866.
  iii S. Smith TERRILL was born about 1867.
  F iv May Frances TERRILL was born about 1870.

Samuel "Tuck" POWELL was born about 1840. He married Frances "Fannie" TERRILL on 27 Dec 1870 in , Randolph Co., Missouri.

Frances "Fannie" TERRILL [Parents] was born in 1845 in , Randolph Co., Missouri. She married Samuel "Tuck" POWELL on 27 Dec 1870 in , Randolph Co., Missouri.

The following was found in the newpaper, "The North Missouri Herald":

Powell, Samuel -- of the Roanoke High School, mar. 27 Dec 1870 Fannie
Terrill, all of Randolph Co. at Elder Benjamin Terril by Elder Joshua W. Terrill; NMH 11 Jan 1871


John SETLIFF was born about 1860. He married Katherine "Katie" QUAYLE.

Katherine "Katie" QUAYLE [Parents] was born about 1861. She died before 1925. Katherine married John SETLIFF.

The 1880 Randolph Co. MO census has Sarah A. Terrill age 17 in the family, but does not list Katie. She may have married by that time. She is given as deceased in book written by brother Alexandros in 1925.


Charles L. QUAYLE [Parents] was born on 15 Sep 1867 in , , Mexico. He died on 4 Nov 1902 in Moberly, , Missouri and was buried in Oakland Cem., Moberly, Missouri. Charles married Eudora "Dora" GOODFELLOW on 18 Jun 1891.

Was Chief of Police in Moberly. Listed in his obit as pallbearers are
four sons of John R. Terrill (#2699), (his 2nd cousins): James M., Henry R., Green, and Vincent. Also a Gene Terrill. Charles was always known as Charley. He was at one time a deputy U.S. Marshall. He died of TB. I have a news article on his life.

Eudora "Dora" GOODFELLOW was born in 1870. She died in 1939 and was buried in Oakland Cem., Moberly, Missouri. Eudora married Charles L. QUAYLE on 18 Jun 1891.

Her line back given at:

http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/r/u/Doras-L-Trussell/ODT1-0001.html

is:

1 Unknown Derigne . 2 Brian Derigne .... 3 Abraham Derigne 1810 - 1887 ....... +Elizabeth Unknown Last Name 1810 - 1878
....... 4 Sarah Jane Derigne Abt. 1833 - 1873.......... +Silas Holman ....... *2nd Husband of Sarah Jane Derigne:
.......... +Squire James Goodfellow Abt. 1833 -
.......... 5 James L. Goodfellow Abt. 1835 -
.......... 5 Anna Goodfellow Abt. 1863 - Abt. 1921
............. +Frederick Phelan Abt. 1857 - 1924
............. 6 Olive Mitchell Phelan
................ +Joseph J. Ogle - 1944................ 7 Amy B. Ogle ................... +Lawrence Holman
................... 8 Joseph Lawrence Holman
...................... +Sharon Unknown Last Name
................... 8 Elisabeth Holman
...................... +James M. Luetjen
...................... 9 James Lawrence Luetjen
...................... 9 Steven Douglas Luetjen
...................... 9 Amy Elisabeth Luetjen
................ 7 Joseph Barnes Ogle - 1942
................... +Never Married ................ 7 David Steeg Ogle ................... +Elaine Hull
................... 8 David Steeg Ogle, Jr.
...................... 9 David Steeg Ogle II
................ 7 Robert Phelan Ogle ................... +Kathleen Miller

................... 8 Robert Miller Ogle
...................... +Elizabeth Ann Duncan
...................... 9 Matthew Allen Ogle
................... 8 Margaret K. Ogle ................... 8 Amy Ogle ............. 6 James B. Phelan ................ +Elda Wray ................ 7 Jane Phelan ................... 8 Male Phelan Unknown ................... 8 Female Phelan Unknown
................ 7 James Phelan ................... 8 Female Phelan ................... 8 Female Phelan
............. 6 Frederick William Phelan ................ +Ethel Magruder ................ 7 Fred Ray Phelan
................... +Faye Unknown Last Name
................ 7 Richard Magruder Phelan
................... +Olive Unknow Last Name
................ *2nd Wife of Richard Magruder Phelan:
................... +Freda Underwood ................ 7 Daniel Lee Phelan ................... +Mary Unknown Last Name
................... 8 First Female Phelan
................... 8 Second Female Phelan
................... 8 First Male Phelan ............. 6 Sarah Anne Phelan

................ +Lloyd Irons 1890 - 1981
................ 7 Lloyd Neal Irons, Jr.
................ 7 Mary Anne Irons ................... +C. G. Davis ................... 8 Diane Davis ............. 6 Herbert Peter Phelan ................ +Mildred Noell ................ 7 Noel Phelan ................... +Unknown ................... 8 Female Phelan ................... 8 Male Phelan ................ 7 John Robert Phelan ................... +Unknown ................... 8 Female Phelan ................... 8 Male Phelan ................ 7 Barbara Phelan ................... +Jerry Hardister ................... 8 Nancy Hardister

................... 8 Laurie Hardister
................... 8 Linda Hardister
.......... 5 Peter A. Goodfellow Abt. 1865 -
.......... 5 Olive Goodfellow Abt. 1867 -............. +Owen Chapman .......... 5 Eudora "Dora" Goodfellow 1870 - 1939
............. +Charles L. Quayle Abt. 1867 - 1902
............. 6 Mary Elizabeth Quayle 1892 - 1965
................ +Omar Nelson Bradley 1893 - 1981

They had the following children:

  F i Mary Elizabeth QUAYLE
  F ii Jane QUAYLE

Omar Nelson BRADLEY Gen. [scrapbook] was born on 12 Feb 1893 in Clark, , Missouri. He died on 8 Apr 1981 in Fort Bliss, , Texas. Omar married Mary Elizabeth QUAYLE on 28 Dec 1916 in Columbia, , Missouri.

He is the famous five star "General of the Armies" of WW II. He married a second time after Mary's death. My father remembered him visiting his home as a child (Dad's mother was a Terrill cousin of the general's wife.)

In Gen. Bradley autobiography of his Army career "A Soldier's Story" published in 1951 on page 24 he states "My father, a country schoolteacher, had died when I was 14, leaving my mother, a seamstress to support me. After graduating from Moberly High School in 1910 I took a job with the railroad, hoping to save enough money to matriculate at the state university the following year." He goes on to talk about how he got into The Military Academy but does not mention in the book his wife, children or other personal matters.

He had a "stillborn boy born 1918 in Butt, MT."

Someone posted a request about his lineage:

<< John - maybe you can help me a little bit. I was always told that Omar Bradley was a cousin of my grandfather Joseph Calvin Dougherty. The family sometimes called him "cousin omer" (pronounced that way not O-maaar but om'r. Do you know of any connection he had to the Dougherty family? Or even the Atkins (because Gus Atkins md Joe's sister Elizabeth)? >>
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I couldn't have answered her inquiry, but someone else did 3/00:

"I checked my database for a Dougherty-Bradley connection. I came up with one. I have William Arthur Bradley (1880-1961 son of William Wright Bradley and Amanda Jane Lewis) marrying Eva Leo Dougherty (1891-1915). I have Eva as being the daughter of Joseph Dougherty (b. 1866) and Susan Green (b. 1865). I have two children for William Arthur and Eva Leo - Glenn Bradley and Okla Mae Bradley. William Arthur Bradley was related to Gen. Omar Bradley. William' Arthur's father, William Wright Bradley, was the son of Thomas Smith
Bradley and Barbary Ellen Cruse. Thomas and Barbara were the parents of eight children including the aforementioned William W. Another of their sons was Thomas Minter Bradley who was Omar's paternal grandfather.

Thomas Minter Bradley married Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (dau of John F. Lewis and Margaret A. ?). I have nine children listed from them. Their oldest son was John Smith Bradley who was Omar's father. It is from the Lewis family that I gain my connection to Omar Bradley. I am descended from Hester Ann Lewis who was the above mentioned Sarah's aunt.

As it turns out I am also related to the descendants of William Wright Bradley and Amanda Jane Lewis. Amanada was also a daughter of John F. Lewis and Margaret A. ?"
Carole Brace

Mary Elizabeth QUAYLE [Parents] was born on 25 Jul 1892. She died on 1 Dec 1965 in Walter Reed Hosp, Washington, D.C. and was buried in Arlington Cem.. Mary married Omar Nelson BRADLEY Gen. on 28 Dec 1916 in Columbia, , Missouri.

Died at Walter Reed Hospital from acute leukemia. Her obit says that she and husband were members of the same high school graduating class, but did not date until after he entered West Point. She taught school for two years in Minn. following two years of college work there. She was graduated from the Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, in 1916 and married the young Lieutenant Bradley that year. The obit mentions her dtr. and five grandchildren by name. She was buried at Arlington Cemetary. She shares the common ancestor Robert Terrill with my Dad's mother (1127) and the two were 2nd cousins, 1 generation removed.

They had the following children:

  F i Living

Wayne STEWART was born on 22 Nov 1896. He died in Dec 1974 in John Day, , Oregon. Wayne married Jane QUAYLE.

Jane QUAYLE [Parents] was born on 8 May 1895. She died in Sep 1966 in John Day, , Oregon. Jane married Wayne STEWART.

There is a card in a scrapbook, signed "Jane Q" and I wonder if it is this one.
It says "Our son has done outstanding work at Stanford Univ. and is now in Med. Electronics in San Francisco...lives alone and likes it He has a summer home in the Blue Mts. of Oregon, so we see him a week or two during the warm weather It is lovely up in the pines & we keep our favorite horses there and still love to ride them...we will be back in May after another week with sister...but just now we are headed for Greece after 2 wks on this lovely island. E. Phelan tells of you; she's such a dear. I was so pleased that you wrote me such a good letter on your typewriter & I think you are a wonder in your 90th year I loved hearing of each of your five children and the grand- children too. I know they are a group to be proud of & how I loved each of them when they were little fellows & Cousin Annie was so sweet to let me rock the baby...I always felt I was one of her immediate family."

This card was written from Palma, Mallorca where she was apparently visiting her sister and her husband, Gen. Bradley. It must have been written in 1965 as my grandfather Lloyd, to whom she was writing, was 90 that year. SSDI shows a Jane Stewart who was b. 8 May 1895, d. Sep 1966 in John Day, OR 87845, SS card issued in Oregon in 1951. This is likely to be her as there is a Wayne Stewart, b. 22 Nov 1896, d. Dec 1974 in John Day, OR, card issued in Oregon in 1951. This is likely to be this couple, so I will usee these dates.


Robert A. TERRILL [Parents] was born on 23 Sep 1853. He died on 9 Jun 1913. Robert married Jennie JACKSON on 14 Feb 1877 in Randolph Co., MO.

From Moberly Daily Monitor newspaper:

"Terrill, Robert -- m. 14 Feb Jennie Jackson at bride's father by Elder S. Y Pitts, all of Rand; MDM Thursday 22 Feb 1877"

Jennie JACKSON was born on 28 Jan 1853. She died on 28 Mar 1921. Jennie married Robert A. TERRILL on 14 Feb 1877 in Randolph Co., MO.

They had the following children:

  M i Robert Arthur TERRILL

Willard P. TERRILL Dr. [Parents] was born in 1859. He married Minnie SEARS.

Was a physician in same town as his dad.

The below was written in 1884:

DARKSVILLE - takes its name Dark Creek. William ELLIOTT was hunting in
1821, camped on bank of creek, said it was the darkest night he ever saw,
and Voila Dark Creek.

In town there is: drygoods & grocery store, blacksmith shop, cabinet
shop, saw and corn mill, wagon shop, shoe shop, tobacco factory, built
and managed by the Grange.
WS CAMPBELL is the postmaster; Dr. R.A. TERRILL (who lives on farm
adjoining the town) and Dr. W.P. TERRILL are the docs. Darksville was
settled in 1856.

Also:
Terrill, W.P. -- son of Dr. Robert R. Terrill, returned from the St. Louis Medical School to spend vacation; The Huntsville Herald 6 Jan 1881

Minnie SEARS was born about 1860. She married Willard P. TERRILL Dr..

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