Rev. Josiah TERRILL [Parents] was born on 23 Aug 1804 in Harrison Co., West Virginia. He died on 14 Sep 1887 in Perry, Jefferson Co., Kansas. Josiah married Sarah PROVAULT on 21 Dec 1826 in Logan Co., OH.
Other marriages:MAYHEW, Mary Ann
MCBRIDE, Minerva
Notes for REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
>From Portrait and Bigraphical Album of Jackson, Jefferson, and Potawatomie Counties, Kansas, 1890
Rev. Josiah Terrel. The first man to settle upon the present site of Perry (Kansas) deserves more than a passing mention; and especially so in this case, as the subject of this notice was one worthy of all respect. As a pioneer preacher of Kansas he saw much hardship and privation, being the third minister of the United Brethren denomination to settle in the State. He was born in Virginia Aug. 23, 1804, and when a child of seven years was taken by his parents to Champaign County, Ohio, they settling there in 1811. He was the sixth in a family of thirteen children and was reared on the frontier, obtaining his education mostly around the evening fireside, and being fond of books, thus acquired a very good fund of general knowledge.The subject of this notice was the son of Enoch Terrel, a native of Wales, who in emigrating to America was accompanied by his father, then a hale and hearty old man, whose age numbered one hundred years. He lived four years thereafter and was then gathered to his fathers. Enoch Terrel, locating in Virginia, followed farming there until 1811, then removed with his family to Champaign County, Ohio, settling among the Indians in the wilderness. He engaged in farming and milling and became well-to-do, at the same time exerting no small influence in his community. A part of the old mill which he operated is still standing almost the only relic of a bygone age. He served as an officer in the War of 1812, and at one time while in the service was nearly frozen to death. He was for many years a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and finally died in 1817, from the effects of an injury received in his mill.
Josiah Terrel assisted his father in farming and milling until his death and remained with his mother until reaching his majority. He was then married to Miss Sara Provault, a native of Ohio, and of German descent. Soon afterward they removed to a farm in Indiana where Mr. Terrel was converted to religion in a singular manner while hauling a load of hay. Within three days he began exhorting and in 1834 was licensed to preach in the United Brethren Church, leaving his farm to do so. He preached at Nauvoo, Ill., in the temple after the Mormons had left and was instrumental in rousing the people against the followers of Joe Smith, denouncing them from the pulpit. At Nauvoo his first wife died. He possessed a fine intellect and aside from being a successful public speaker, was straightforward in his dealings and conscientious in his life.
Mr. Terrel's life was often threatened on account of his out-spoken doctrines. Later, in Missouri and Kansas, he became Presiding Elder. Ant one time his jurisdiction extended nearly over the whole State of Illinois. In the meantime he lived at Blandinsville, until 1853, and was there a second time married to Miss Mary Mayhew. This lady was born in Ohio and was the daughter of Laban Mayhew, a native of Kentucky, who moved first to Southern Ohio, then back to his native State and finally to McDonough County, Ill., where he engaged in farming until his death; he was of French descent.
In the spring of 1853 we find Josiah Terrel in Missouri and for two years thereafter he was established at Carthage, officiating as a missionary sent by the Illinois Conference. Later he was County Superintendent of Jasper and Barton counties, and was also Postmaster. He secured eighty acres of land, but gave most of his attention to his clerical duties. Through him the Western Conference was organized and the first meeting thereafter held at his house was presided over by Bishop Bright. He came to Kansas as a missionary and first established a church at Mound City, preaching the first sermon at Ft. Scott, also organizing a church there. He was elected Presiding Elder for eight years, then having suffered a stroke of paralysis retired from the ministry. In 1864 he purchased property in Lecompton and he had other property which he had accumulated while traveling around. His wife was an excellent manager and attended to the farm in his absence.
The Lane University at Lecompton while not organize by him was established largely through the instrumentality of Mr. Terrel. He stared in the drug business in that place, conducting it successfully and was also Postmaster. In 1866 he removed to Perry and was the first man to engage in the drug business there. He also organized a United Brethren Church, throwing his own house open for religious meetings of all kinds. From 1878 he live retired from active business.
The second wife of Mr. Terrel died in Perry in December 1867, at the age of forty eight years, and he was a third time married to Mrs. Minerva McBride. This lady was born in New York State and is still living, making her home in California with one of her daughters. Mr. Terrel spent the last three years with his daughter, Josephine, Mrs. J.R. Pendroy, and departed this life Sept. 14, 1887. His remains were laid to rest in the Perry cemetery, which he had assisted in purchasing and laying out.
He passed away honored and revered and his name will be held in kindly remembrance for many years to come. Politically, Mr. Terrel was a sound Republican and preached the abolition of slavery from the pulpit.
Of the first marriage of Mr. Terrel there were born seven children, viz: Enoch, William, Rebecca, John, Josiah, Sarah, Benjamin. The boys, with the exception of the last mentioned, who died at the age of two years, all served as solders in the Union Army. Of the second marriage there were born two children only: Josephine, (Mrs. J. R. Pendroy) a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume, and Mary, (Mrs. Gilfillin) of Perry.
FROM THE RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE, DAYTON OHIO, NOVEMBER 16, 1887:
....converted in Fulton County, Indiana, in 1841, receiving license in 1842, like a meteor blazing and burning, he swept Ohio, northern Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and into Kansas charge with electric fire from above. His words fell upon his audiences like thunderbolts, often prostrating fifty or one hundred in the same services. In preaching Christ and him crucified he found his highest delight as long as he was able; therefore, we cheerfully adopt the following resolutions:
Resolved, 1. That in the departure of Father Terrell we have lost a veteran in the ministry - a man called of God to preach, and who acquitted himself well.
2. While we would ever keep our brother with us, yet we meekly submit to the will of Him who doeth all things well.
3. We will keep in our hearts and prayers the dear children and friends Father Terrell has left behind, and pray that they and we may meet him in heaven.FROM OUR HEROES, OR UNITED BRETHREN HOME MISSIONARIES by W.M. Weekley and H. H. Fout, United Brethren Missionary Society, U.B. Building, Dayton Ohio, 1908:
Josiah Terrell moved to Kansas from southern Missouri in 1856, and joined himself to the handful of workers already on the ground. While preaching in Missouri he suffered many indignities at the hands of the Church's opposers, being threatened more than once with mod violence. But, like many of his contemporaries, he had given himself to the cause of human freedom, and to the work of the Church, and proposed to carry out the program at all hazard. His chivalry knew no fear; his zeal for the kingdom know no languor. Serving as presiding elder in Kansas for years he became well know and was loved by all the churches.
Though his support was pitifully small, and his privations manifold, he always took a hopeful view of things, and believed most implicitly in a sustaining and over-ruling Providence. One illustration will serve to show the true spirit of the man. One day, when traveling in company with missionary Cardwell, his horse mired as he entered a stream, and fell in the ice-cold water. The rider, however, with rare presence of mind, kept in the saddle, and when the horse finally came to his feet again, shouted at the top of his voice, "Glory to God for salvation." After riding many miles farther in his we clothes, in the face of a cold March wind, he preached with great power to a crowded house.
It may not be out of place, in this connection to give, briefly, the history of a church bell with which this pioneer had to do. While it may have but little relation to the general purpose of this book, it will, without doubt, interest the reader, as it has in it a touch both of the romantic and the pathetic.
On his way from General Conference in 1849, he purchased a bell in Cincinnati for a certain church in Illinois, and as he could get it for half-price paid for it himself. When the bell was put up he had a note made in the quarterly conference record to the effect that the property was his, and should be so recognized, until paid for. After a while the preaching-place was dropped, the church sold, and a law-suit instituted by certain parties to secure the bell. While the trial was in progress the real owner rode into town, and, hearing of what was going on, at once looked up the old quarterly-conference minutes, presented them to the court, and demanded the property, which was awarded him without hesitation. It 1854 he moved the bell in his wagon to Missouri, later to Mound City, Kansas, and finally to Lecompton, when he sold it to the Presbyterians for ninety dollars.
A few years passed and these people gave up their appointment here, and built in the town of Perry, north of the Kaw River, a mile and a half distant. Being in need of a bell they decided to transfer to the new church the one they had left in Lecompton, and accordingly sent for it. But the citizens of the little burg refused most positively to see it moved. They had paid for it, they said, and proposed to keep it. Nothing more was said for a time. Finally, the Fourth of July came around. The people of Lecompton were patriotic, and all went out to a grove a mile or two away to celebrate. Upon returning home in the evening they were greatly surprised to hear the clear tones of their venerable bell ringing out from the cupola of the Perry Presbyterian Church, it having been carried away in their absence, and without their knowledge.
This was not all. Father Terrell, in his last years moved to Perry and died there; and this same bell called the people to his funeral, which was conducted by Dr. G.M. Huffman (pastor at Lecompton) and tolled a solemn requiem as the procession started toward the place of burial.
ORGANIZATION OF THE KANSAS CONFERENCE
On the 30th of October, 1857, Bishop David Edwards organized the Kansas Conference in a sod house owned by S. S. Snyder. Other helpers, who will be noticed later, had come in by this time. Five ministers besides the Bishop and two laymen were present. The church membership was about two hundred. The following appointments were made: S. S. Snyder, presiding elder. Tecumseh, W.H. Cardwell; Big Springs, A.M. Thornton; Lawrence, S. Kretzinger; Prairie City, J.S. Gingerich; Upper Neosho, G. Perkins; Lower Neosho, A. Bixler; Fort Scott, J. Terrell; Ossawotamie, W. Huffman
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, VOL. II, by John Lawrence, Published at the United Brethren Printing Establishment, Sowers & King Publishers, Dayton, Ohio, 1861:(A camp meeting near Joseph Terrel's farm, 1841) Among the persons awakened at this meeting was Josiah Terrel, a man of considerable note in his neighborhood. Being one of Satan's recruiting officers, he delighted in sports of various kinds, played the violin well, and loved the dance. Drawn to the camp-meeting by curiosity, he was awakened, went forward to the altar, invited the attention of the people, and there made a public confession of his sinful life - expressed his determination to be a Christian, and then knelt as a penitent at the mourner's bench. While he spake, every eye was filled with tears; and after he knelt, his plaintive voice, pleading for mercy, could be distinctly heard above all other voices. But he did not find peace at the meeting. He requested Bro. Lamb, on the evening after the meeting closed, to preach at his house, which he did. During the meeting Mr. Terrel arose, confessed how he had been attached to the fiddle, and had taught his children and neighbors to dance, asked forgiveness of all, and then deliberately taking down the offending instrument of music, he cast it into the fire. Soon after he found salvation, and began to preach; and, we may add, he proved himself a chosen vessel of the Lord.
The Lord of the harvest now began more rapidly to multiply the laborers in this widening field. At a quarterly conference held on St. Joseph circuit, in 1842, Willam Davis, the presiding elder, organized a missionary movement which operated very favorably for the cause. Three men, Joseph Terrel, Josiah Terrel, and T. J. Babcoke, had obtained license to preach; and Mr. Davis informed them that he wished to employ them all as missionaries. He told them frankly that there was no missionary money to pay them - that they must depend upon the small sums given them by the people, looking for their principal reward in the world to come. They all consented, on these terms, to travel. Babcoke was sent toward Middleburg, Joseph Terrel toward Huntington, and Josiah to the region about Leesburg. Each of these missionaries, sent out from the quarterly conference by the presiding elder, was successful in planting the church in the new fields named.
More About REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
Age at Death (Facts Pg): 83 years , 21 days
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Perry, Kansas
Locations: (West) Virginia, Ohio, Indiana (1840 Census, Fulton. Co.), Illinois (1850 Census, Iroquois Co.), Missouri, Kansas
Medical Information: A memorial written about Josiah describes him as using cruthes in his later years.
Names (Facts Pg): Also Terrell
Occupation: Minister in the United Brethren Church; farmer
Religion: Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Sarah PROVAULT was born about 1805. She died in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL. Sarah married Rev. Josiah TERRILL on 21 Dec 1826 in Logan Co., OH.
Nationality: "of German descent"
They had the following children:
M i Enoch P. TERRILL F ii Rebecca TERRILL M iii John J. TERRILL was born in 1830 in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., OH.
Military service: Served Union in Civil War
Relationships: A grave found at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois of a John Terrell, died February 18, 1853 (4 days old) is thought by some to be the son of John Terrell, son of Joshia Terrel.M iv William P. TERRILL M v Josiah B. TERRILL F vi Sarah TERRILL was born in 1837 in Fulton Co., IN.
Birth Location: One record says Logan Co., OhioM vii Benjamin F. TERRILL was born in 1839 in Fulton Co., IN. He died in 1841 in Fulton Co., IN.
Rev. Josiah TERRILL [Parents] was born on 23 Aug 1804 in Harrison Co., West Virginia. He died on 14 Sep 1887 in Perry, Jefferson Co., Kansas. Josiah married Mary Ann MAYHEW on 19 Apr 1849 in Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL.
Other marriages:PROVAULT, Sarah
MCBRIDE, Minerva
Notes for REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
>From Portrait and Bigraphical Album of Jackson, Jefferson, and Potawatomie Counties, Kansas, 1890
Rev. Josiah Terrel. The first man to settle upon the present site of Perry (Kansas) deserves more than a passing mention; and especially so in this case, as the subject of this notice was one worthy of all respect. As a pioneer preacher of Kansas he saw much hardship and privation, being the third minister of the United Brethren denomination to settle in the State. He was born in Virginia Aug. 23, 1804, and when a child of seven years was taken by his parents to Champaign County, Ohio, they settling there in 1811. He was the sixth in a family of thirteen children and was reared on the frontier, obtaining his education mostly around the evening fireside, and being fond of books, thus acquired a very good fund of general knowledge.The subject of this notice was the son of Enoch Terrel, a native of Wales, who in emigrating to America was accompanied by his father, then a hale and hearty old man, whose age numbered one hundred years. He lived four years thereafter and was then gathered to his fathers. Enoch Terrel, locating in Virginia, followed farming there until 1811, then removed with his family to Champaign County, Ohio, settling among the Indians in the wilderness. He engaged in farming and milling and became well-to-do, at the same time exerting no small influence in his community. A part of the old mill which he operated is still standing almost the only relic of a bygone age. He served as an officer in the War of 1812, and at one time while in the service was nearly frozen to death. He was for many years a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and finally died in 1817, from the effects of an injury received in his mill.
Josiah Terrel assisted his father in farming and milling until his death and remained with his mother until reaching his majority. He was then married to Miss Sara Provault, a native of Ohio, and of German descent. Soon afterward they removed to a farm in Indiana where Mr. Terrel was converted to religion in a singular manner while hauling a load of hay. Within three days he began exhorting and in 1834 was licensed to preach in the United Brethren Church, leaving his farm to do so. He preached at Nauvoo, Ill., in the temple after the Mormons had left and was instrumental in rousing the people against the followers of Joe Smith, denouncing them from the pulpit. At Nauvoo his first wife died. He possessed a fine intellect and aside from being a successful public speaker, was straightforward in his dealings and conscientious in his life.
Mr. Terrel's life was often threatened on account of his out-spoken doctrines. Later, in Missouri and Kansas, he became Presiding Elder. Ant one time his jurisdiction extended nearly over the whole State of Illinois. In the meantime he lived at Blandinsville, until 1853, and was there a second time married to Miss Mary Mayhew. This lady was born in Ohio and was the daughter of Laban Mayhew, a native of Kentucky, who moved first to Southern Ohio, then back to his native State and finally to McDonough County, Ill., where he engaged in farming until his death; he was of French descent.
In the spring of 1853 we find Josiah Terrel in Missouri and for two years thereafter he was established at Carthage, officiating as a missionary sent by the Illinois Conference. Later he was County Superintendent of Jasper and Barton counties, and was also Postmaster. He secured eighty acres of land, but gave most of his attention to his clerical duties. Through him the Western Conference was organized and the first meeting thereafter held at his house was presided over by Bishop Bright. He came to Kansas as a missionary and first established a church at Mound City, preaching the first sermon at Ft. Scott, also organizing a church there. He was elected Presiding Elder for eight years, then having suffered a stroke of paralysis retired from the ministry. In 1864 he purchased property in Lecompton and he had other property which he had accumulated while traveling around. His wife was an excellent manager and attended to the farm in his absence.
The Lane University at Lecompton while not organize by him was established largely through the instrumentality of Mr. Terrel. He stared in the drug business in that place, conducting it successfully and was also Postmaster. In 1866 he removed to Perry and was the first man to engage in the drug business there. He also organized a United Brethren Church, throwing his own house open for religious meetings of all kinds. From 1878 he live retired from active business.
The second wife of Mr. Terrel died in Perry in December 1867, at the age of forty eight years, and he was a third time married to Mrs. Minerva McBride. This lady was born in New York State and is still living, making her home in California with one of her daughters. Mr. Terrel spent the last three years with his daughter, Josephine, Mrs. J.R. Pendroy, and departed this life Sept. 14, 1887. His remains were laid to rest in the Perry cemetery, which he had assisted in purchasing and laying out.
He passed away honored and revered and his name will be held in kindly remembrance for many years to come. Politically, Mr. Terrel was a sound Republican and preached the abolition of slavery from the pulpit.
Of the first marriage of Mr. Terrel there were born seven children, viz: Enoch, William, Rebecca, John, Josiah, Sarah, Benjamin. The boys, with the exception of the last mentioned, who died at the age of two years, all served as solders in the Union Army. Of the second marriage there were born two children only: Josephine, (Mrs. J. R. Pendroy) a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume, and Mary, (Mrs. Gilfillin) of Perry.
FROM THE RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE, DAYTON OHIO, NOVEMBER 16, 1887:
....converted in Fulton County, Indiana, in 1841, receiving license in 1842, like a meteor blazing and burning, he swept Ohio, northern Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and into Kansas charge with electric fire from above. His words fell upon his audiences like thunderbolts, often prostrating fifty or one hundred in the same services. In preaching Christ and him crucified he found his highest delight as long as he was able; therefore, we cheerfully adopt the following resolutions:
Resolved, 1. That in the departure of Father Terrell we have lost a veteran in the ministry - a man called of God to preach, and who acquitted himself well.
2. While we would ever keep our brother with us, yet we meekly submit to the will of Him who doeth all things well.
3. We will keep in our hearts and prayers the dear children and friends Father Terrell has left behind, and pray that they and we may meet him in heaven.FROM OUR HEROES, OR UNITED BRETHREN HOME MISSIONARIES by W.M. Weekley and H. H. Fout, United Brethren Missionary Society, U.B. Building, Dayton Ohio, 1908:
Josiah Terrell moved to Kansas from southern Missouri in 1856, and joined himself to the handful of workers already on the ground. While preaching in Missouri he suffered many indignities at the hands of the Church's opposers, being threatened more than once with mod violence. But, like many of his contemporaries, he had given himself to the cause of human freedom, and to the work of the Church, and proposed to carry out the program at all hazard. His chivalry knew no fear; his zeal for the kingdom know no languor. Serving as presiding elder in Kansas for years he became well know and was loved by all the churches.
Though his support was pitifully small, and his privations manifold, he always took a hopeful view of things, and believed most implicitly in a sustaining and over-ruling Providence. One illustration will serve to show the true spirit of the man. One day, when traveling in company with missionary Cardwell, his horse mired as he entered a stream, and fell in the ice-cold water. The rider, however, with rare presence of mind, kept in the saddle, and when the horse finally came to his feet again, shouted at the top of his voice, "Glory to God for salvation." After riding many miles farther in his we clothes, in the face of a cold March wind, he preached with great power to a crowded house.
It may not be out of place, in this connection to give, briefly, the history of a church bell with which this pioneer had to do. While it may have but little relation to the general purpose of this book, it will, without doubt, interest the reader, as it has in it a touch both of the romantic and the pathetic.
On his way from General Conference in 1849, he purchased a bell in Cincinnati for a certain church in Illinois, and as he could get it for half-price paid for it himself. When the bell was put up he had a note made in the quarterly conference record to the effect that the property was his, and should be so recognized, until paid for. After a while the preaching-place was dropped, the church sold, and a law-suit instituted by certain parties to secure the bell. While the trial was in progress the real owner rode into town, and, hearing of what was going on, at once looked up the old quarterly-conference minutes, presented them to the court, and demanded the property, which was awarded him without hesitation. It 1854 he moved the bell in his wagon to Missouri, later to Mound City, Kansas, and finally to Lecompton, when he sold it to the Presbyterians for ninety dollars.
A few years passed and these people gave up their appointment here, and built in the town of Perry, north of the Kaw River, a mile and a half distant. Being in need of a bell they decided to transfer to the new church the one they had left in Lecompton, and accordingly sent for it. But the citizens of the little burg refused most positively to see it moved. They had paid for it, they said, and proposed to keep it. Nothing more was said for a time. Finally, the Fourth of July came around. The people of Lecompton were patriotic, and all went out to a grove a mile or two away to celebrate. Upon returning home in the evening they were greatly surprised to hear the clear tones of their venerable bell ringing out from the cupola of the Perry Presbyterian Church, it having been carried away in their absence, and without their knowledge.
This was not all. Father Terrell, in his last years moved to Perry and died there; and this same bell called the people to his funeral, which was conducted by Dr. G.M. Huffman (pastor at Lecompton) and tolled a solemn requiem as the procession started toward the place of burial.
ORGANIZATION OF THE KANSAS CONFERENCE
On the 30th of October, 1857, Bishop David Edwards organized the Kansas Conference in a sod house owned by S. S. Snyder. Other helpers, who will be noticed later, had come in by this time. Five ministers besides the Bishop and two laymen were present. The church membership was about two hundred. The following appointments were made: S. S. Snyder, presiding elder. Tecumseh, W.H. Cardwell; Big Springs, A.M. Thornton; Lawrence, S. Kretzinger; Prairie City, J.S. Gingerich; Upper Neosho, G. Perkins; Lower Neosho, A. Bixler; Fort Scott, J. Terrell; Ossawotamie, W. Huffman
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, VOL. II, by John Lawrence, Published at the United Brethren Printing Establishment, Sowers & King Publishers, Dayton, Ohio, 1861:(A camp meeting near Joseph Terrel's farm, 1841) Among the persons awakened at this meeting was Josiah Terrel, a man of considerable note in his neighborhood. Being one of Satan's recruiting officers, he delighted in sports of various kinds, played the violin well, and loved the dance. Drawn to the camp-meeting by curiosity, he was awakened, went forward to the altar, invited the attention of the people, and there made a public confession of his sinful life - expressed his determination to be a Christian, and then knelt as a penitent at the mourner's bench. While he spake, every eye was filled with tears; and after he knelt, his plaintive voice, pleading for mercy, could be distinctly heard above all other voices. But he did not find peace at the meeting. He requested Bro. Lamb, on the evening after the meeting closed, to preach at his house, which he did. During the meeting Mr. Terrel arose, confessed how he had been attached to the fiddle, and had taught his children and neighbors to dance, asked forgiveness of all, and then deliberately taking down the offending instrument of music, he cast it into the fire. Soon after he found salvation, and began to preach; and, we may add, he proved himself a chosen vessel of the Lord.
The Lord of the harvest now began more rapidly to multiply the laborers in this widening field. At a quarterly conference held on St. Joseph circuit, in 1842, Willam Davis, the presiding elder, organized a missionary movement which operated very favorably for the cause. Three men, Joseph Terrel, Josiah Terrel, and T. J. Babcoke, had obtained license to preach; and Mr. Davis informed them that he wished to employ them all as missionaries. He told them frankly that there was no missionary money to pay them - that they must depend upon the small sums given them by the people, looking for their principal reward in the world to come. They all consented, on these terms, to travel. Babcoke was sent toward Middleburg, Joseph Terrel toward Huntington, and Josiah to the region about Leesburg. Each of these missionaries, sent out from the quarterly conference by the presiding elder, was successful in planting the church in the new fields named.
More About REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
Age at Death (Facts Pg): 83 years , 21 days
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Perry, Kansas
Locations: (West) Virginia, Ohio, Indiana (1840 Census, Fulton. Co.), Illinois (1850 Census, Iroquois Co.), Missouri, Kansas
Medical Information: A memorial written about Josiah describes him as using cruthes in his later years.
Names (Facts Pg): Also Terrell
Occupation: Minister in the United Brethren Church; farmer
Religion: Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Mary Ann MAYHEW was born in 1820. She died on 12 Jan 1868 in Jefferson Co., Kansas and was buried in Oak Ridge Cem., Perry, KS. Mary married Rev. Josiah TERRILL on 19 Apr 1849 in Blandinsville, McDonough Co., IL.
Dtr. of Laban Mayhew. "Of French descent."
They had the following children:
F i Josephine Mary TERRILL F ii Mary Josephine TERRILL
Rev. Josiah TERRILL [Parents] was born on 23 Aug 1804 in Harrison Co., West Virginia. He died on 14 Sep 1887 in Perry, Jefferson Co., Kansas. Josiah married Minerva MCBRIDE on 3 Nov 1869 in Douglas Co., KS.
Other marriages:PROVAULT, Sarah
MAYHEW, Mary Ann
Notes for REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
>From Portrait and Bigraphical Album of Jackson, Jefferson, and Potawatomie Counties, Kansas, 1890
Rev. Josiah Terrel. The first man to settle upon the present site of Perry (Kansas) deserves more than a passing mention; and especially so in this case, as the subject of this notice was one worthy of all respect. As a pioneer preacher of Kansas he saw much hardship and privation, being the third minister of the United Brethren denomination to settle in the State. He was born in Virginia Aug. 23, 1804, and when a child of seven years was taken by his parents to Champaign County, Ohio, they settling there in 1811. He was the sixth in a family of thirteen children and was reared on the frontier, obtaining his education mostly around the evening fireside, and being fond of books, thus acquired a very good fund of general knowledge.The subject of this notice was the son of Enoch Terrel, a native of Wales, who in emigrating to America was accompanied by his father, then a hale and hearty old man, whose age numbered one hundred years. He lived four years thereafter and was then gathered to his fathers. Enoch Terrel, locating in Virginia, followed farming there until 1811, then removed with his family to Champaign County, Ohio, settling among the Indians in the wilderness. He engaged in farming and milling and became well-to-do, at the same time exerting no small influence in his community. A part of the old mill which he operated is still standing almost the only relic of a bygone age. He served as an officer in the War of 1812, and at one time while in the service was nearly frozen to death. He was for many years a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and finally died in 1817, from the effects of an injury received in his mill.
Josiah Terrel assisted his father in farming and milling until his death and remained with his mother until reaching his majority. He was then married to Miss Sara Provault, a native of Ohio, and of German descent. Soon afterward they removed to a farm in Indiana where Mr. Terrel was converted to religion in a singular manner while hauling a load of hay. Within three days he began exhorting and in 1834 was licensed to preach in the United Brethren Church, leaving his farm to do so. He preached at Nauvoo, Ill., in the temple after the Mormons had left and was instrumental in rousing the people against the followers of Joe Smith, denouncing them from the pulpit. At Nauvoo his first wife died. He possessed a fine intellect and aside from being a successful public speaker, was straightforward in his dealings and conscientious in his life.
Mr. Terrel's life was often threatened on account of his out-spoken doctrines. Later, in Missouri and Kansas, he became Presiding Elder. Ant one time his jurisdiction extended nearly over the whole State of Illinois. In the meantime he lived at Blandinsville, until 1853, and was there a second time married to Miss Mary Mayhew. This lady was born in Ohio and was the daughter of Laban Mayhew, a native of Kentucky, who moved first to Southern Ohio, then back to his native State and finally to McDonough County, Ill., where he engaged in farming until his death; he was of French descent.
In the spring of 1853 we find Josiah Terrel in Missouri and for two years thereafter he was established at Carthage, officiating as a missionary sent by the Illinois Conference. Later he was County Superintendent of Jasper and Barton counties, and was also Postmaster. He secured eighty acres of land, but gave most of his attention to his clerical duties. Through him the Western Conference was organized and the first meeting thereafter held at his house was presided over by Bishop Bright. He came to Kansas as a missionary and first established a church at Mound City, preaching the first sermon at Ft. Scott, also organizing a church there. He was elected Presiding Elder for eight years, then having suffered a stroke of paralysis retired from the ministry. In 1864 he purchased property in Lecompton and he had other property which he had accumulated while traveling around. His wife was an excellent manager and attended to the farm in his absence.
The Lane University at Lecompton while not organize by him was established largely through the instrumentality of Mr. Terrel. He stared in the drug business in that place, conducting it successfully and was also Postmaster. In 1866 he removed to Perry and was the first man to engage in the drug business there. He also organized a United Brethren Church, throwing his own house open for religious meetings of all kinds. From 1878 he live retired from active business.
The second wife of Mr. Terrel died in Perry in December 1867, at the age of forty eight years, and he was a third time married to Mrs. Minerva McBride. This lady was born in New York State and is still living, making her home in California with one of her daughters. Mr. Terrel spent the last three years with his daughter, Josephine, Mrs. J.R. Pendroy, and departed this life Sept. 14, 1887. His remains were laid to rest in the Perry cemetery, which he had assisted in purchasing and laying out.
He passed away honored and revered and his name will be held in kindly remembrance for many years to come. Politically, Mr. Terrel was a sound Republican and preached the abolition of slavery from the pulpit.
Of the first marriage of Mr. Terrel there were born seven children, viz: Enoch, William, Rebecca, John, Josiah, Sarah, Benjamin. The boys, with the exception of the last mentioned, who died at the age of two years, all served as solders in the Union Army. Of the second marriage there were born two children only: Josephine, (Mrs. J. R. Pendroy) a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume, and Mary, (Mrs. Gilfillin) of Perry.
FROM THE RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE, DAYTON OHIO, NOVEMBER 16, 1887:
....converted in Fulton County, Indiana, in 1841, receiving license in 1842, like a meteor blazing and burning, he swept Ohio, northern Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and into Kansas charge with electric fire from above. His words fell upon his audiences like thunderbolts, often prostrating fifty or one hundred in the same services. In preaching Christ and him crucified he found his highest delight as long as he was able; therefore, we cheerfully adopt the following resolutions:
Resolved, 1. That in the departure of Father Terrell we have lost a veteran in the ministry - a man called of God to preach, and who acquitted himself well.
2. While we would ever keep our brother with us, yet we meekly submit to the will of Him who doeth all things well.
3. We will keep in our hearts and prayers the dear children and friends Father Terrell has left behind, and pray that they and we may meet him in heaven.FROM OUR HEROES, OR UNITED BRETHREN HOME MISSIONARIES by W.M. Weekley and H. H. Fout, United Brethren Missionary Society, U.B. Building, Dayton Ohio, 1908:
Josiah Terrell moved to Kansas from southern Missouri in 1856, and joined himself to the handful of workers already on the ground. While preaching in Missouri he suffered many indignities at the hands of the Church's opposers, being threatened more than once with mod violence. But, like many of his contemporaries, he had given himself to the cause of human freedom, and to the work of the Church, and proposed to carry out the program at all hazard. His chivalry knew no fear; his zeal for the kingdom know no languor. Serving as presiding elder in Kansas for years he became well know and was loved by all the churches.
Though his support was pitifully small, and his privations manifold, he always took a hopeful view of things, and believed most implicitly in a sustaining and over-ruling Providence. One illustration will serve to show the true spirit of the man. One day, when traveling in company with missionary Cardwell, his horse mired as he entered a stream, and fell in the ice-cold water. The rider, however, with rare presence of mind, kept in the saddle, and when the horse finally came to his feet again, shouted at the top of his voice, "Glory to God for salvation." After riding many miles farther in his we clothes, in the face of a cold March wind, he preached with great power to a crowded house.
It may not be out of place, in this connection to give, briefly, the history of a church bell with which this pioneer had to do. While it may have but little relation to the general purpose of this book, it will, without doubt, interest the reader, as it has in it a touch both of the romantic and the pathetic.
On his way from General Conference in 1849, he purchased a bell in Cincinnati for a certain church in Illinois, and as he could get it for half-price paid for it himself. When the bell was put up he had a note made in the quarterly conference record to the effect that the property was his, and should be so recognized, until paid for. After a while the preaching-place was dropped, the church sold, and a law-suit instituted by certain parties to secure the bell. While the trial was in progress the real owner rode into town, and, hearing of what was going on, at once looked up the old quarterly-conference minutes, presented them to the court, and demanded the property, which was awarded him without hesitation. It 1854 he moved the bell in his wagon to Missouri, later to Mound City, Kansas, and finally to Lecompton, when he sold it to the Presbyterians for ninety dollars.
A few years passed and these people gave up their appointment here, and built in the town of Perry, north of the Kaw River, a mile and a half distant. Being in need of a bell they decided to transfer to the new church the one they had left in Lecompton, and accordingly sent for it. But the citizens of the little burg refused most positively to see it moved. They had paid for it, they said, and proposed to keep it. Nothing more was said for a time. Finally, the Fourth of July came around. The people of Lecompton were patriotic, and all went out to a grove a mile or two away to celebrate. Upon returning home in the evening they were greatly surprised to hear the clear tones of their venerable bell ringing out from the cupola of the Perry Presbyterian Church, it having been carried away in their absence, and without their knowledge.
This was not all. Father Terrell, in his last years moved to Perry and died there; and this same bell called the people to his funeral, which was conducted by Dr. G.M. Huffman (pastor at Lecompton) and tolled a solemn requiem as the procession started toward the place of burial.
ORGANIZATION OF THE KANSAS CONFERENCE
On the 30th of October, 1857, Bishop David Edwards organized the Kansas Conference in a sod house owned by S. S. Snyder. Other helpers, who will be noticed later, had come in by this time. Five ministers besides the Bishop and two laymen were present. The church membership was about two hundred. The following appointments were made: S. S. Snyder, presiding elder. Tecumseh, W.H. Cardwell; Big Springs, A.M. Thornton; Lawrence, S. Kretzinger; Prairie City, J.S. Gingerich; Upper Neosho, G. Perkins; Lower Neosho, A. Bixler; Fort Scott, J. Terrell; Ossawotamie, W. Huffman
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, VOL. II, by John Lawrence, Published at the United Brethren Printing Establishment, Sowers & King Publishers, Dayton, Ohio, 1861:(A camp meeting near Joseph Terrel's farm, 1841) Among the persons awakened at this meeting was Josiah Terrel, a man of considerable note in his neighborhood. Being one of Satan's recruiting officers, he delighted in sports of various kinds, played the violin well, and loved the dance. Drawn to the camp-meeting by curiosity, he was awakened, went forward to the altar, invited the attention of the people, and there made a public confession of his sinful life - expressed his determination to be a Christian, and then knelt as a penitent at the mourner's bench. While he spake, every eye was filled with tears; and after he knelt, his plaintive voice, pleading for mercy, could be distinctly heard above all other voices. But he did not find peace at the meeting. He requested Bro. Lamb, on the evening after the meeting closed, to preach at his house, which he did. During the meeting Mr. Terrel arose, confessed how he had been attached to the fiddle, and had taught his children and neighbors to dance, asked forgiveness of all, and then deliberately taking down the offending instrument of music, he cast it into the fire. Soon after he found salvation, and began to preach; and, we may add, he proved himself a chosen vessel of the Lord.
The Lord of the harvest now began more rapidly to multiply the laborers in this widening field. At a quarterly conference held on St. Joseph circuit, in 1842, Willam Davis, the presiding elder, organized a missionary movement which operated very favorably for the cause. Three men, Joseph Terrel, Josiah Terrel, and T. J. Babcoke, had obtained license to preach; and Mr. Davis informed them that he wished to employ them all as missionaries. He told them frankly that there was no missionary money to pay them - that they must depend upon the small sums given them by the people, looking for their principal reward in the world to come. They all consented, on these terms, to travel. Babcoke was sent toward Middleburg, Joseph Terrel toward Huntington, and Josiah to the region about Leesburg. Each of these missionaries, sent out from the quarterly conference by the presiding elder, was successful in planting the church in the new fields named.
More About REV. JOSIAH TERREL:
Age at Death (Facts Pg): 83 years , 21 days
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Perry, Kansas
Locations: (West) Virginia, Ohio, Indiana (1840 Census, Fulton. Co.), Illinois (1850 Census, Iroquois Co.), Missouri, Kansas
Medical Information: A memorial written about Josiah describes him as using cruthes in his later years.
Names (Facts Pg): Also Terrell
Occupation: Minister in the United Brethren Church; farmer
Religion: Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Minerva MCBRIDE was born about 1823 in New York. She died on 20 Sep 1892 in Colorado. Minerva married Rev. Josiah TERRILL on 3 Nov 1869 in Douglas Co., KS.
Joseph TERRILL [Parents] was born about 1809 in Virginia. He died in Indiana. Joseph married Caroline HANDLEY on 21 Apr 1831 in Champaign Co., OH.
FROM KINGMAN ATLAS, EXCERPTS REGARDING HENRY TOWNSHIP, FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA:
...the real history of the township begins with the advent of those who ere its pioneers in the true sense - who left homes in the older States and come here to clear farms and establish homes in the heart of the wilderness. Josiah Terrell, Joseph Terrell, William Biddle and Caleb Stradley, with their families were the first who came with this end in view. They located here in February, 1836, and during the same year were joined by others who identified themselves with the township in its earliest civilization, and with the improvements of later years......These settlers engaged at once in the usual labors of the pioneer, and erelong their presence was attested by many substantial improvements in the way of cleared fields and growing crops, though as yet their dwellings were the log cabins so universally characteristic of early days.
FROM THE UNION SPY NEWSPAPER, ROCHESTER, FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA April 18, 1872:
Some two or three weeks ago Joseph Terrell, a well-to-do-farmer, residing near Green Oaks, this County, eloped with a Mrs. Wheedon, the wife of one of his farm tenants. Terrell brought his own wife to town, and giving her $2,000, bade her a final adieu. Mrs. Terell is now living in the corporation, we understand. Her late spouse was something of a preacher....as to what branch of the church he belonged, we are not informed.
Wheedon, the lawful husband of the frail woman, died since his wife's departure, and was buried last Sunday. He was a drinking, shiftless fellow, and was frequently in jail on account of his bacchaulian propensities. It is said that Terrell used to bring his tenant to town, get him drunk, and then drive home alone and console Mrs. Wheedon. (Note: Joseph was about 64 years old at the time of this article.
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, VOL. II, By John Lawrence, Printed at the United Brethren Printing Establishment, Sowers & King Publishers, Dayton, Ohio, 1861:
[In 1834 Joseph Terrel, who, with his wife, was a member of the United Brethren church, emigrated to Fulton Co., Ind. For thirty miles of the way they surveyed and cut their own road through the wilderness. In the forests of Fulton county, with little society except Indians, who were numerous, they erected a family altar. Often did they speak of the happiness of other years, and pray that a minister of their own church might come to their neighborhood. The autumn after their arrival, "we heard," writes Mr. Terrel, "that four families had camped on the creek, about a mile from where we resided. I went to visit them; and the first person I saw was an aged lady on her knees, with both hands lifted up in prayer. With joy I hastened home to inform my wife." These persons proved to be Methodists; and soon a prayer-meeting was started at Mr. T.'s house. In the fall of 1839 John Talbert, as before stated, opened a mission in Fulton and adjoining counties. "One day," writes Mr. Terrel, "while plowing in my field, about twenty rods from the road, I saw a man riding along, who looked so much like a United Brethren minister, that I started toward him to hail him; but thinking I might be mistaken, I returned to my plow. The stranger passed on to the next house; and thinking, perhaps that the family he had passed were Brethren, made inquiry, and as a matter of course soon returned. He formed, at Terrel's, a class eight members. This was the first society planted in a region of country extending one hundred and fifty miles, north and south. These incidents are related to show ho great, often, are the religious wants of the pioneers of the church, how much they appreciate religious society, and especially the visits of their own ministers, and how greatly the morality of the country is indebted to them for the interest which they manifest in establishing institutions of Christianity.]
Locations: Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
Occupation: Minister in the United Brethren Church; farmer
Relationship: 1870, A servant, Elizabeth Allen, 36, is listed as a member of the household in the Census of 1870 (Indiana, Fulton Co., Rochester Twp.)
Religion: Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Caroline HANDLEY was born about 1814 in Maryland. She married Joseph TERRILL on 21 Apr 1831 in Champaign Co., OH.
They had the following children:
Adam BAYLOR was born about 1805. He died in 1839. Adam married Sarah TERRILL on 22 Feb 1827 in Champaign Co., OH.
Sarah TERRILL [Parents] was born about 1810 in Virginia. She died on 22 Apr 1841 in Illinois. Sarah married Adam BAYLOR on 22 Feb 1827 in Champaign Co., OH.
Four children were raised by an uncle living somewhere in Illinois.
Children of SARAH TERREL and ADAM BAYLOR are:
i. CATHERINE4 BAYLOR, b. 1828.
ii. JOSEPH BAYLOR, b. 1831.
iii. SARAH BAYLOR, b. 1833.
iv. DARIUS BAYLOR, b. 1835.
Dennis MOORE was born on 13 Oct 1805 in KY. He died on 2 May 1887 in Logansville, Logan Co., OH and was buried in Moore Cem., Pleasant Twp., Logan Co., OH. Dennis married Anna TERRILL on 19 Jul 1832 in Champaign Co., OH.
Children of ANNA TERREL and DENNIS MOORE are:
i. BENJAMIN4 MOORE, b. Abt. 1835; m. NANCY MILLER, July 22, 1855, Logan Co., Ohio.
ii. JAMES MOORE, b. Abt. 1836, Logan Co., Ohio; d. November 27, 1899, Logan Co., Ohio; m. LOUISA C. RUTHER, February 22, 1857, Logan Co., Ohio.More About JAMES MOORE:
Burial: Plum Creek Cemetery,
Relationships: Obituary said he had three sons, thus IV. and V. were addediii. SARAH MOORE, b. Abt. 1839; m. JOSEPH WILKINS, April 3, 1857, Logan Co., Ohio.
Notes for SARAH MOORE:
One researcher says this may not be the right Sarah Moore, the one married to Joseph Wilkens. According to the 1860 census, Sarah (Moore) Wilkens was 30 years old. Dennis and Anna Moore's daughter Anna would have been 21. The source of the error is not know at this time (03/08/99). -From Notes of Mark Cappello, Page 1 of the Descendants of Anna Terrel, Dec. 15, 1998.iv. MARION MOORE, b. Abt. 1841, Logan Co., Ohio; m. SARAH SUDY, May 19, 1863, Logan Co., Ohio.
More About SARAH SUDY:
Name (Facts Pg): The surname of Sarah is difficult to read on the orginal record. Possiblities are: Sudy, Suty, or Sully.v. JEPTHA MOORE, b. June 11, 1851, Logan Co., Ohio; d. September 4, 1852, Logan Co., Ohio.
More About JEPTHA MOORE: Burial: Moore Cemetery, Pleasant Twp., Logan Co. Ohio.
Anna TERRILL [Parents] was born on 4 Oct 1814 in Champaign Co., Ohio. She died on 19 May 1884 in Logan Co., Ohio and was buried in Moore Cem., Pleasant Twp., Logan Co., OH. Anna married Dennis MOORE on 19 Jul 1832 in Champaign Co., OH.
Birthdate: Another record shows June 6 ,1814, yet another October 04, 1813
Matthew TERRILL [Parents] was born in 1777 in Maryland. He died in 1821/1824. Matthew married Hudly JANE.
Hudly JANE was born in 1776 in Maryland. She died in Mar 1831. Hudly married Matthew TERRILL.
They had the following children:
M i William TERRILL was born on 5 Jan 1798 in Maryland. He died on 12 Aug 1889. M ii John TERRILL was born in 1800 in Maryland. M iii Jonathan TERRILL M iv James TERRILL was born on 1 Mar 1819 in Maryland. He died on 3 Apr 1819. M v Elijah TERRILL was born in 1820 in Maryland. M vi Alexander TERRILL F vii Polly TERRILL was born in 1821 in Maryland.
Jonathan TERRILL [Parents] was born in 1807 in Maryland. He died in 1873. Jonathan married Louisa.
Louisa was born about 1817. She married Jonathan TERRILL.
Alexander TERRILL [Parents] was born on 12 Jun 1820 in Maryland. He died on 3 Nov 1858. Alexander married Nancy.
Nancy was born about 1829. She married Alexander TERRILL.
Benjamin Franklin MARTIN was born in 1831. He married Julia Ann PHILLIPS in 1854.
Julia Ann PHILLIPS [Parents] was born in 1830. She married Benjamin Franklin MARTIN in 1854.
They had the following children:
F i Grace Agatha MARTIN