Arvia Lewis Terry
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 727

Arvia Lewis Terry, clerk of the board of supervisors of 
Graham County was born in Pontiac Michigan, September 29, 
1875.  He is a son of L.W. and Alice (Cowles) Terry, the 
former a native of Michigan, the latter of Ohio.  They 
now make their home in Memphis Tennessee, where the father 
is a contractor and builder.  In their family were six 
children: Edith, widow of Charles Hunt, of Memphis; Arvia 
Lewis of this review; Alton N. of Morenci Arizona; Blanche, 
wife of B.G. Polk of Buffalo, New York; Archie, resident of 
Memphis Tennessee and Laura, wife of A.B. Bills of Memphis.

When Arvia Terry was ten his parents moved to Memphis and 
he acquired his education there until he was seventeen.  
He became interested in journalism and worked on the 
Commercial-Appeal of Memphis until he was twenty when 
he became connected with the Atlantic and Pacific Tea 
Company.  After twelve years in 1907 he came to Arizona 
working first in the store department of the Detroit 
Copper Company in Clifton.  On February 14, 1912 he was 
elected clerk of the board of supervisors of Greenlee 
County and has since served in that office.

On February 7, 1905 Mr. Terry married Miss Annie Saunders, 
a native of Tennessee and a daughter of J.Y. and Annie 
(McNeill)Saunders, the former of whom has passed away.  
He was for some time a prominent merchant in Tennessee 
and afterwards became a resident of Arkansas where he 
served for four years as treasurer of Jefferson County.  
His widow makes her home in Little Rock.  In their 
family were four children besides Mrs. Terry: J.Y. Jr, 
resident of Little Rock; Myrtle, wife of D.M. Peters of 
Columbus Mississippi; and John and McNeill who reside in 
Morenci Arizona.


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