Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Terrell, David J. 1850 - 
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DAVID J. TERRELL.

    Standing for upright manhood and progressive citizenship the subject of this
sketch has long occupied a conspicuous place among the representatives of the
great agricultural interest of Indiana and his influence in every relation of
life has made for the material advancement of the community in which he resides
and the moral welfare of those with whom he has been brought into contact. David
J. Terrell comes of an old and highly esteemed Ohio family, the genealogy of
which is traceable to an early period in the history of that commonwealth, the
first mention of the name occurring in Highland county, where Richmond Terrell,
the subject's father, was born and reared, the ancestral home being near the
town of Lexington. Maria M. Hansell, wife of Richmond F. Terrell and mother of
the subject, was also a native of Highland county, and her father, a farmer by
occupation and a most excellent and praiseworthy citizen, spent his life there,
dying a number of years ago at his home near the above seat of justice, at the
advanced age of seventy-five.

    The subject's father was early left an orphan and after the death of his
parents became an inmate of the home of his cousin, with whom he lived until
young- manhood, the meantime serving an apprenticeship at the trade of cabinet
making, which he followed for a number of years in his native state,
subsequently discontinuing mechanical work to engage in the pursuit of
agriculture. In 1851 he disposed of his interests in Ohio and moved to Howard
county, Indiana, purchasing a partially improved farm, which in due time he
brought to a high state of cultivation and on which he continued to reside until
his death, at the age of seventy-eight years. Richmond F. Terrell was a man of
excellent traits, upright in all his dealings and his life was filled to
repletion with good to his fellow men. He was reared in the faith of the society
of Friends, but some time after his marriage he united with the Methodist
church, of which his wife was a member, and continued in that communion until
her death, when he returned to his former belief and to the end of his days
remained loyal to its teaching. Mrs. Terrell, whose death occurred at the age of
fifty-two, bore her husband ten children, five sons and five daughters, the
father living to see all of them married and well settled in life. One of the
sons, John H., was a soldier in the Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry, in the Civil
war and gave nearly four years to the service of his country, during which time
he took part in a number of bloody battles and for meritorious conduct rose from
the ranks to the position of adjutant of his regiment, filling the intermediate
offices with credit to himself and to the honor of his command.

    David J. Terrell is a native of Highland county, Ohio, where he was born
June 11, 1850. He spent his childhood and youth on the family homestead near the
town of Lexington and in 1851 accompanied his parents upon their removal to
Indiana, since which time he has been an honored resident of Howard county. In
due time he entered the district school, not far from his home, and continued
his attendance at the same until obtaining a knowledge of the branches
constituting the regular course of study, meanwhile devoting the spring and
summer seasons to farm labor, at which he was able to make a full hand at a
comparatively early age. He remained with his father assisting in the
cultivation of the home place until his twenty-sixth year, when he purchased a
small farm of his own in Center township to which he at once removed, and which
under his efficient labors and excellent management soon became one of the best
cultivated and most highly improved places in the township. He still owns his
original purchase, but has increased his holdings from time to time until he now
owns several valuable tracts of land, the greater part thoroughly drained and
otherwise well improved, the general appearance of the lands indicating the
presence of a master of agriculture who aims to keep freely abreast in all
matters relating to his vocation.

    In the year 1900 Mr. Terrell turned his farm over to other hands and moved
to Kokomo, where he maintained a residence until the fall of 1905, when he
returned to the country and took possession of a beautiful farm adjoining his
own in Taylor township, which came to his wife through her parents, and on which
he has since lived and prospered. Since resuming agricultural pursuits he has
made a number of valuable improvements on his place, adding much to its beauty
and attractiveness, and it now is con-ceded that he has one of the best and most
desirable rural homes in Taylor township, the land being enclosed with wire
fence and well tiled. all but fifteen acres being suceptible to a high state of
cultivation. Although giving personal attention to his farming interests and
looking carefully after the management of his lands, Mr. Terrell does little
physical work, his son-in-law attending to the active operation of the farm,
which yields an income sufficiently ample to maintain his own and the latter's
family in comfortable circumstances.

    As already indicated, Mr. Terrell has devoted much study to the science of
agriculture and easily is the peer of any farmer in the county, being
progressive in his methods and making use of the latest and most approved
implements and appliances by menas [sic] of which the labors of the farm are not
only greatly lessened, but made much more effective and economical. He also
keeps in touch with the trend of current events, takes an active interest in the
public and political issues of the day, and as a Republican wields a strong
influence for his party, being one of its leaders in the township in which he
resides.

     On October 12, 1876, Mr. Terrell was united in marriage with Julia A. Neal,
daughter of Enos and Margaret A. (Fauchier) Neal, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Neal was
of French lineage, her grandfather Fauchier having been born in Marseilles,
France, in the year, 1766, and Martha D., his wife, born in New Hampshire in
1780, and their marriage occurred on September 23, 1798, in the city of Boston,
Massachusetts. John B. Fauchier, the grandfather of Mrs. Neal was born in
Suffolk, Massachusetts, in 1799, married in December, 1823, to Sarah Broyles. of
Kentucky, and became the father of fifteen children. Enos Neal, father of Mrs.
Terrell, was born May 23, 1835, in Miami county, Ohio, came to Howard county in
1851, was married on August 8, 1858, to Margaret Fauchier, who departed this
life in August, 1900, his death occurring in Kokomo, February 12, 1905, at the
age of seventy years.

    Mr. and Mrs. Terrell have two children living, the older being Oma May, who
was born in the year 1878, and who is now the wife of John E. Harland, and the
mother of three offspring. Charles F., the second of the family, was born March
16, 1882. He too is married and the father of two children, his home at this
time being in Chicago.

    Mr. Terrell is well situated to enjoy the material comforts with which
fortune has blessed him and stands high among the citizens of the community in
which he lives. He belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, aside from which he
is identified with no fraternal organization, his greatest satisfaction being in
the quiet life he leads as a prosperous and contented tiller of the soil and in
the mutually agreeable domestic ties which make home the happiest and most
attractive spot on earth to one of his tastes and ideals.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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