Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Mary Ann Terry ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Mary Ann Terry Mary Ann Terry, two years, seven months, and thirteen days, died on May 13, 1932, at 3:45, from accidental arsenic poisoning (rat poison) in the home. She was born on December 27, 1930, in Hunt County, Texas, the daughter of W. C. Terry of Texas and Alma Dunlap of Texas. The informant was W. C. Terry at 4720 South Wesley Street, Greenville, Texas. Burial was made on May 14, 1932, in Greenville at Forest Park Cemetery. (21881) *Not sure the third digit is an eight (?). SEE ADDITIONAL BELOW: Nathaniel W. McCasland, the grandson of Emmye Louise Medlin Johnson, told me that there was a clipping of a two-year old girl's death by swallowing a poison. I could just see the little girl drinking from the bottle, thirsty, thinking it was refreshing for the first swallow or two. There was no date on the clipping. I have found the death certificate. Dear Classmates, I have heard from Nathaniel W. McCasland again. He has found a perfect postcard picture of Mary Anne Terry at six months of age. She died before her third birthday from accidental poisoning. He said when he found the picture, "It was almost creepy to me." I have decided to look into the Terry name a little closer. One of the early Hunt County researchers was Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire. You will see her name often, if doing Hunt County work. In her printed and hardbound collection on page sixty-six, she wrote, "The Hogeye Cemetery, also on the James F. Terry land survey, was donated to the town of Celeste. A Mr. Balthrop, an early settler of Hunt, was the first to be buried in the cemetery in 1853 (do we know where his grave is?) Americus V. Terry, son and first child of James F. Terry and his second wife, Catherine Boles, was the first Civil War soldier buried in this cemetery and was said to have been the first causality from Hunt County. (p. 66, Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas Vol 1.) ---