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Tom Terrell was born in Kentucky circa 1835, a slave of Jonathan Wilson Terrell & his wife Azalea Johnson. He came to Texas in 1844 when the land that is now Kaufman County was still the Republic of Texas. Azalea Johnson Terrell died and J W Terrell remarried Nancy Amelia Love in 1854. J O Terrell, the writer of the tribute below, was born in 1856. As J O Terrell states his father died in 1861, and by his own account Tom Terrell was J O Terrell's father figure, teaching him all he need to know about becoming a man. Tom Terrell died August 9, 1904. At this writing, July 2002, it is not known where he was buried, nor anything about his family. He was a true Pioneer of Kaufman County. Obituary of Tom Terrell Tom Terrell, a good old colored man of the ante-bellum days, died last evening at his home west of the city, aged 69 years. Uncle Tom came to Texas from Kentucky in 1846 with J. O. Terrell, father of J. O. Terrell, of San Antonio, and Mrs. A. H. Ables of this city. He was a man of many sterling qualities and held the esteem of all the white people who knew him. He was buried this afternoon. Tribute to Tom Terrell
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Note from CoordinatorIn 1880, he was living in Terrell with his family: |
