Edwin Terrell - I7165 - Individual Information

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Edwin Terrell ‎(I7165)‎

Given Names: Edwin
Surname: Terrell

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 1845

16 Kentucky, USA
Death: 13 December 1868 ‎(Age 23)‎ Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA

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Birth	1845 16 Kentucky, USA
Census	1850 ‎(Age 5)‎ Shelby County, Kentucky, USA Source: 1850 United States Federal Census Citation Details: "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch ‎(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M652-MDH : accessed 14 April 2015)‎, R C Terrell, Shelby county, Shelby, Kentucky, United States; citing family 97, NARA microfilm publication M432 ‎(Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)‎. Text: Name: R C Terrell Event Type: Census Event Year: 1850 Event Place: Shelby county, Shelby, Kentucky, United States Gender: Male Age: 30 Race: White Birth Year ‎(Estimated)‎: 1820 Birthplace: Kentucky House Number: 88 Household Role Gender Age Birthplace R C Terrell M 30 Kentucky Martha Terrell F 23 Kentucky Robert Terrell M 7 Kentucky Edwin Terrell M 5 Kentucky Maryann Terrell F 3 Kentucky John Terrell M 1 Kentucky Household ID: 97 , Line Number: 12 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration ‎(NARA)‎ , Affiliate Publication Number: M432 , Affiliate Film Number: 218 , GS Film Number: 442986 , Digital Folder Number: 004192508 , Image Number: 00160
Death	13 December 1868 ‎(Age 23)‎ Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA Source: Newspaper Article Citation Details: "Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla", Date: Thursday, December 17, 1868 Paper: New York Herald ‎(New York, NY)‎ Volume: XXXIII Issue: 352 Page: 11 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004.Source: GenealogyBank.com Text: Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla ____________________________ ‎[From the Louisville Democrat, Dec. 14]‎ At about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning one of the most terrible bushwhackers that figured on either side during the war breathed his last at our city hospital. The noted Captain Ed. Terrell is no more.
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Parents Family (F2984)
Father	Richard Coleman "RC" Terrell -
Mother	Martha Baker 1829 -
Brother	Robert Terrell 1843 -
	Edwin Terrell 1845 - 1868
Sister	Margaret Terrell 1847 -
Brother	John Terrell 1849 -
Sister	Alice Terrell 1851 - 1925

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Newspaper Article about the life and death of Ed Terrell:

"Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla", Date: Thursday, December 17, 1868 Paper: New York Herald ‎(New York, NY)‎ Volume: XXXIII Issue: 352 Page: 11 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004.Source: GenealogyBank.com

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Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla
____________________________
‎[From the Louisville Democrat, Dec. 14]‎
At about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning
one of the most terrible bushwhackers that figured
on either side during the war breathed his last at
our city hospital. The noted Captain Ed. Terrell is
no more. These words will cause a feeling of relief
to hundreds of good men in Shelby and other coun-
ties in this State. He was, without doubt, one of the
most heartless and wicked men that has figured in
this age. It is believed by those who know whereof
they speak that Ed. Terrell murdered no less than
twenty men during his life. He was conspicuous in
both the Confederate and federal armies.
At the breathing out of the war he enlisted in the
Dixie Guards, a company commanded by Jack
Thompson, of Owensboro, which was mustered into
the First Kentucky ‎(Confederate)‎ regiment. He
afterwards joined General Morgan's command, from
which he deserted in 1863, and turned up as captain
of a company of independent ‎(federal)‎ scouts. It
will be remembered that it was Captain Ed. Terrell
who murdered Hercules Walker in 1864 on his farm,
a few miles from the city, on the Preston street road.
Terrell road up to the house of Walker and inquired
for him. Walker's wife called him from his work in
the field, and, upon his coming up to the door,
Terrell deliberately shot him down without uttering
a word. He said at the time that he had a com-
mission to kill ten men, and Walker was the first of
the number. After committing this bloody deed the
desperado rode off in search of new victims.
He also murdered Ennis Wood, an industrious and
worthy blacksmith, at Taylorsville, in Spencer coun-
ty. Terrell had got a number of horses shod, and
upon being asked by Wood who was to pay for the
work, he became enraged and shot the poor man
down in cold blood.
In 1864 he murdered Mr. Johnson, a worthy citizen
of Indiana, who came to Kentucky with a drove of
cattle, which he had sold and for which he had re-
ceived the money. Terrell decoyed the unsuspecting
drover out a few miles from Shelbyville, when he
knocked him on the head, stripped the body
of what money was upon it and then threw
it in the Clear creek, where it was discovered
and the crime traced to Terrell. He was
indicted and lay in jail for a long time,
until he broke out, and shortly afterwards visited
Shelbyville with his gang. He was attacked by a
posse of citizens and fairly riddled with bullets, yet
his time had not come for death. He lived, but in a
very crippled condition. He was afterward cap-
tured, but by some machination got released on his
own bond.
On one occasion, we are told, he was courting a
beautiful girl. Her brother had come into the par-
lor and was introduced to Terrell. The young man
had on a fine pair of new boots. Terrell set his af-
fections upon them, and on that same night shot and
killed the young man for the sole purpose of getting
his boots. Terrell afterwards boasted of this ex-
ploit. His trail was marked with the blood of his
innocent victims throughout the war, and long after
its close.
While on the Confederate side he was a boon com-
panion of Sue Munday and Champ Ferguson. He
was outlawed by all Confederate forces, and bush-
whacked on his own hook for plunder, until he got
into the federal camp. He then obtained a roving
commission and commenced his bloody career anew,
killing the friends with whom he had camped and
fought in a common cause.
About three months ago Terrell was shot and
wounded, in five or six places, by a brother-in-law,
whom he had grossly wronged. This, we believe,
finished his career, so far as spilling blood was con-
cerned. Some two months ago he was brought to
the Louisville City Hospital, where he lingered in
great agony, until death came to his relief. He was
a terror to the people of Shelby county and other
localities in Kentucky. Thus has passed away one
of the last of the monstrous desperadoes to whom
the war gave birth.

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Census	1850 United States Federal Census Citation Details: "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch ‎(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M652-MDH : accessed 14 April 2015)‎, R C Terrell, Shelby county, Shelby, Kentucky, United States; citing family 97, NARA microfilm publication M432 ‎(Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)‎. Text: Name: R C Terrell Event Type: Census Event Year: 1850 Event Place: Shelby county, Shelby, Kentucky, United States Gender: Male Age: 30 Race: White Birth Year ‎(Estimated)‎: 1820 Birthplace: Kentucky House Number: 88 Household Role Gender Age Birthplace R C Terrell M 30 Kentucky Martha Terrell F 23 Kentucky Robert Terrell M 7 Kentucky Edwin Terrell M 5 Kentucky Maryann Terrell F 3 Kentucky John Terrell M 1 Kentucky Household ID: 97 , Line Number: 12 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration ‎(NARA)‎ , Affiliate Publication Number: M432 , Affiliate Film Number: 218 , GS Film Number: 442986 , Digital Folder Number: 004192508 , Image Number: 00160
Death	Newspaper Article Citation Details: "Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla", Date: Thursday, December 17, 1868 Paper: New York Herald ‎(New York, NY)‎ Volume: XXXIII Issue: 352 Page: 11 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004.Source: GenealogyBank.com Text: Death of a Noted Kentucky Guerilla ____________________________ ‎[From the Louisville Democrat, Dec. 14]‎ At about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning one of the most terrible bushwhackers that figured on either side during the war breathed his last at our city hospital. The noted Captain Ed. Terrell is no more.

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Multimedia Object	Terrell Edwin Face Photo ‎(M358)‎ Type: Photo
Multimedia Object	Terrell Edwin Full Body ‎(M357)‎ Type: Photo Source: Portrait or Photo Citation Details: Photo Courtesy of the descendants of Howard Juber Gray, 2015. Text: Edwin Terrell, circa 1860s.