TERRELL, JOHN DABNEY, surveyor and planter, was born about 1760, at Hanover Court House, Hanover County, Va., deceased; son of Harry and Anne (Dabney) Terrell, the former who was a native of Hanover Court House, Va_, and resided in Virginia, and in North and South Carolina; grandson of Joel Terrell, who lived in Hanover County, and of Cornelius and Sarah (Jennings) Dabney, who lived in Hanover County, Va., the former who was a veteran of the Revolutionary War; great-grandson of William and Susanna Terrell; nephew of David, Joel, and Pete Terrell; great nephew of Henry Terrell; and a relative of Alexander Terrell of Austin, Tex., ex-minister to Turkey, of Edwin H. Terrell of San Antonio, Tex., ex-minister to Belgium, and of Joseph W. Terrell, ex-governor of Georgia. He was a surveyor and planter, and helped to survey the Chickasaw land in Alabama and Mississippi. He was a member of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1819, and was county judge of Marion County. He was a Whig and a Baptist. Married: to Elizabeth Warren of North Carolina. Children: 1. Edward Garland, m. Rachael Land of Georgia, both of whom died and are buried near Military Ford on the Buttahatchie, and whose descendants live near Hamilton; 2. James, m. A. Hughes, who died at Dangerfield, Tex., and whose descendants live near there; 3. William Henry, lived and died in Noxubee County, Miss., and who was disinherited because he was a Presbyterian and a Democrat; 4. John Dabney, Jr. (q. v.); 5. Sarah, m. (1) Harvey Tuttle, deceased, who was a lawyer from Vermont, county clerk of Martin County, and whose descendants live at Chickasha and Minco, Okla., (2) Judge Harvey, child, Henry Harvey, who lived near Dangerfield, Tex.: 6. Eliza, m. a Mr. Smith of Chickasaw Co., Miss., both deceased; 7. Bocia, m. Robert Clark, they lived, died and were buried at Fulton Bridge on the Buttahatchie. and their descendants reside at Hamilton; 8. Alpha, m. J. T. Neal, a veteran of the War of 1812, and the son of Thomas Neal, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, who lived and died on their farm at Neal's Ferry, and whose descendants reside near Commerce, Tex.; 9. Sarah, m. James Bankhead, and lived and died three miles west of Sulligent. Last residence: Pikeville.
