William R. Terry
William R. Terry was born in Bedford County, Virginia, United States on March 12th, 1827 and is the Confederate Army General. At the age of 70, William R. Terry biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Terry then returned home to help his father with the farm, but the 1850 census listed his occupation as "merchant". His father had for years been a prominent citizen of Bedford County, and helped get the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through the town, owned the only steam mill (a factory that employed 7 or 8 men and made parts for agricultural implements), served as a justice of the peace and advocated for education, although at least one local historian failed to distinguish between the two men. In the 1850 federal census, the elder Terry owned 52 enslaved people. Ten years later, Terry owned a 20 year old Black woman in town, and his father (after dowries to his daughters) only owned 20 enslaved people. One author noted that prices for "Negroes" increased after March 1855, and specifically compared the average amount from the sale of the 42 slaves in William Terry's estate ($752) and that at the 1859-1860 auction of the estate of A. Turner where adult males sold for $1,750 each and females also well above $750.
Postwar career
Following the war, Terry returned to Bedford County and was elected and re-elected to the Virginia Senate, serving for a total of eight years, beginning in the first session after adoption of the Virginia Constitution of 1868. He was also Master of the Liberty Masonic Lodge (1871-1872).
Terry moved with his family to Chesterfield County around 1880. He also served briefly as a prison superintendent of the State Penitentiary. He was in charge of the Robert E. Lee Camp of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Richmond, Virginia, from 1886 until 1893.