Jessie (Tidrick) Terrill (1919)
PHILLIPS, TERRILL, TIDRICK
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 8/13/2006 at 20:25:07
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 29, 1919JESSIE TIDRICK TERRILL
Jessie Tidrick Terrill, daughter of Miller R. and Mary A. Tidrick was born in Winterset, Iowa, Sept. 19, 1865 and died Wednesday, January 15th, 1919 at 11 o'clock and was buried at 3 p.m. on January 17th.
She was educated in the Winterset public school graduating from the high school in 1881. She then attended Parsons college at Fairfield for one year. Soon after this she spent a year in Florida.
She was married to Robert B. Terrill Sept. 15, 1886. Seven children were born to them, Mortimer, a civil engineer in Omaha; Lee M., a religious work director in the Detroit Y.M.C.A., Bernice, who is teaching in the Winterset Public schools; Mrs. Gertrude Phillips, who is now living on a farm near Winterset; Charles, with the 23rd Engineeering Corps in France; and Eugene and Lanning, who are still at home.
She was a devoted, self-sacrificing wife and mother. Her earlier married years were almost entirely devoted to her family. She was ever working and planning that her children might have a higher education to fit themselves for larger usefulness, and she was able to see four of her five older children get some college education. In the last few years she has taken an active interest in the Woman's Club.
She joined the First Presbyterian church of Winterset when a very young girl and was ever a faithful member, taking an active interest in the prayer meetings, the Ladies Aid and the missionary society.
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