Chatman D. Terry
1858 - 1938 (79 years)-
Name Chatman D. Terry Born 22 Oct 1858 , , New York, United States 
Gender Male Died 8 Oct 1938 Person ID I29661 Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23 Last Modified 5 Jun 2022
Family Clara Harriet Young, b. 2 Mar 1861, , , New York, United States , d. 12 Apr 1955 (Age 94 years) Married 22 Nov 1882 Laurel, Suffolk, New York, United States Notes - by Reverend Downs of Northville, Suffolk, NewYork
Children 1. Beatrice Young Terry, b. 22 Nov 1902, East Moriches, Suffolk, New York, United States , d. 14 Sep 1950, Center Moriches Cemetery-Center Moriches, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 47 years)Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 Family ID F10943 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - News story, Patchogue Advance, Feb. 14, 1902: " Presence of mind saved the house of C.D. Terry of East Moriches last Saturday morning from destruction by fire. Mr Terry, in response to the cries of Mrs Terry, ran up the stairs to the room and on seeing the stove on fire pulled off his overcoat and wrapped it around the stove and then threw both out a window. The stove struck on a piazza and set that afire, also, but prompt work extinguished both fires."
Mr Terry was a charter member of the East Moriches Fire Dept. The house in question must have been the one that stood next to his butcher shop on Main St. (still in existence 2002). At some point he sold this house to Mr Brooks and the butcher shop to Mr Bedson (or at least Bedson had it when I was 5 years old.) The family moved to the Poughkeepsie, NY area and made friends with a Tallman family. At some point they moved back and CD evidently built a house just west of the old one. It had central heating while the old one did not. The Tallmans used to visit here in the 1930s.
My Mother, Beatrice was evidently born in the old house November 1902. Photographs of her as a baby and toddler were taken there. She was married in 1920 so the time between 1904 or so and 1918 they must have been upstate.
- News story, Patchogue Advance, Feb. 14, 1902: " Presence of mind saved the house of C.D. Terry of East Moriches last Saturday morning from destruction by fire. Mr Terry, in response to the cries of Mrs Terry, ran up the stairs to the room and on seeing the stove on fire pulled off his overcoat and wrapped it around the stove and then threw both out a window. The stove struck on a piazza and set that afire, also, but prompt work extinguished both fires."