Nellie Blair Woodburn Terry

Nellie Blair Woodburn was born 3 July 1875, in Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, the seventh child and second daughter of Samuel & Sarah Connor Woodburn.

She met and married a traveling salesman, Frank M. Terry, on 16 Sep 1897, just weeks after her mother’s passing, in Princeton. They had no children. They lived in the family home with their father and sister Mary.

Frank died in Rockport, Indiana, on business, 10 July 1926 (he was born in New York in 1878). Upon Mary's death Nellie took ownership of the family home, at 704 North Main Street, until her passing, 16 Aug 1960, in Princeton. She is burried at I.O.OF. cemetary.

The following is the obituary published in the Princeton Daily Clarion, 17 August, 1960:

Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Blair Terry, 714 N. Main, Princeton, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Colvin Chapel. The Rev. Elmon Ward will officiate. Burial follows in Warnock Cemetary.

Mrs. Terry died at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the home of a niece, Mrs. Marsahll Mason, two and one-half miles east of Princeton. She had been ill three months.

Mrs. Terry was born and spent her entire lifetime in Princeton. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Mrs. Harry Woodburn, east of Princeton, and several other nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m., Wednesday.

The photograph in this post is of Frank M. Terry, c. 1900.