Emerson Gillett (T-1892) TERRY

GEDCOM Note

- According to, Emerson Gillett died on 4/2/1933 whereas lists his date of death as 4/4/1933.

Emerson and Sarah (Parmelee) Terry were possibly divorced.

OCCUPATION: "E. Ing. Co." as of 1891. "E.N. Welch Mfg. Co. as of 1893 and its successor, the Sessions Clock Company "Emerson worked in Winstead, CT in a clock shop at the age of sixteen, at the same time as his father [Ralph].".

RESIDENCE: 54 Middle Street, or "Bds Middle n Pine" as of 1891 and as of 1893. Removed to New Haven, CT as of 1895. As of 1903 was boarding on Riverside Avenue, Bristol, CT ; in 1904 was boarding on Main Street, Forestville, CT ; as of 3/4/1930 lived at #387 Pine Street, Forestville, CT (Pine Street House owned and mortgaged)

FUNERAL: His funeral was held at 2:30 p.m. at 54 Middle Street, Bristol, CT.

CAUSE OF DEATH: 'Carcinoma of toryne' and 'Inability to take food - senility'

OTHER PROPERTY OWNED:
On July 3, 1914, Grantors Emerson G. Terry and Isabelle deed in favor of Grantee The Bristol Savings Bank for three hundred dollars for land described as follows:
“One certain piece of land in the village of Forestville, in said town of Bristol, as deeded to Isabelle L. Terry October 4, 1904 by Robert J. Doyle, deed on Bristol Land Records, Volume 63, Page 337, together with the dwelling house and all improvements thereon, and bounded southerly 258 feet on Pine Street, westerly 295.5 feet on open passway, northerly 272.5 feet on lands of John Ginchauskis and James B. Doyle, and easterly on land of James B. Doyle.”
Source: Emerson G. Terry and Isabelle L. Terry to The Bristol Savings Bank, Vol. 78, Page 329, July 3, 1914, Land Records, Bristol, Connecticut Town Clerk’s Office.

On December 16, 1926, Grantor Emerson G. Terry and Isabelle L. Terry, husband and wide of Bristol executed a mortgage deed in favor of Grantee The Bristol Savings Bank for three hundred dollars for land described as follows:
“One certain piece of land in the village of Forestville, in said town of Bristol, with the dwelling house and all improvements thereon, bounded -- SOUTHERLY 258 feet on Pine Street, WESTERLY 295.5 feet on open passway, NORTHERLY 272.5 feet on land of Lewan and Mary Zentarski, and EASTERLY on land of Fred Carroll Annis.

Source: Emerson G. Terry and Isabelle L. Terry to The Bristol Savings Bank, Vol. 127, Page 437, December 16, 1926, Land Records, Bristol, Connecticut Town Clerk’s Office.

"The Emerson G. (Emerson Gillett Terry)and Isabella (Isabella Lucinda (Williams) Terry) Terry property was formerly at 387 Pine Street." (Bristol, Ct.)

Following are excerpts from reminiscences written in 1934 by Isabelle Webster (Terry) Fletcher (1878-1971) daughter of Franklin Ensign Terry.
Franklin Ensign Terry was born 1845 in this house (the Samuel Terry homestead). In two years his parents moved ot the little house on Preston Street, Forestville (where the Prestons lived when I [Isebelle] was a girl. Auntie Anna [Anna Marie (Terry) Chase] was born there and when she was three years old they moved back to this house again, where Papa lived until he died in 1926 on his birthday July 7. They always said he was a tall and slim lad, at times almost delicate looking, but I never heard that he had any serious illness...
My great grandfather (Samuel Terry) bought this house in 1828, and they made some alterations just what I do not know as the Botsfords changed it some too. I think he tore out the big chimney and did away with the old fireplaces which were in each front room and in the old long dining room. The chimney went up in the front hall. After this was taken out the chimney only came up in to the garret and stove pipes had to go through the bedrooms to the attic chimney. This had some advantages as they warmed the rooms they passed through.
Samuel Terry was a brother of Eli Terry the clock maker. He worked with his brother at one time and later made clocks in his own factory also. At one time he made clocks down here near the river in what we called the old red shop (although I never saw the original building which burned down before I was born). He made the first clock in the Congregational Church tower. Grandpa Terry (Ralph) [was] also down in what was once the old Andrews shop near the river just off Preston St., Forestville. At one time Samuel Terry's children lived around here in various houses. Samuel Terry Jr. lived in the Beach Lumber Company's house - Edward in Daly's - John in the Hume place - Theodore in the old Mitchel place with the pillars and one over on Pine St. where the Garey's lived...
Papa worked in the old Welch Clock shop which stood near the railroad tracks near the Forestville station. He turned pinions for a long while and thoroughly understood a clock movement. Mr. Henry Bancroft and also his father...
At the time I was married June 2, 1897 Papa was working in Winsted, [sic] Connecticut in the clock shop. His father had worked there years before and had been foreman of the movements department. Emerson (Terry) also worked there at the same time as his father at the age of sixteen. Papa had been out of work here in Forestville for a long time. There was a great depression...
Grandpa Terry could always fix most anything that got out of order and also make new things and he always had the tools to do it. If he did not have them he could make them. There have been many tools here in the place that were homemade. Papa was the same way, he could do almost anything and was very particular...
Papa and Mamma were married Aug. 2, 1870 eight years later Jan. 6, 1878 I came to town...
In 1893 March Fred [Fletcher, Isabella's future husband] came East stopping at the World's Fair Grounds. The Fair had not yet opened. He came to work for his Uncle Samuel Monce who owned a business conducted in the old shop which stood near the river where the Bell shop formerly stood. The Bell shop was dismantled last year (1933). He was twenty years old...It was not until 1895 or so that I began to keep company with Fred...After graduating I became formally engaged and after a year I was married, June 2, 1897, here at home in the South Parlor, the same room in which my Great Grandmother Hubbell had been married...
The factory [old shop near the river noted above] had burned down in Bristol and his uncle had moved the business to his own factory in Unionville. We lived in Unionville three years. Arthur was born there on April 15, 1898 in the house on Farmington Ave. owned by Mr. Freeborn Alger, I have pleasant recollections of my home there and I made many friends...
In 1900 Mamma was hurt by our horse and that year I came back to Bristol to take care of her eventually we moved here for Fred was dissatisfied in the way his uncle treated him in the business. He was only getting two dollars a day when we were married and he had only one raise after that of twenty-five cents.
Fred had been inventing a new glass cutter with interchangeable wheels. This he offered to his Uncle but got no encouragement in regard to his adopting it. Fred wanted to go into business for himself and after coming back home to live Papa got Fred a position in the clock shop in Forestville. In the fall of 1901 and into 1901 Fred started a business in the upper barn here on the place. He worked nights here and held his place at the clock shop. Then he had to get someone to work here all the time. These were bad years for him and he had to work hard chores and all made him busy.
Papa was working at the Clock Shop too and it was about this time or a little later that Mr. Sessions gave Papa a good position. Superintendent of the Movement department. At last Papa was working so many years at the bench (all at clock work) had a good position and one he was perfectly capable of filling efficiently. He thoroughly understood clock movements both how to make them and making them run. He could always fix a clock.
He held his position until several years later when he resigned and gave all his time to our own business which had been organized and run under the name "The Fletcher-Terry Co." It was a long hard pull in those years and Fred had to work very hard.
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