Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

WILLIAM H. TERRELL, M.D., was born in Woodford County, this State,
September 11, 1840, and is a son of William H. and Lucinda (Wilcox) Terrell
natives of Virginia.  The former was a physician and graduated from Ohio
Medical College in 1821.  He served in the Black Hawk war, and was chief
Surgeon of an Illinois brigade.  After the war he returned to Versailles,
Woodford County, Ky., where he had located in 1815, and where he practiced
medicine until his death in 1864.  His wife died in 1851.  Four children
survive their parents, two sons and two daughters.  The sons are Luke W.
and the subject of this sketch.  The latter was reared in Woodford County,
and educated in the private schools of the county.  He volunteered, in
1862, in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, Col. D. Howard Smith, C. S.A.,
Morgan's command, and served three years.  In 1866 he came to Louisville,
and read medicine under the guidance of Dr. Adam Given.  He graduated
from the medical department of the University of Louisville in March,
1875, and at once entered upon practice.  He was married in 1867 to Mrs.
Bonney Cotton, a native of Yazoo County, Miss.  They have no children.

Terrell Wilcox Given Cotton
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Versailles-Woodford-KY Yazoo-MS VA

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