David S. Terry

Terry was born in Todd County, Kentucky.{{cite book |last=Shuck |first=Oscar Tully |url=https://archive.org/details/benchandbarinca00shucgoog |quote=David S. Terry David Smith Terry Chief Justice of California. |title=Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences |date=1889 |page=[https://archive.org/details/benchandbarinca00shucgoog/page/n295 281] |publisher=Occident Printing |access-date=January 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406172247/https://archive.org/details/benchandbarinca00shucgoog |archive-date=April 6, 2016 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2bv14QniJXAC&q=David+S.+Terry+David+Smith+Terry+Chief+Justice+of+California&pg=PA416 |title=ABA Journal |date=May 1957 |volume=43 |issue=5 |page=416 |magazine=ABA Journal |access-date=January 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511133134/https://books.google.com/books?id=2bv14QniJXAC&pg=PA416&dq=David+S.+Terry+David+Smith+Terry+Chief+Justice+of+California&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3j42x6arKAhWBGD4KHQe-ANMQ6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=David%20S.%20Terry%20David%20Smith%20Terry%20Chief%20Justice%20of%20California&f=false |archive-date=May 11, 2016 |url-status=live }} In 1831, his family moved and settled in Brazoria County, Texas. He studied law in the office of his uncle, T. J. B. Hadley, and was admitted to the bar in Galveston in 1845. During the Mexican–American War, Terry served in Captain Samuel L. S. Ballowe's company of Colonel John Coffee Hays's First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers and participated in the Battle of Monterrey. In 1847, he lost the election for district attorney of Galveston, and in 1849 he joined the gold rush to California, where he attained success with his law practice in Stockton and became active in politics as a Democrat.{{cite web |last=Fullmore |first=Zachary Taylor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JuoxAQAAMAAJ&q=David+S.+Terry+David+Smith+Terry+Chief+Justice+of+California&pg=PA259 |title=The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names |date=1915 |page=259 |publisher=E. L. Steck Press |access-date=January 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506164713/https://books.google.com/books?id=JuoxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259&dq=David+S.+Terry+David+Smith+Terry+Chief+Justice+of+California&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3j42x6arKAhWBGD4KHQe-ANMQ6AEIQzAH#v=onepage&q=David%20S.%20Terry%20David%20Smith%20Terry%20Chief%20Justice%20of%20California&f=false |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=San Joaquin Intelligence|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18520301.2.21.31&srpos=1&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1852---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=60|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=1 March 1852|volume = 3|page=7|quote=David S. Terry, Esq., volunteered his services as assistant counsel.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230158/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18520301.2.21.31&srpos=1&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1852---1|archive-date=25 September 2017|url-status=live}}

In 1855, he took up the cause of the "Widow Sanchez".{{cite book|last1=Boessenecker|first1=John|title=Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez|date=2012|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman, OK|isbn=978-0806183169|pages=58–60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Nw9o6dpn4YC&q=%22William+Roach%22+%22Anastacio+Garcia%22+%22david+s.+terry%22&pg=PA58|access-date=September 26, 2017}} Maria Encarnacion Ortega de Sanchez, the widow of a wealthy rancher, was being cheated by local authorities, including the Sheriff, William Roach, who took her fortune under the guise of guardianship. After kidnapping Roach with the help of a local gunslinger named Anastacio Garcia, they held Roach in a jail cell in Stockton until he agreed to release the widow's gold. But Roach had bribed a guard to ride to Monterey and urge Roach's family to hide the gold. The treasure was hidden somewhere in Carmel Valley by Roach's brother-in-law, Jerry MacMahon. MacMahon was killed in a barroom brawl before he could reveal the location of the money.

In August 1855, he was nominated by the American Party (Know Nothings), in the special election for the Supreme Court of California seat left vacant by the death of Alexander Wells.{{cite news |title=The Fortnight's News, The State |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550630.2.6&srpos=19&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1 |access-date=September 25, 2017 |work=Daily Alta California |issue=163 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=30 June 1855 |volume = 6 |page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041021/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550630.2.6&srpos=19&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=American State Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18550810.2.6&srpos=18&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1 |access-date=September 25, 2017 |work=Sacramento Daily Union |issue=1365 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=10 August 1855 |volume = 9 |page=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230138/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18550810.2.6&srpos=18&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1 |archive-date=25 September 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=American Mass Meeting |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550905.2.17&srpos=14&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=219|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=5 September 1855|volume = 6|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230448/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18550905.2.17&srpos=14&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1855---1|archive-date=25 September 2017|url-status=live}} He won the election and served from November 15, 1855, to September 12, 1859, as a State Supreme Court Justice; from September 18, 1857, to the end of his term, he was the 4th Chief Justice of California.{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=J. Edward|title=History of the California Supreme Court: The Justices 1850-1900, vol 1|date=1963|publisher=Bender Moss Co|location=San Francisco, CA|pages=52–61|url=http://library.courtinfo.ca.gov/included/docs/SCJC_Vol_1.pdf|access-date=August 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227124913/http://library.courtinfo.ca.gov/included/docs/SCJC_Vol_1.pdf|archive-date=December 27, 2016|url-status=dead}}

In 1856, the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance challenged the corrupt city government controlled by David C. Broderick. Hundreds of armed "Vigilantes" seized two notorious murderers from the city jail and hanged them. The State of California, sympathetic to Broderick, declared San Francisco to be in a state of insurrection.{{cite news|title=Excitement in San Francisco|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MDH18560603.2.9&srpos=6&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Marysville Daily Herald|issue=212|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=3 June 1856|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042155/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MDH18560603.2.9&srpos=6&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} Judge Terry, a Broderick ally, traveled from Sacramento to San Francisco for negotiations between the Vigilance Committee and Broderick's henchmen. He was seized by Vigilance Committee gunmen.{{cite news|title=Supreme Court|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18560710.2.4&srpos=8&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=1650|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=10 July 1856|volume = 11|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041804/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18560710.2.4&srpos=8&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} Terry was a big man, known for his physical strength and for his skill with the Bowie knife he routinely carried in a sheath under his coat.{{cite web |last1=Service (USMS) |first1=U. S. Marshals |title=U.S. Marshals Service |url=https://www.usmarshals.gov/history/neagle/neagle5.htm |website=www.usmarshals.gov |access-date=3 March 2020 |language=en-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213065039/https://www.usmarshals.gov/history/neagle/neagle5.htm |archive-date=13 February 2020 |url-status=live }} He stabbed Vigilante Sterling A. Hopkins, who survived. Terry was tried and convicted by the Vigilance Committee, but released, "the usual punishments in their power to inflict, not being applicable, in the present instance."{{cite news |title=Release of Judge Terry |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18560816.2.16&srpos=1&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|access-date=September 25, 2017 |work=Los Angeles Star |issue=14 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=16 August 1856 |page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041546/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18560816.2.16&srpos=1&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Release of Judge Terry |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18560808.2.13.1&srpos=11&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=1675 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=8 August 1856 |volume = 11 |page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041936/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18560808.2.13.1&srpos=11&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1856---1|archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=live}}

On January 8, 1858, Chief Justice Terry administered the oath of office at the inauguration of Governor John B. Weller.{{cite news|title=Inauguration of Governor Weller|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18580123.2.8&srpos=3&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1858---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Los Angeles Star|issue=37|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=23 January 1858|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041507/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18580123.2.8&srpos=3&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1858---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}

{{main|Broderick–Terry duel}}

On June 25, 1859, the California Democratic Party state convention nominated Warner Cope for Supreme Court over Terry.{{cite news|title=Democratic LeCompton Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590625.2.2&srpos=9&e=01-06-1859-24-07-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2573|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=25 June 1859|volume = 17|page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928194956/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590625.2.2&srpos=9&e=01-06-1859-24-07-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|archive-date=28 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Democratic State Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18590702.2.10&srpos=34&e=------185-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Los Angeles Star|issue=8|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=2 July 1859|page=2|quote=On the first ballot Mr. Cope was nominated having received 163 votes; Terry 68; Aldrich 36.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044043/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LASTAR18590702.2.10&srpos=34&e=------185-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=29 September 2017|url-status=live}} Although Terry was a close friend of Democratic U.S. Senator from California David Broderick, Terry accused Broderick, a Free Soil advocate, of having engineered Terry's loss for nomination for re-election in the 1859 state elections.{{cite news|title=News of the Morning|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590628.2.5&srpos=3&e=01-06-1859-24-07-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2575|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=28 June 1859|volume = 17|page=2|quote=The remark made by Mr. Broderick about Judge Terry probably originated in some exceedingly personal and bitter remarks made by the latter before the Lecompton State Convention, in reference to the former individual and the members of the party with which he is connected.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928193557/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590628.2.5&srpos=3&e=01-06-1859-24-07-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|archive-date=28 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=The Late Affair in San Francisco|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590704.2.7&srpos=7&e=01-06-1859-14-09-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2580|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=4 July 1859|volume = 17|page=4|quote=At the breakfast table at the International Hotel, a few days since, Broderick commented on Judge Terry's course, and denounced it in severe terms, calling Terry anything but a gentleman.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044048/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590704.2.7&srpos=7&e=01-06-1859-14-09-1859-185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-broderick+terry----1859---1|archive-date=29 September 2017|url-status=live}}

Terry made inflammatory comments at a state convention in Sacramento, which offended Broderick.{{cite news|title=The Sad Termination|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590917.2.9&srpos=15&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2644|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 September 1859|volume = 17|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042215/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18590917.2.9&srpos=15&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}

On September 13, 1859, Terry and Broderick, having agreed to a duel, met just outside San Francisco city limits.{{cite book|last1=Hittell|first1=Theodore Henry|title=History of California, Volume 4|date=1897|publisher=N. J. Stone|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historycaliforn22hittgoog/page/n236 226]–228|url=https://archive.org/details/historycaliforn22hittgoog|quote=Constitutional Convention (California) david s. terry 1878.|access-date=September 26, 2017}} Terry won the coin toss to select weapons and chose pistols.{{cite news|title=City Items, The Broderick-Terry Duel. Mr. Broderick Shot|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18590914.2.21&srpos=3&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=255|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=14 September 1859|volume = 11|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928193517/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18590914.2.21&srpos=3&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=28 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Pistols From a Final Duel Are Sold for $34,500|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/26/us/pistols-from-a-final-duel-are-sold-for-34500.html|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=November 26, 1988|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927000534/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/26/us/pistols-from-a-final-duel-are-sold-for-34500.html?mcubz=1|archive-date=September 27, 2017|url-status=live}} Broderick's discharged early, leaving him open for Terry's shot. At first Terry thought that he had only wounded Broderick, but the senator died three days later.{{cite news|title=Entombed|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18590919.2.13&srpos=20&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=260|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=19 September 1859|volume = 11|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041551/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18590919.2.13&srpos=20&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Death of the Hon. D. C. Broderick|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CF18590923.2.20&srpos=17&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences|issue=9|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=23 September 1859|volume = 12|page=69|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041812/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CF18590923.2.20&srpos=17&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} The day before the duel, Terry had resigned as Chief Justice.

In June 1860, Terry was acquitted of murder.{{cite news|title=Judge Terry Admitted to Bail|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=VWD18591008.2.5&srpos=16&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Visalia Weekly Delta|issue=16|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=8 October 1859|volume = 1|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042158/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=VWD18591008.2.5&srpos=16&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=By Telegraph to the Union|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18591130.2.11.1&srpos=14&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2707|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=30 November 1859|volume = 18|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042116/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18591130.2.11.1&srpos=14&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1859---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Judge Terry's Trial in Marin County— Verdict of Not Guilty—Singular Proceedings|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18600707.2.8.2&srpos=1&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1860---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2895|date=7 July 1860|volume = 19|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926095716/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18600707.2.8.2&srpos=1&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1860---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=The Trial of Judge Terry|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18600709.2.17&srpos=8&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1860---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=2896|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=9 July 1860|volume = 19|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041625/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18600709.2.17&srpos=8&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1860---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} In November 1862, he campaigned for the Breckenridge Democratic Party. But by March 1863 he left the state for Texas.{{cite news|title=One More for Dixie|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630217.2.5&srpos=17&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|issue=3715|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 February 1863|volume = 14|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041731/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630217.2.5&srpos=17&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Another One of Them|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630312.2.7&srpos=4&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=3735|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=12 March 1863|volume = 24|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926095744/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630312.2.7&srpos=4&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Breckenridge Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630509.2.7&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=3785|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=9 May 1863|volume = 25|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041808/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18630509.2.7&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1863---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} He fought during the American Civil War, serving in the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate States Army. The unit was raised by his brother Benjamin Franklin Terry and was also known as Terry's Texas Rangers. Terry later became Colonel of the 37th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga.{{cite news|title=Latest Eastern News|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RBB18631107.2.13&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Red Bluff Beacon|issue=95|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=7 November 1863|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926095644/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RBB18631107.2.13&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} In November 1865, after the war was over, he moved to a ranch at Guadalajara, near Mazatlan, Mexico.{{cite news|title=Later from Western Mexico|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MDA18651121.2.5&srpos=6&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1865---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Marysville Daily Appeal|issue=118|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=21 November 1865|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042007/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MDA18651121.2.5&srpos=6&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1865---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Confederate Refugees in Mexico|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SD18651125.2.9&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1865---1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sonoma Democrat|issue=7|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=25 November 1865|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926095812/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SD18651125.2.9&srpos=2&e=------186-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22----1865---1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}

In 1869, Terry came back to Nevada,{{cite news|title=Reminicence of Senator Broderick|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18710303.2.17&srpos=49&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Mariposa Gazette|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=3 March 1871|page=4|quote=David S. Terry, who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235611/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18710303.2.17&srpos=49&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} and by 1870 returned to Stockton and engaged in private practice.{{cite news|title=The Upward-Bound Trip from San Francisco|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18730517.2.8&srpos=50&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=6902|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 May 1873|volume = 44|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235542/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18730517.2.8&srpos=50&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=The Courts, Sixth District Court|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18731021.2.27&srpos=25&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=7035|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=21 October 1873|volume = 46|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235502/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18731021.2.27&srpos=25&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=The Geiger-Alexander Case|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RRF18740827.2.29&srpos=53&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Russian River Flag|issue=42|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=27 August 1874|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235724/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RRF18740827.2.29&srpos=53&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Geyser Quicksilver Mines|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SD18770519.2.19&srpos=6&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sonoma Democrat|issue=30|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=19 May 1877|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926190931/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SD18770519.2.19&srpos=6&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Merced Items|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18780330.2.11&srpos=11&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Mariposa Gazette|issue=41|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=30 March 1878|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926191017/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18780330.2.11&srpos=11&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} From March 1878 to March 1879, he was a delegate from San Joaquin County, California, to the state Constitutional Convention.{{cite news|title=A Proclamation of the Governor|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18780713.2.38&srpos=27&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=124|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=13 July 1878|volume = 7|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235338/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18780713.2.38&srpos=27&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Delegates to the Constitutional Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18780720.2.10.3&srpos=18&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Pacific Rural Press|issue=3|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=20 July 1878|volume = 16|page=36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926191002/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18780720.2.10.3&srpos=18&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Constitutional Convention|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18781005.2.12&srpos=46&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Mariposa Gazette|issue=16|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=5 October 1878|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235539/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18781005.2.12&srpos=46&e=------187-en--20--41--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} Terry was chair of the Committee on Legislative Department, and his proposed language on bank directors' liability to depositors was adopted.{{cite book|title=Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of California, Convened at the City of Sacramento, September 28, 1878|date=1880|publisher=State office, J. D. Young, Superintendent State printing|location=Sacramento, CA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxw4AAAAIAAJ&q=Constitutional+Convention+%28California%29+%22david+s.+terry%22+1878&pg=PA13|access-date=September 26, 2017|page=450}}{{cite book|last1=Shuck|first1=Oscar Tully|title=History of the Bench and Bar of California: Being Biographies of Many Remarkable Men, a Store of Humorus and Pathetic Recollections, Accounts of Important Legislation and Extraordinary Cases, Comprehending the Judicial History of the State|date=1901|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|isbn=1584777060|pages=245–261|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XaU8GY32hUC&q=Constitutional+Convention+%28California%29+%22david+s.+terry%22+1878&pg=PA250|access-date=September 26, 2017}}

In August 1879, the Democratic Party nominated Terry for California Attorney General.{{cite news|title=News of the Morning|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790820.2.6&srpos=17&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=139|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=20 August 1879|volume = 8|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235455/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790820.2.6&srpos=17&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Terry for Attorney General|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18790821.2.39&srpos=7&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=21 August 1879|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926190937/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18790821.2.39&srpos=7&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} The nomination triggered criticism of his record of dueling with Broderick and fighting for the Confederacy.{{cite news|title=Terry, Here and There|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790822.2.7&srpos=16&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=141|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=22 August 1879|volume = 8|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235331/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790822.2.7&srpos=16&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Terry's Lost Cause|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790906.2.34&srpos=3&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=154|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=6 September 1879|volume = 8|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235500/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790906.2.34&srpos=3&e=------187-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} Terry lost the election to Republican Augustus L. Hart.{{cite news|title=Official Vote of Sacramento County|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790910.2.23&srpos=28&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=157|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=10 September 1879|volume = 8|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235536/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18790910.2.23&srpos=28&e=------187-en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}

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In the 1880s, Terry became entangled in a volatile public scandal. Thirty year old Sarah Althea Hill had been the mistress of 60 year old silver millionaire and former U.S. Senator William Sharon. When he ended the relationship and took up with another woman, she sued for divorce, claiming adultery.

Sharon countersued, claiming that the marriage contract she provided was a forgery, and that they had never married. Hill wanted a share of Sharon's wealth.{{cite news|title=The Sharon-Hill Contract Case|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18850317.2.16&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=12756|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 March 1885|volume = 38|page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235545/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18850317.2.16&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} The court ruled that the marriage contract was a forgery. Terry appealed the ruling to the United States Supreme Court.{{cite news|title=The United States Supreme Court to Pass Upon the Sharon Will Case|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18871103.2.32&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=13943|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=3 November 1887|volume = 42|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052224/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18871103.2.32&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|archive-date=27 September 2017|url-status=live}} After Sharon died on November 13, 1885, Althea married Terry on January 7, 1886, in Stockton. She produced a will that she said she found in Sharon's desk which gave her all of his assets.{{cite news|title=Judge Terry and Sarah Althea Hill|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SRPD18860108.2.14&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Press Democrat|issue=159|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=8 January 1886|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235613/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SRPD18860108.2.14&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}} United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field, a former friend of Broderick's, heard the case in 1888 as the senior justice of the Federal circuit court in California.{{cite book|last1=Gorham|first1=George Congdon|last2=Field|first2=Henry Martyn|title=Biographical Notice of Stephen J. Field|year=1892|publisher=Published for the family|pages=86–87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pyhOAAAAYAAJ&q=Stephen+J.+Field%2C++Sharon+v.+Hill+case+in+1888&pg=PA86|access-date=September 27, 2017}}

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On September 3, 1888, Field delivered the final Circuit Court opinion. He ruled that the will was a forgery. Sarah Althea Hill suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her revolver. When Marshal John Franks and others attempted to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry rose to defend his wife and drew his Bowie knife.[http://www.therealmscience.net/in-re-neagle.html In Re Neagle]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |title=THE DEATH BLOW The Sarah Althea Marriage Contract Declared a Forgery |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/458008304/ |date=January 1, 1886 |website=www.newspapers.com |publisher=San Francisco Examiner |access-date=3 March 2020}} He hit Franks, knocking out a tooth, and the marshals drew their handguns. Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled his Bowie knife and threatened all around him. David Neagle was among the Marshals present and put his pistol in Terry's face. Both Terrys were subdued and placed under arrest. Justice Field had them returned to the courtroom and sentenced both to jail for contempt of court. David Terry got six months in jail, and Sarah Terry got one month."Terry's Petition," Daily Alta California, 18 September 1888, p 1.{{cite web |last1=Service (USMS) |first1=U. S. Marshals |title=U.S. Marshals Service |url=https://www.usmarshals.gov/history/neagle/neagle6.htm |website=www.usmarshals.gov |access-date=3 March 2020 |language=en-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513220227/https://www.usmarshals.gov/history/neagle/neagle6.htm |archive-date=13 May 2017 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=The Terrys|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HTES18880908.2.40&srpos=11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar|issue=25|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=8 September 1888|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235616/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HTES18880908.2.40&srpos=11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|archive-date=26 September 2017|url-status=live}}

While being transported to jail and while serving their sentences, Terry and his wife repeatedly threatened Judge Field. The Terrys suffered several more setbacks. Both David and Althea were indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges arising out of their behavior in the courtroom before Justice Field. In May 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the order that invalidated Althea Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon. Then, in July, with only one of the four judges who had earlier ruled in their favor, the California Supreme Court reversed itself. It ruled that because Althea Terry and Sharon had kept their alleged marriage a secret, they were never legally married. While in jail or shortly afterward, pregnant Althea suffered a miscarriage.

A year later, on August 14, 1889, David Terry and Justice Field were on the same train headed to San Francisco when it stopped at the train station in Lathrop for breakfast.{{cite news|title=David S. Terry|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18890816.2.2&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 25, 2017|work=Sacramento Daily Union|issue=149|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=16 August 1889|volume = 61|page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230249/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18890816.2.2&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22david+s.+terry%22-------1|archive-date=25 September 2017|url-status=live}} Terry slapped Field in the face.{{Cite book|title=The War That Forged a Nation : Why the Civil War Still Matters|last=McPherson|first=James M.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0199375776|pages=31}} Field's bodyguard, Deputy United States Marshal David B. Neagle, fearing that Terry was reaching for the Bowie knife he was known to carry in his breast pocket, shot and killed Terry.{{cite news|title=David Smith Terry|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18890815.2.2.11&srpos=14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry+field-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Daily Alta California|issue=46|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=15 August 1889|volume = 81|page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052404/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18890815.2.2.11&srpos=14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry+field-------1|archive-date=27 September 2017|url-status=live}} Neagle was arrested by San Joaquin County Sheriff Tom Cunningham on a charge of murder.{{cite book|last1=Burrill|first1=Donald R.|title=Servants of the Law: Judicial Politics on the California Frontier 1849-89 : an Interpretive Exploration of the Field-Terry Controversy|date=2011|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0761848912|pages=260–263|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWufoAz0ec0C&q=Constitutional+Convention+%28California%29+%22david+s.+terry%22+1878&pg=PA279|access-date=September 26, 2017}} The United States attorney general secured the release of Neagle on a writ of habeas corpus. The issue was resolved by In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890), a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that the United States Attorney General had authority to appoint U.S. Marshals as bodyguards.

Terry is buried at Stockton Rural Cemetery in Stockton.

The widow Sarah Terry gradually went insane. She wandered the streets of San Francisco aimlessly, ignoring her appearance. She constantly talked to "spirits," especially that of her husband. She was diagnosed with dementia praecox, an early term for schizophrenia. On March 2, 1892, she was found insane and committed at age 41 to the California Asylum at Stockton, where she lived for 45 years until her death."Declared Insane," San Francisco Chronicle, 11 March 1892, p. 12."Rose of Sharon Who Died in West Thought Native of Girardeau",Southeast Missourian, Feb. 20, 1937, p. 3.{{cite news|title=California's Famous Litigant Shut Up in a Madhouse|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18920501.2.76&srpos=38&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=20|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=1 May 1892|volume = 38|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052235/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18920501.2.76&srpos=38&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-%22Sarah+Althea+Hill%22+terry-------1|archive-date=27 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Body of Former Bay City Belle Claimed|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19370218.1.23&srpos=2&e=------193-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22sarah+althea+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=San Bernardino Sun|agency=United Press|issue=43|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=18 February 1937|page=23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052247/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19370218.1.23&srpos=2&e=------193-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22sarah+althea+terry%22-------1|archive-date=27 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Famous Belle of Early Days Dies in Obscurity|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19370222.1.4&srpos=1&e=------193-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22sarah+althea+terry%22-------1|access-date=September 26, 2017|work=San Bernardino Sun|issue=43|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=22 February 1937|page=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927052415/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19370222.1.4&srpos=1&e=------193-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22sarah+althea+terry%22-------1|archive-date=27 September 2017|url-status=live}} She is buried in the same grave as her husband. Terry's first wife, Cornelia Runnels, who died in December 1884, is also buried next to him.

In the 1952 novel, Incident at Sun Mountain, by Todhunter Ballard, Judge Terry is the leader of a chapter of the Knights of the Golden Circle operating in Virginia City and Carson City, Nevada, on the eve of the Civil War.

In 1963, Brad Dexter was cast as Justice Terry, with Carroll O'Connor as Senator Broderick, in "A Gun Is Not a Gentleman" on the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. Though past allies as Democrats, Terry, a defender of slavery, challenged the anti-slavery Broderick to a duel.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556539/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=A Gun Is Not a Gentleman" on Death Valley Days|website=Internet Movie Database|access-date=February 28, 2019}}

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• {{cite book|last1=Buchanan|first1=A. Russell|title=David S. Terry of California: Dueling Judge|date=1956|publisher=The Huntington Press|location=San Marino, CA|url=https://www.questia.com/library/1481850/david-s-terry-of-california-dueling-judge|access-date=2017-09-26|archive-date=2017-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235637/https://www.questia.com/library/1481850/david-s-terry-of-california-dueling-judge|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Potts|first1=Charles S.|title=David S. Terry: The Romantic Story of a Great Texan|journal=Southwest Review|date=April 1934|volume=19|issue=3|pages=295–334|jstor=43462097}}
• {{cite book|last1=Wagstaff|first1=Alexander E.|title=Life of David S. Terry: presenting an authentic, impartial and vivid history of his eventful life and tragic death|date=1892|publisher=Continental Pub. Co.|location=San Francisco, CA|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofdavidsterr00wags|access-date=September 25, 2017}}
• {{cite book|last1=Terry|first1=David S.|title=Trial of David S. Terry by the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco|date=1856|publisher=R.C. Moore & Co.|location=San Francisco, CA|url=https://archive.org/details/trialofdavidster00terr|access-date=September 26, 2017}}

• [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fte29 David Smith Terry] at Handbook of Texas Online
• {{Find a Grave|6823201}}
• [http://www.cschs.org/history/california-supreme-court-justices/david-s-terry/ David S. Terry]. California Supreme Court Historical Society.
• [http://www.courts.ca.gov/12523.htm Past & Present Justices]. California State Courts.

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