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Terry Otto Pillow

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Terry Otto Pillow

Birth
Boone County, Arkansas, USA
Death
24 Nov 1977 (aged 59)
Boone County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Terry Otto Pillow
United States Census, 1920

Name Terry O Pillow
Event Type Census
Event Date 1920
Event Place Bryan, Boone, Arkansas, United States
Gender Male
Age 1
Marital Status Single
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Birth Year 1918
Birthplace Arkansas
Father's Birthplace Arkansas
Mother's Birthplace Arkansas
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 1

Household Role: Gender: Age: Birthplace:

Ottie W Pillow Head M 26 Arkansas
Walsie L Pillow Wife F 20 Arkansas
Terry O Pillow Son M 1 Arkansas
Herbert Collins Servant M 11 New York
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Only son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Pillow, at age three Terry was injured in a fall which damaged his spine.
He first heard Gospel music came when Eugene Bartlett and a quartet arrived in Harrison from Dallas, Texas. This contact with Bartlett, and with Albert Brumley, influenced Pillow to go into the Gospel music field.
Pillow had his first piano lessons with Albert Brumley. He later attended five normals run by the Stamps-Baxter Company in Dallas, studying under Jesse R. Baxter, Virgil O. Stamps, George T. Speer, James H. Ruebush, Thomas J. Farris, Joe Roper, Christopher C. Stafford and others.
Pillow married Julia Zurga in 1939, and they had a son and daughter.
For a while Terry had a shoe repair shop in Harrison, AR. It was called Pillow's Shoe Shop.

Contributor:
Beverly Joe Vaughn


Terry Otto Pillow
United States Census, 1920

Name Terry O Pillow
Event Type Census
Event Date 1920
Event Place Bryan, Boone, Arkansas, United States
Gender Male
Age 1
Marital Status Single
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Birth Year 1918
Birthplace Arkansas
Father's Birthplace Arkansas
Mother's Birthplace Arkansas
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 1

Household Role: Gender: Age: Birthplace:

Ottie W Pillow Head M 26 Arkansas
Walsie L Pillow Wife F 20 Arkansas
Terry O Pillow Son M 1 Arkansas
Herbert Collins Servant M 11 New York
===============================

Only son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Pillow, at age three Terry was injured in a fall which damaged his spine.
He first heard Gospel music came when Eugene Bartlett and a quartet arrived in Harrison from Dallas, Texas. This contact with Bartlett, and with Albert Brumley, influenced Pillow to go into the Gospel music field.
Pillow had his first piano lessons with Albert Brumley. He later attended five normals run by the Stamps-Baxter Company in Dallas, studying under Jesse R. Baxter, Virgil O. Stamps, George T. Speer, James H. Ruebush, Thomas J. Farris, Joe Roper, Christopher C. Stafford and others.
Pillow married Julia Zurga in 1939, and they had a son and daughter.
For a while Terry had a shoe repair shop in Harrison, AR. It was called Pillow's Shoe Shop.

Contributor:
Beverly Joe Vaughn



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