Wilson Edgar Terry, the last Kentucky veteran of the Spanish-American War, was born in Crockettsville, Kentucky , in Breathitt County, Kentucky, in 1874, the son of Isaac Terry. He attended Lee College in Jackson. His first wife was Ida Kidd, who died when their first child, a daughter was an infant. He then married Ruse Wilder and had seven children with her, among them the writer Berniece T. Hiser. He lived at Cow Creek, Kentucky, in Owsley County, Kentucky, until 1927, when he moved to Kings Mills, Ohio, where he ran a general store. He was a staunch Republican all his life. He was also a notary public and licensed to preach by the Baptists. Governor Bert T. Combs appointed him a Kentucky colonel. He died in 1968 at age 92 and was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Mason, Ohio.