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William Hutchison Terrell, born in Orange County, Virginia, on 4 July 1806, was one of the ten children born to Archibald Terrell and Sarah Hutchison. He was but an infant, therefore, when his father moved the family from Virginia to Kentucky. William H. Terrell was a bright student and attended Transylvania College, in Lexington. He then went to the Ohio Medical College, where he received his medical degree in 1821. He returned to Kentucky, where he practiced medicine in Versailles.Dr. Terrell was mustered into the Third Brigade of the Third Army of Illinois Volunteers for the Black Hawk War on 21 June 1832. He served as Chief Surgeon for the Third Regiment, under the command of Colonel Gabriel Jones. At the time of this service, his place of residence was listed as Clinton County, in southern Illinois, about 30 miles directly east of St. Louis. Dr. Terrell was a devout Methodist.
In 25 December 1839 he married Lucinda Wilcox. She was the daughter of Luke Wilcox and Pinkston Kenner. During the almost-twelve years of their marriage, Lucinda gave birth to six children. the birth of their sixth child in June, 1851, however, proved fatal to both mother and daughter -- Lucinda dying three month later on September 3 and her infant daughter two weeks later on September 17.
Followng Lucinda's death, Dr. Terrell married, as his second wife, Louise Jane Dodd in 1854. He died ten years later at his home in Versailles, Kentucky.