U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Curry, John McAvoy (1847-1913) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 422-423 JOHN McAVOY CURRY, member elect of the Lower House of the West Virginia Legislature, was born October 23, 1847. Raised on a farm, owns a farm of 350 acres on the waters of the Little Kanawha River, near the postoffice of Kanawha Head. His land is all underlaid with the Freeport Coal vein, which is locally known as the McKiskic vein. His term of office as legislator expires in 1908. He is a Methodist and a Republican. On March 8, 1877, he married Sabina (Conrad) Curry, a daughter of Jacob P. and Elizabeth M. (Alkire) Conrad, and a granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Currence) Conrad, who emigrated from Germany to Rockingham County, Va., in an early day, and their children are: Gertrude M. Douglas, wife of J. T. Douglas of Canaan; Esker F., educated in the West Virginia Conference Seminary and the Mountain State Business College, Parkersburg, W. Va., and married Miss Maude Williams of Webster County and has been a merchant of Linwood, Pocahontas County since 1904; James L. married Miss Nella Kincaid; Landona B., wife of Robert T. Brooks, a prominent school teacher of Upshur County; William B., married Carrie Morrison of Gaines, W. Va., and entered the mercantile business at Carter in 1906; Charles E., a school teacher, who was educated in public and normal schools and taught at Eden, Kanawha Head, Canaan, Kanawha Run and in Randolph and Pocahontas Counties, before becoming a merchant at home; John D., was educated in the common schools and the Wesleyan College, taught in Upshur and Pocahontas Counties, which profession he still follows; Martha B., wife of A. S. McKisic of Kanawha Head. The subject of this sketch was a son of James and Sarah (McAvoy) Curry. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Upshur County, WV (Pages 232-233) FULL-NAME: J. M. Curry DEATH-DATE: December 9, 1913 at age 66y-1m-16d DEATH-PLACE: Kanawha Head MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Farmer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Apoplexy (wife of John M. Curry) From Death Certificate, Harrison County, WV #12410 FULL-NAME: Sabina Curry BIRTH-DATE: October 11, 1850 BIRTH-PLACE: Webster County, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: October 23, 1943 DEATH-PLACE: Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV RESIDENCE: Lee St., Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widow (John M. Curry) OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Jacob P. Conrad MOTHER: Elizabeth Alkire CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Organic Heart Disease INFORMANT: J. L. Curry (of Kanawha Head) BURIAL: Kanawha Head ------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a double-tombstone in Haymond Cemetery, Upshur County, WV CURRY John M. Oct. 23, 1847 - Dec. 8, 1913 Sabina Oct. 11, 1850 - Oct 23, 1943 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------