between 50 and 60. Two were between 20 and thirty, also a male and female. Seven were children, 5 boys and 2 girls.
Nancy Clark Henderson Curry’s parents must have been the older couple living with John Curry in 1810, because his father, Dr. Archibald Curry, and his mother, Sara McDonald Curry lived, died, and were buried in Lexington, Scott Co. Also, John Delaware Curry was their youngest son.
Thomas Whitledge had a male and a female between forty and fifty, and a female under 5 in his household.
Marriage Notes for JOHN CURRY and NANCY HENDERSON:
John Curry married Margaret McClure 24 December 1840. He was 61 and she was 51. Information about here family is on record at Stonermouth Church, Ruddles Mills, Bourbon Co. KY.
Children of JOHN CURRY and NANCY HENDERSON are:
7. i. SARA JANE3 CURRY, b. 1809, Harrison Co. KY; d. 1850, Peno Twp., Pike Co. MO.
ii. MILTON CURRY, b. 1802.
iii. MANDEVILLE D. CURRY, b. 1804; d. October 1860, Jackson Co. MO.
Notes for MANDEVILLE D. CURRY:
1850 Census of Harrison Co. KY: Mandeville Curry age 33 was a wheelwright.
Living with him were his stepmother, Margaret, age 61; sister America, age 26; and Malvina, niece, daughter of his brother, John H. Curry, as mentioned in John Curry will. It states that he was born in KY.
FEDERAL CENSUS MORTALITY SCHEDULES INDEX RECORD:
iv. JOHN H. CURRY, b. 1806.
v. JAMES ALEXANDER CURRY, b. 1810.
8. vi. PERRY ALLEN CURRY, b. September 29, 1819, KY; d. February 20, 1902, Curryville, Pike Co. MO.
9. vii. AMERICA CURRY, b. 1824, Harrison Co. KY.
3. JAMES2 CURRY (DR. ARCHIBALD’) was born 1758 in Delaware, and died September 30, 1790 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He married Miss MANLOVE. She was born in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Notes for JAMES CURRY:
James Curry, born 1759, had as his only son, James Rolland Curry who was 60 on July 6, 1850, on the 1850 Census of District No.1 in Harrison Co. KY., wife Martha (Bracken) Curry, 50, and their children: Eliza, 24; James 21, a lawyer; Martha age 22, and Ann, ag
James Curry was born in Kent Co. Delaware and married a Miss Manlove from Edinburgh, Scotland. They moved from Delaware to Scott Co. KY where their son James R. Curry was saved from Indians when a babe by being concealed by a slave Hannah, in a sack, along with her son Dover, and smuggled into Flourney’s Station. His father had died and he was staying with his grandparents who had gone to Lexington and left him in the care of Hannah.
He died 30 September 1790 at Harmer’s Defeat at Fort Wayne, Indiana, when his only son was less than a year old. Thus James R. Curry inherited, as the oldest son, $10,000 in money, slaves, and land. He became a surveyor and owned land in Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Mississippi. Before his death James Curry, in partnership with the industrialist, land speculator, and slave merchant, David Ross, surveyed and bought tens of thousands of acres of land in what became KY. In KY land records he is listed as James Currie.
(There was another James Curry in Cynthiana Records, unrelated to James, the oldest son of Archibald.)
John Delaware Curry taught his brother’s son, James R. Curry, to read, because his stepfather was illiterate. He named James R. Curry the executor of his estate, but he lived out of town, next to Thomas Whitledge, had slaves, and land in Covington. Was this Covington KY, near where he married Nancy Clark Henderson, or Covington KY, where he might have speculated in lands, or inherited them from his brother, John H. Curly, who left his orphaned daughter, Malvina, to be raised by John Delaware Curry? Many handwritten poems of Robert Burns were destroyed, possibly in the home of Dr. James R. Curry, which burned to the ground.
Malvina was living with Mandeville Curry and her stepmother, Margaret, in 1860 Harrison Co. Census.
Child of JAMES CURRY and Miss MANLOVE is:
10. i. MAJOR JAMES ROLLAND3 CURRY, b. 1789, Bryant’s Station, Fayette Co. KY; d. Cynthiana, Harrison Co. KY.
4. JANE2 CURRY (DR. ARCHIBALD1) was born 1764. She married MOSES ARCHIBALD YELL in Talbot Co. MD, son of Pierce YELL and Anna HOAG.