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John Delaware Curry

John Delaware Curry, the youngest son of Dr. Archibald and Sara McDonald Curry, was born in 1779.  In the fall of 1788, he moved with his parents to Kentucky
and settled in Scott County.

John D. married first Nancy Clark Henderson April 30,1801 in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. By 1810 the family was living on the west side of the Licking River in Harrison
County.  Seven children were born to John and Nancy.  Nancy Henderson Curry probably died sometime between 1824 and 1840. John married second on
December 24, 1840 to a widow, Margaret McClure Moore.  She was the daughter of James and Margaret McClure and the first wife of James Moore, who she
married on February 25, 1808.  

John Delaware Curry died in Harrison County, Kentucky on May 10, 1849. He and second wife, Margaret McClure Curry, James and Margaret McClure and James
Moore are buried in the Old Stonermouth Cemetery, Ruddell's Mill, Bourbon County, Kentucky. John Delaware Curry's will is recorded in Harrison County, Kentucky
will book F, page 171.  No date written is given; probate on July 9, 1849.  John names wife, Margaret; daughters, Sara Jane Whitledge and America Curry; sons,
Manderville, Perry A. and Milton.  Also names are Malvina Curry, daughter of son J. H. Curry and grandson, Ira C. Whitledge.

Addition information (2010) by Pat King:       

Newly found information about the marriage of John Delaware Curry and Nancy Clark Henderson.
According to BOURBON COUNTY KY  MARRIAGE BOOK 2: April 30, 18__, John Curry married Nancy
Clark Henderson.
The marriage was performed by Rev. Samuel Rannells, who was one of the Synodical missionaries
sent out from VA in 1787.  He was pastor of the churches at Paris and Stoner Creek until his death
in 1817. Many of the entries of the marriages he performed have unreadable dates, and historical
accounts state that he "frequently made missinary tours, confirming the weak and struggling churches,
and was often a welcome visitor."
John Curry's will mentions "land in Covington" which was probably at one time in Washington County,
VA, but it seems most probable that the marriage did take place April 30, 1801 in Bourbon County.
Their first chid was born 1802.

Children of John Delaware and Nancy Henderson Curry
Milton Curry was born 1802.
Manderville D. Curry was born 1804. Died Jackson County, Missouri October 1860.
John H. Curry was born 1806
Sara Jane Curry was born 1809 in Harrison County, Kentucky,  She married in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky
on 24 February 1829 to Thomas Whitledge, son of John and Alicey Fritter Whitledge.  Thomas was born 4 March 1788,
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.   Sarah Jane Curry Whitledge died in 1850 in Peno Township, Pike County, Missouri.  

Sara and John had a daughter, America Susan, born September 7, 1830 in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky. She
married Samuel Alexander Tombs on 22 March 1855 in Pike County, Missouri. Samuel was born on December 28, 1828
in Bowling Green, Pike County, Missouri and died there on August 12, 1904.  After Susan's death on October 22, 1873
in Bowling Green, Pike County, Missouri, Samuel married second her sister Sara Whitledge, widow of Doyle.
James Alexander Curry was born 1810.
Perry Allen Curry was born September 29, 1819 in Kentucky.  He married Sarah J. Biggs, daughter of William and
Elizabeth McCune Biggs on November 5, 1846 in Pike County Missouri. Sarah was the widow of James C. Duval, who
she married in April of 1839 in Pike County.  Perry and Sarah had the following children: Mary Malvina, b: September
1849; John,b: 1849; Emily, b: 1853; Sara M., b: 1855; Annie, b: 1858; Milton, b: 1859; Frances, b: 1860. Perry
died on February 20, 1902, in Curryville, Pike County, Missouri.
America Curry was born 1824 in Harrison County, Kentucky.  She married Thomas Davis Scroggins in 1851.  Born on
July 5, 1823 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, he was the son of George and Mary Mills Scroggins.  Thomas died on
November 13, 1863 in Pike County, Missouri.

Source:
Harrison County, Kentucky 1810 census
Harrison County, Kentucky 1850 census
Kentucky Court Records, Vol. 1 - Abstracts Probate, Harrison County, Kentucky 1836-42, by Janet K. Pease
History of Pike County, Missouri
US Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index
Ancestry.com, One World Tree (Pedigree of Thomas Davis Scroggins)

Submitted by:  Pat King

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