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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CURRY, Granvill
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJAFLA@aol.com
September 17, 1999
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Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974
GRANVILL CURRY
----and Nancy Ann Thompson were united in wedlock in Cabell county, West
Virginia, October 8, 1868, the Rev. Benjamin Hager officiating clergyman. The
children of the union are all at home and were born as follows: Cora Zulema,
June 28, 1869; William Hiram Francisco, December 12, 1870; Georgia Roxile,
November 30, 1872; Agnes Bertha, September 19, 1875; Franklin Ellsworth,
March 26, 1878; Oscar Fleming, July 3, 1880; Laura Jane April 22, 1883. Mrs.
Curry was born in Cabell county, March 8, 1845 and her parents are William
and Martha Ann (Morrison) Thompson. The former died August 20, 1876.
Granville Curry was born in Lincoln county October 30, 1841, a son of Hiram
and Barbara (Kayser) Curry. The former died December 29, 1869. Mr. Curry
served in the Federal army during the late war in Company G. 3d West Virginia
Volunteer Cavalry. He enlisted in the fall of 1862 and remained until the
close of the war, participating in the following battles: Winchester, Newton,
Cedar Creek, Fisher Hill, Fiery Forks, seven days' fight near Richmond,
Bunkers Hill, and he was present at Lee's surrender. Mr. and Mrs. Curry
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867, in which Mr. Curry has been
class leader, steward, Sabbath school superintendent and is at present a
trustee. His parents were among the earliest settlers on Big Buffalo creek,
Carroll district. Granvill Curry is a farmer in Carroll district, owning 125
acres of well-improved land on Big Buffalo creek, five miles east from
Hamlin. A part of the land is heavily timbered with poplar, pine, oak,
hickory and walnut and there is upon the farm a large orchard of apple,
peach, pear, plum and quince trees.
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