Georgia   Biographies Baptist Ministers W.L. Curry

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W. L. CURRY

While a minister, about thirty-five years of age, of
pre-possessing appearance, was once earnestly
delivering the Gospel message to his pastoral charge
at Evergreen church in Mitchell county, Georgia, a
note was handed him.  He read it, and then proceeded
with his discourse until it was finished.  The note
announced the sudden death of his father, whom, the
day before, he had left in good health in the
adjoining county of Baker.  

The preacher's named was W. L. Curry, by birth a
South Carolinian, who made Georgia his home by
adoption, at the close of our late civil war.  A
graduate of Furman University, an attendant, during
three years, of the Baptist Theological Seminary at
Columbia, South Carolina, and, during two years, of
the Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, South
Carolina, he has had a fine education, and, after the
war, settled in Dougherty county, Georgia, where he
preached and taught school.  He afterwards moved to
Baker county and was called to take charge of the
Baptist church at Milford, which he has served ever
since, except one year spent in Randolph county...

About five feet ten inches high, he is a man of
slight build, with light hair, blue eyes, a florid
complexion and weighs 130 or 135 pounds...  He was
born December 20th, 1836, in Edgefield district,
South Carolina, his parents being Joel and Elizabeth
Curry.  In his sixteenth year he professed religion,
and joined the Big Stephens Creek church in South
Carolina.  In 1860 he was ordained...  During a visit
to Richmond that he met her who was destined to
become his life-partner, Miss Emily E. Toy, of
Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of Deacon Thomas D. Toy,
and sister of Dr. C. H. Toy, late professor in the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He was
married May 2d, 1861.

... He was appointed chaplain of a regiment of
Semme's Georgia brigade, an office he filled for
three years...

... after the war, to settle in southwestern Georgia,
among the survivors of the very brigade with which he
had labored so much during the war, without in the
slightest degree anticipating the reunion when he
came to the State.  There, among his old companions
in arms, and among the many new friends he has made,
he labors as a minister, without reproach among white
and colored alike, standing high in the community
both as a man and a neighbor...

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DEMONINATION IN GEORGIA:
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM AND PORTRAIT GALLERY OF
BAPTIST MINISTERS AND OTHER GEORGIA BAPTIST, 1881,
Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Atlanta, Ga., pp. 164-165.


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