Barren-Pulaski County KyArchives Obituaries.....Helen M. Curd February 1897
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Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 17 Feb 1897
"The following notice of the death of Mrs. Helen M. Curd, of Somerset, is taken 
from the Somerset Paragon of last week. Mr. John B. Curd, better known as Mr. 
Brent Curd, was born and raised within a mile or two of Glasgow, and has a 
large acquaintance among our older citizens. He was a brother of Mr. Daniel 
Curd, of Cave City, of the late Mrs. Frank Dickey, and of the mother of Mr. 
Geo. Snoddy, of this place.

"Mrs. Helen M. Curd, the olest person of this city, died last Thursday morning. 
She was 91 years of age, and had been a widow for fifty-seven years, and had 
lived in the same residence for fifty years. Her husband died there in 1850. 
That was a model home then, and has always been such since, a place where every 
good man and woman was greeted with the heartiest of the truest Kentucky 
hospitality, with the best comforts of a good home. Her husband, John Brent 
Curd, was a prosperous business man and had built their home only three years 
before his death, having retired from the hotel business to enjoy a more quiet 
life, and engaged in the mercantile business. He was idoloized by his family 
and loved by all right thinking people who knew him. At his death most of their 
children were quite young, left to the care of the widowed mother, and never 
did a fonder mother watch over and care for her children, and never were 
children more tender and loving toward mother.

"Mrs. Curd was Miss Chaplin before marriage and was born at Bowling Green, and, 
in that part of the State, she still has many relatives living.

"The children of Mrs Curd yet living are Mr. Will C Curd, Mrs. Bettie Crawford, 
Mrs. A. T. Keene and Mrs. Mattie Gragg, widow of the late J. Beatie Gragg. 
Those children who went before her were A. T. Curd and three daughters, the 
daughters having died quite young many years ago.

"The funeral services of Mrs. Curd were conducted by Rev. W. E. Arnold, at the 
family residence, last Sunday. The remains were laid to rest in this city's 
beautiful cemetery, and now in memory we will keep the pleasant smile and the 
warm heart's greeting from time of long ago, up to the last moment of her life, 
for the farewell has been spoken to the tender, loving, faithful, patient, 
christian mother.



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