Biographical Sketch of Charles L. Curtice, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Charles L. Curtice, dealer in marble and granite monuments, tomb-
stones, etc., at Buffalo, MO., is a native of the "Empire State",
having been born on November 10, 1842, in Washington County, N.Y.
His father was a well-known Free-will Baptist minister, while his
mother was a Wing, of the Wings of Troy, N.Y.  Charles L. Curtice
was reared and educated in his native State, and at the age of 
seventeen began teaching school in Wisconsin, to which State his
widowed mother removed in the previous year, his father dying 
while the son was only twelve years old.  When the Civil War broke
out he enlisted, on April 27, 1861, in Company F, Twentieth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry.  On November 27, 1861, he was discharged, but
re-enlisted on the same day in Company C, Sixth Illinois Cavalry.
He was on the famous Grierson raid, and participated in the siege of
Port Hudson, the last fight at Nashville, and a large number of 
lesser engagements.  He was captured twice by the enemy, once by the
guerrilas, but although he was run by blood-hounds, he escaped, and
after elven weeks returned to his regiment at Memphis, Tenn.  He was
discharged November 27, 1865, at Camp Butler, Ill., making his term
of service four years and seven months.  For two years after his
discharge he taught school in Franklin County, Ill.  In 1868 he came
to Dallas County, MO., and for about eighteen years he taught in the
schools of Dallas and adjoining counties.  He also homesteaded and
improved a farm during the intervals of teaching.  He was married 
while on veteran furlough, April 27, 1864, to Miss Nancy E. Tinsley,
of Franklin County, Ill., by whom he has had six children:  Alice,
married and living in Gunnison, Colo.; Willie, who died in November,
1884, at the age of fifteen years; Mamie, Walter, Cecil and Neva.  
His wife is a lineal descendant, on her father's die, of one of the
oldest German families, her grandmother being a Molkey, a near 
relation of the Baron Von Moltke.  Mr. Curtice is a member of the
A.O.U.W. and the G.A.R., and he and his wife are members of the 
Christian Church.
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