Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: Samuel Hamiltion CURRY ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , 1998. ************************************************************************** SAMUEL HAMILTION CURRY - born in Monroe County, (now) West Virginia, May 2, 1836, was a son of Josiah and Sarah (NICKELL) CURRY. His mother was born in Monroe County, his father in Augusta County, Virginia. The former died in Ohio, the latter died in 1845. In the war between the States, Samuel H. CURRY was a member of Company C, 132d Ohio Infantry, enlisting May 1, 1864, and serving the Government through the last year of the war in the army of the Potomac, Anderson CURRY, his cousin, was a soldier of the Confederacy, and killd [sic] in the service. At Irish Corner, Greenbrier County, November 2, 1882, Samuel H. CURRY married Susan Rebecca HALLOWELL, who was born in Richmond, Virginia, May 27, 1835. She was a daughter of Joshua HALLOWELL, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth E. (PULLIN) HALLOWELL, who was born near Richmond, Virginia, September 15, 1796. (Her parents are no longer living.) Samuel H. CURRY owns 180 acres of good land, well improved, watered and timbered. It has several springs of superior medicinal qualities, and is well located. He has been a consistent and useful member of the Presbyterian Church for ten years, and his wife joined the Methodist Church early in life, and has been constant in her religious faith ever since. The postoffice address of Samuel H. CURRY is Monroe Draft, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. [From THE MONROE WATCHMAN, Thursday, December 9, 1909: Mrs. Susan CURRY, of Irish Corner, widow of the late Sam CURRY, was taken to the home for incurables at Huntington on No. 1, Thanksgiving night. Her mind had been failing for several years, and she was haunted with the idea that some persons had determined to kill her and were hiding nearby for that purpose. In view of her age (some 76 years) she was deemed incurable. She was Miss HALLOWELL before her marriage. -- W. Va. News] 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.