The following information was passed down to me from my grandmother and was probably given to her by Ruby and George Clay. I believe they are deceased so I cam posting this for anyone to read and use:

Curry Family

At present our knowledge of the Curry Family dates back only to 1813 in Georgia. We do know that the family immigrated to America from the British Isles, from either Scotland or Ireland. Macvurrich (later Curry) was of the Clan MacDonald of Clan Ranald. This clan inhabited the islands Rum the Eigg in the strait between Scotland and England, and no doubt were among those Scots who settled on the north cost of Ireland. The name is still represented there.

Immigrants of both Scotch and Irish nationality settled in the Carolinas and Georgia in the mid-18th Century.

James M. Curry – 1813-188

James was born in Georgia, grew to manhood, married and sired three of his children there. The family moves to Chambers County, Alabama about 1845, where James farmed for about ten years. The family returned to Georgia, this time to Campbell County where they remained until they immigrated to Texas in the 1870’s. James M. and Martha Curry had nine children:


Mary B: 1842 M. Rutledge
William 1844
Sarah 1845
John 1847
George Washington 1850
Martha E. 1853
Masoura 1855
Andrew J. 1858
Fannie M. John Herbst

While in Chambers County, Alabama, James lived near a Robert M. Curry, who could have been his father or uncle.

In Texas, the Curry’s settled in Dallas County where James died and is buried.

George Washington Curry –1850--1925

George Washington Curry was born in Chambers County Alabama, but grew to manhood in Campbell County, Georgia, where he went to school with the brothers of the girl he was to meet and marry after the two families immigrated to Texas.

George Washington and Mary Catherine married in the little log cabin that served as a Court House in Dallas (the cabin still stands on the grounds on Record Street in downtown Dallas), and after the birth of their first child they moved to a farm near Rienzi in Hill County. In 1885 the family moved to Fischer County, where they remained until after the birth of Annie Mae in 1892. George returned his family to Hill County and settled on 100 plus acres of land near Hubbard. He farmed and dabbled in land and city lots until shortly before his death. Both he and Mary Catherine are buried at Hubbard. ***

Mary Catherine and George Washington had nine children:

John Franklin B 30 Aug 1878 M. Mary Thompson
James Matson B. 4 Apr 1880 M.
Arthur Lee B. 26 Feb 1882 N. Esther
2. Cora
George Thomas B. 8 Aug 1884 M. Lura Thompson
Ada Lorena B. 20 Jun. 1886
Grover Cleveland B: 25 June 1889 M. Mable Stapleton
Annie Mae B. 1892 M. J. T. Spray
Minnie Catherine B. 26 Jan. 1894 M. Joe. Griffin
Saphonnie Elizabeth B. 9 Aug 1896 M. Sorrelle
2. W. R. (Bill) Johnson)

***In an autobiography written by Grover Cleveland Curry he states the family moved to Fisher County in the early spring of 1889, settling in a little village called Claytonville, consisting of one General Merchandise Store, a Post office and a “Saw Bone” Doctor. At that time they had five children. They filled a “Homesteaders Claim” on two sections of land in the middle of what was known as the “Eighteen Ranch”. On June 25, 1889, he, Grover Cleveland, was born, making the sixth child in the family. After nearly four years of drought and starvation of their cattle, they moved back to Hill County, settling on a small farm two miles south of “Ash Creek” in the northern edge of the old W. W. Seeley Ranch. In December of 1903 the Curry family bough and moved to a farm two miles north of Hubbard, Texas.

Grover Cleveland Curry – 1889-1961

Grover Cleveland was born on June 25, 1889 in Claytonville, Texas, in Fischer County. At the age of approximately four years his family moved back to Hill County, settling near “Ash Creek”. In 1903 the curry family moved to a farm two miles north of Hubbard, Texas. After finisher the prescribed studies taught in the lower grades, he attended Sam Houston Normal Institute and received a Teacher’s Certificate. In February 1913, after teaching school for two years, he entered the oil industry and spent all but eighteen months of the rest of his life in that industry.

Grover Cleveland married Mable Clair Stapleton on August 6,1913. They were married by the Rev. L.D. Grafton Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Hubbard, Texas, Sitting in a buggy in front of the Pastor’s home. They made their home in Hubbard until December 1917, when they moved to Colorado, Texas. In August of 1918 they moved to Hillsboro, Texas. After living in Corsicana, Texas, for eighteen months (September 1920- March 1922 they returned to Hillsboro, where they lived the rest of their lives.

Grover Cleveland and Mable Clair had four children:

William Warren B. 2 June 1914 M. Johnnie Lee Fawcett
Oliver Neal B. 24 June 1916
D. 1 Nov. 1930
Carroll Cleveland B. 7 Dec 1921 M. Alice Sue Underwood
Letrice Joy B. 15 Oct 1931 M. Charles R. Crowe
2 Burrell L. Bingham

Grover Cleveland died on May 7, 1961 of a heart attack, and is buried in Hillsboro Cemetery beside his wife, Mable Clair, who died on May 26, 1959, of a stroke.