John Curry (abt. 1800)

Born about 1800 in Ireland

Descendants

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

John Curry, a native of Ireland, who migrated to the United States as a young man and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here he met Mrs. Douglas, a native of Newtown-Dumnavada, Ireland, who had come to the United States as a little girl of nine years of age, and whose first husband and his two sons had been killed in the battle of Brandywine. Mr. Curry and Mrs. Douglas were married and together moved to Moon township in the western part of Pennsylvania at a time when the Indians and wild animals of many sorts were common. Here, in what was then a wilderness, he bought a farm of one hundred and ten acres, which he cleared of the wild growth and built upon it a log house and barn, the house having a puncheon floor. Here the two passed the remainder of their lives. John Curry and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church in which belief they reared their family of children, whose names were as follows: 1. John, who lived for many years on the homestead, and finally removed to Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, where he died. 2. William, of whom further. 3. Sally, who became the wife of Andrew McKinley, and died in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 1, p. 393-394)