Charlotte (Heaton) Curtis (1808 - 1893)

Born 1 Jan 1808 in Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

Wife of John Solomon Curtis — married 18 Feb 1819 in Clarke, Alabama, United States

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1893 at age 85 in Double Springs, Winston, Alabama, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Charlotte Heaton was born on January 1, 1808. She was the daughter or granddaughter of Isaac Heaton/Hayden who saved Ft. Sinquefield from the Creek Indians. Upon the end of the war of 1812, Solomon Curtis came across a settlement that had been raided by the Indians while on his way home. Everyone had been killed except for Charlotte, then a little girl only eight years old, that had been scalped and left for dead. Solomon took Charlotte with him and nursed her back to health. Family tradition says Charlotte was bald and wore her head covered constantly because of being scalped.

Solomon and Charlotte settled in Clarke County, Alabama. Eventually, people began to talk about the young girl living with Solomon, so on February 18, 1819, Solomon married the young Charlotte. He was 22; she was 11. Solomon and Charlotte had ten children - nine sons and a daughter. Charlotte died January 11, 1893, at the age of eighty-five. Turbulent weather and impassable road conditions prevented Charlotte from being buried next to Solomon in the Union Grove Cemetery and instead she was buried in the Curtis Cemetery.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36852013/charlotte-curtis

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/1194323/person/-1975674113/facts

• 1860 United States Federal Census

• 1880 United States Federal Census

• Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969; Hunting For Bears

• Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969; Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research