General Notes

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Tombstone - Oakwood Cemetery - Section 2 Huntsville, Walker County, Texas
Birth certificate of Marion Edward Curtis, her son born 22 Oct 1872 when
she was 40 [i.e. 43], dated 18 Jun 1943. Huntsville, Walker County, Texas
Daughter of William Samuel & Jane Elizabeth Voss; m. Jesse Curtis of
Huntsville, Texas; born: June 1, 1829 (or 1831) died: June 18, 1913;
daughter in a well-to-do southern family; uncle named Stone - Plantation;
plantation in Virginia - Walnut Grove (Walnut Hill Farm) went to boarding
school - took own silver; small woman, dark hair, no moles on her body;
well educated, taught music & art at Andrew Female College in Huntsville,
Tx; Lived with Dr. & Mrs. M.E. Curtis (her son & his wife); shouting
Methodist; lineal descendant (?) of Laurence Sterne; M.E. Curtis' mother
(FCS) saying, she remembered, Negro slave, old negro slave who say, "Durn
you 'ternal niggers, I saw Cornwallis surrender." very poor - Jesse &
F.C.S. Curtis - tried farming on the west side of Walker county, Tx; 2
room cabin on stilts where M.E. Curtis was born; son born in 1872 - M.E.
Curtis; son was devoted to his mother; six silver teaspoons - out of coin
silver; taught son (M.E. Curtis) all his formal education, well founded
in the classics; hypochondriac to get attention; M.E. Curtis went to
Dallas in a wagon to pick up (get) a square piano for his mother; moved
to town, Jesse Curtis worked for prison, lived in Stringtown, east of the
prison (source: interview with Frances Ingram - 1983 middle name -
Camora/Comora/Crimora ? don't know which spelling m. Jessie Curtis of
Huntsville, Texas where they resided until death. Their one son Edwd.
still lives there and is Phys. to Sam Houston Col. Houston, Tex. [sic],
is married and has a family Andrew Female College - est in 1852,
chartered - Feb. 7, 1853 under Methodist Church jurisdiction; operated
until 1879
and possibly til 1887