Brief Life History of William J
When William J Curry was born on 8 October 1835, in Coles, Illinois, United States, his father, James E Curry, was 44 and his mother, Mary Ellis, was 40. He married Elizabeth Moore on 10 December 1855, in Coles, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ash Grove Township, Shelby, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Richland Township, Shelby, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 21 August 1916, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ash Grove Cemetery, Windsor, Shelby, Illinois, United States.
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- Wm Curry in household of Mary Curry, "United States Census, 1850"
- Wm. J. Curry, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- William J. Curry, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Comhraidhe, ‘descendant of Comhraidhe’, a personal name of uncertain meaning.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Corra (see Corr ).
Scottish and northern English: variant of Currie .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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