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From: "T. Thompson" <>
Subject: [INOWEN] Roll Call- ASHER/BROWN, CURRY, BARTLETT, LITTELL, DONALDSON, SEATON...
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:15:27 -0500
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Sorry I cannot help with your Catherine Brown... but this is a little
history as
taken from the book "Owen County Indiana ~a history~ 1994".

THE CURRY FAMILY
It is true the name Curry is not a well known name in Owen County today
though the descendants of Thomas Curry had a lasting influence on the
area.

Thomas Curry of Jefferson County, Kentucky married Sarah McCarty,
daughter of Nicholas McCarty of the same area. Among their children were
six daughters who married and whose families helped populate the eastern
portion of Owen County and the western townships of Morgan County.
Literally hundreds of their descendants are citizens of this area today.

Mary Elizabeth Curry married Rodham Seaton and their descendants are
found among the Seatons, Risingers, Donaldson, and Littells of Owen
County history. Anne Curry married James Thompson. Descendants married
into the Gregson, Fidler and other area families though most of this
line subsequently moved on westward. Sarah Curry married Isaac Braiser
and marriages in this line were with the Walters, McGinnis, and
Alexander families. Catherine Curry married James Farr and later day
Owen County descendants include the Wilsons, Burtons, and Stierwalts.

Sisters Margaret and Jane Curry married brothers Bartlett and John Asher
in Kentucky before moving to the Owen County area. Their descendants
represent the largest number of Curry descendants to be found today in
the vicinity of Gosport. In this line are also found many descendants of
William Mcintosh Walters and Catherine Asher; Richard C. Walters and
Frances Asher; Frederick Stierwalt and Mary Jane Asher; and Henry
Hancock and Charlotte Asher to mention only a few.

Martha Donaldson, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Kenner (Seaton)
Donaldson and granddaughter of Rodham and Mary Elizabeth (Curry) Seaton
married Milo D. Littell, son of Abraham and Jerusha Elizabeth (Van
Buskirk) Littell. Milo Littell was born in 1816 in Clark County,
Indiana and was six years of age when his parents came to Owen County.
Here he grew to manhood and spent many years carrying the products of
the area down the White, Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans on a flat-boat. He would then sell his produce, dispose of the
logs of his craft, and walk the Natchez Trace northward to Nashville,
Tennessee and then the Indian trails back to Gosport, Indiana. The trip
would take as much as three months to complete. Milo Littell continued
this practice until he was almost 40 years of age before he married and
settled down to a life of farming. Submitted kv Noble K. Lurch of
Sebring, Florida, sixth great grandson of Rodham and Mary Elizabeth
(Curry) Seaton and great grandson of Milo D. and Martha (Donaldson) Lute
11.
Milo D. and Martha Ann (Donalfson) Littell about 1875.

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Nancy Havill Wortman wrote:
>
> Joseph ASHER b. 2/5/1812 in Jefferson Co., KY, son of John and Jane H.
> Curry ASHER, m. Catherine BROWN 8/25/1831 in Spencer, Owen Co., IN. Would
> like Catherine's siblings and parents. Catherine b. 8/29/1810 in KY, d.
> 12/16/1891. Joseph d. 7/29/1889 in Hendricks Co., IN.
>
> Children:
> Mary m. Edward Combs TRUAX
> Endemile m. Diego Mandez WEST
> Milton m. Melissa WEST
> Arlita m. (1) George W. GOLDEN, (2) William M. STEELE
> Alexander m. Rhoda Ann DUNNIGAN
> Madison m. Mollie E. WALTERS
> Sarah m. Egan ESTES
>
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