Son of James Richard Curtis and Olive Jane (Story) Curtis.
Married to Mary Elizabeth (Catlin) Curtis on August 30, 1891. Father of Beaulah Gertrude, Olive Mae, William Anderson, Hester Lucille, and Rev. Roy Eldridge Curtis.
OBITUARY:
Pastor Dies At Shawnee.
Sullivan and Terre Haute Men Go To Oklahoma To Arrange Funeral.
Sullivan, Ind., March 18.--Abe Curtis, the well-known rural route carrier of this city, received a telegram Thursday from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that his brother, the Rev. W.A. Curtis, died Wednesday night at 11 o'clock after an illness of typhoid fever, extending over a period of three weeks. Charles E. Curtis, of Terre Haute and Abe Curtis, of this city, left at once for Shawnee. No funeral arrangements have yet been made, and it was not known at the time they left whether the body would be brought back to Sullivan for burial.
Rev. W.A. Curtis was born near Walker's Chapel and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Curtis, who reside on a farm seven miles south of Sullivan. He is survived by a wife and three children, Roy, aged 18; Gertrude, aged 13, and Olive May, four years of age.
Rev. Curtis and family moved to the southwest from Palestine, Ill., five years ago, the former having received a call to the pastorate of the First Christian Church at Palestine for a number of years.
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Married to Mary Elizabeth (Catlin) Curtis on August 30, 1891. Father of Beaulah Gertrude, Olive Mae, William Anderson, Hester Lucille, and Rev. Roy Eldridge Curtis.
OBITUARY:
Pastor Dies At Shawnee.
Sullivan and Terre Haute Men Go To Oklahoma To Arrange Funeral.
Sullivan, Ind., March 18.--Abe Curtis, the well-known rural route carrier of this city, received a telegram Thursday from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that his brother, the Rev. W.A. Curtis, died Wednesday night at 11 o'clock after an illness of typhoid fever, extending over a period of three weeks. Charles E. Curtis, of Terre Haute and Abe Curtis, of this city, left at once for Shawnee. No funeral arrangements have yet been made, and it was not known at the time they left whether the body would be brought back to Sullivan for burial.
Rev. W.A. Curtis was born near Walker's Chapel and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Curtis, who reside on a farm seven miles south of Sullivan. He is survived by a wife and three children, Roy, aged 18; Gertrude, aged 13, and Olive May, four years of age.
Rev. Curtis and family moved to the southwest from Palestine, Ill., five years ago, the former having received a call to the pastorate of the First Christian Church at Palestine for a number of years.
~*~ I ONLY LIST FAMILY MEMBERS. ~*~
Son of James Richard Curtis and Olive Jane (Story) Curtis.
Married to Mary Elizabeth (Catlin) Curtis on August 30, 1891. Father of Beaulah Gertrude, Olive Mae, William Anderson, Hester Lucille, and Rev. Roy Eldridge Curtis.
OBITUARY:
Pastor Dies At Shawnee.
Sullivan and Terre Haute Men Go To Oklahoma To Arrange Funeral.
Sullivan, Ind., March 18.--Abe Curtis, the well-known rural route carrier of this city, received a telegram Thursday from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that his brother, the Rev. W.A. Curtis, died Wednesday night at 11 o'clock after an illness of typhoid fever, extending over a period of three weeks. Charles E. Curtis, of Terre Haute and Abe Curtis, of this city, left at once for Shawnee. No funeral arrangements have yet been made, and it was not known at the time they left whether the body would be brought back to Sullivan for burial.
Rev. W.A. Curtis was born near Walker's Chapel and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Curtis, who reside on a farm seven miles south of Sullivan. He is survived by a wife and three children, Roy, aged 18; Gertrude, aged 13, and Olive May, four years of age.
Rev. Curtis and family moved to the southwest from Palestine, Ill., five years ago, the former having received a call to the pastorate of the First Christian Church at Palestine for a number of years.
~*~ I ONLY LIST FAMILY MEMBERS. ~*~
Married to Mary Elizabeth (Catlin) Curtis on August 30, 1891. Father of Beaulah Gertrude, Olive Mae, William Anderson, Hester Lucille, and Rev. Roy Eldridge Curtis.
OBITUARY:
Pastor Dies At Shawnee.
Sullivan and Terre Haute Men Go To Oklahoma To Arrange Funeral.
Sullivan, Ind., March 18.--Abe Curtis, the well-known rural route carrier of this city, received a telegram Thursday from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that his brother, the Rev. W.A. Curtis, died Wednesday night at 11 o'clock after an illness of typhoid fever, extending over a period of three weeks. Charles E. Curtis, of Terre Haute and Abe Curtis, of this city, left at once for Shawnee. No funeral arrangements have yet been made, and it was not known at the time they left whether the body would be brought back to Sullivan for burial.
Rev. W.A. Curtis was born near Walker's Chapel and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Curtis, who reside on a farm seven miles south of Sullivan. He is survived by a wife and three children, Roy, aged 18; Gertrude, aged 13, and Olive May, four years of age.
Rev. Curtis and family moved to the southwest from Palestine, Ill., five years ago, the former having received a call to the pastorate of the First Christian Church at Palestine for a number of years.
~*~ I ONLY LIST FAMILY MEMBERS. ~*~
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