Archer Cemetery(Age 79 Yrs. 4 MO. 9 Da.)
Elenor Aberetta Curtis Hart was the daughter of Newman and Maria Van Bergen Curtis of Berkshire Co., MA and then Orleans County, New York. Most of this family then moved to Iowa in 1856. Newman and Maria had 14 children: Catherine (Nash), Lyman J., Ann E.(Whitney), William V., Harriet V. (Post), Newman, Jr., John L., Martha J.(Carl), Edwin G., Elenor A. (Hart), Lora D., Mary E.(Whaite), Henry C. and Wilbur F.
She married Leonard Wells Hart on July 4, 1855 in Buchanan County, Iowa. Mr. Hard was a lawyer in Independence, Iowa and a state Senator from Buchanan County, Iowa. He was one of he signers of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on slavery, March 30, 1866. The family moved to Seward, Nebraska in the 1870's. In June 1880 the Harts moved to Archer City, Archer, County, Texas where Mr. Hart was the first county attorney, first deputy sheriff, and was a land agent and later became Judge Hart. He, with T.M. Coulson, transcribed the Archer Co., Tx records from Clay Co., Tx. Judge Hart was superintendent of the first Sunday School. He was foremost in almost every cause for the up-building of the county and the city. Mr. and Mrs. Hart were members of the Methodist Church. The 1900 census gives Mrs. Hart as the mother of 11 children but only 5 are recorded in this record: baby (died young), Frank (b. 1857), Lillian (b. 1867), and Beaumont (born 1870).
Source: The Curtis Book by Rozetta and Leo Guess, 1993
Archer Cemetery(Age 79 Yrs. 4 MO. 9 Da.)
Elenor Aberetta Curtis Hart was the daughter of Newman and Maria Van Bergen Curtis of Berkshire Co., MA and then Orleans County, New York. Most of this family then moved to Iowa in 1856. Newman and Maria had 14 children: Catherine (Nash), Lyman J., Ann E.(Whitney), William V., Harriet V. (Post), Newman, Jr., John L., Martha J.(Carl), Edwin G., Elenor A. (Hart), Lora D., Mary E.(Whaite), Henry C. and Wilbur F.
She married Leonard Wells Hart on July 4, 1855 in Buchanan County, Iowa. Mr. Hard was a lawyer in Independence, Iowa and a state Senator from Buchanan County, Iowa. He was one of he signers of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on slavery, March 30, 1866. The family moved to Seward, Nebraska in the 1870's. In June 1880 the Harts moved to Archer City, Archer, County, Texas where Mr. Hart was the first county attorney, first deputy sheriff, and was a land agent and later became Judge Hart. He, with T.M. Coulson, transcribed the Archer Co., Tx records from Clay Co., Tx. Judge Hart was superintendent of the first Sunday School. He was foremost in almost every cause for the up-building of the county and the city. Mr. and Mrs. Hart were members of the Methodist Church. The 1900 census gives Mrs. Hart as the mother of 11 children but only 5 are recorded in this record: baby (died young), Frank (b. 1857), Lillian (b. 1867), and Beaumont (born 1870).
Source: The Curtis Book by Rozetta and Leo Guess, 1993
Family Members
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Catherine Van Bergen Curtis Nash
1819–1910
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Lyman Junnis Curtis
1820–1910
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Ann Elizabeth Curtis Whitney
1822–1909
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William Van Bergen Curtis
1824–1905
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Harriet Newell Curtis Post
1826–1902
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Newman Curtis
1828–1905
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Dr John Lackland Curtis
1830–1880
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Martha Jane Curtis Carl
1832–1915
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Edwin Gates Curtis
1834–1863
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Lora Dexter Curtis
1838–1898
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Mary Elizabeth Curtis Whaite
1840–1869
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Henry Clay Curtis
1841–1930
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Wilbur Fisk Curtis
1843–1929
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