Marion ("Mack") Curfman was born July 27, 1888 on the family farm near Reedy, West Virginia. His parents were James Washington Curfman (1863-1950) and Mary Elizabeth Conrad (1863-1944) who married January 1, 1884 and had four children: Ezra Curfman born Nov. 29, 1884, Ivey Dell Curfman born Dec. 17, 1886, Mack Curfman born July 27, 1888 and Rosco Curfman born May 9, 1892. By about 1890 the family moved to Frozen Camp, Jackson County, West Virginia, about twenty miles from Reedy and ten miles from the Ohio River. Mack's father James Washington Curfman was born during the Civil War, the second of nine children born to Samuel Henry and Mary Ann (Cain) Curfman. James was a farmer and handy with other business lines, including teamstering oxen to haul logs to local mills and other work that he could find.
Additional information provided by Helen Contrell Hawver as part of a Parsons family history shared with Ezra Curfman in the 1960's: "Madison M. Curfman (as she calls Mack), he studied for a lawyer, and then went west to Oregon, where he was a sheep herder, until his Mother got sick and he had to come back and help Ivey take care of her. He had a store in Parkersburg, in 1928 in the building he owned, beside where Ivey lived, which he sold to Sheleen.... he married Thelma Headley, no children. She worked at the Viscoe for several years. They moved to Silverton, Oregon where he lived to be almost 100"
Military Information: PVT, US MARINE CORPS
Additional information provided by Helen Contrell Hawver as part of a Parsons family history shared with Ezra Curfman in the 1960's: "Madison M. Curfman (as she calls Mack), he studied for a lawyer, and then went west to Oregon, where he was a sheep herder, until his Mother got sick and he had to come back and help Ivey take care of her. He had a store in Parkersburg, in 1928 in the building he owned, beside where Ivey lived, which he sold to Sheleen.... he married Thelma Headley, no children. She worked at the Viscoe for several years. They moved to Silverton, Oregon where he lived to be almost 100"
Military Information: PVT, US MARINE CORPS
Marion ("Mack") Curfman was born July 27, 1888 on the family farm near Reedy, West Virginia. His parents were James Washington Curfman (1863-1950) and Mary Elizabeth Conrad (1863-1944) who married January 1, 1884 and had four children: Ezra Curfman born Nov. 29, 1884, Ivey Dell Curfman born Dec. 17, 1886, Mack Curfman born July 27, 1888 and Rosco Curfman born May 9, 1892. By about 1890 the family moved to Frozen Camp, Jackson County, West Virginia, about twenty miles from Reedy and ten miles from the Ohio River. Mack's father James Washington Curfman was born during the Civil War, the second of nine children born to Samuel Henry and Mary Ann (Cain) Curfman. James was a farmer and handy with other business lines, including teamstering oxen to haul logs to local mills and other work that he could find.
Additional information provided by Helen Contrell Hawver as part of a Parsons family history shared with Ezra Curfman in the 1960's: "Madison M. Curfman (as she calls Mack), he studied for a lawyer, and then went west to Oregon, where he was a sheep herder, until his Mother got sick and he had to come back and help Ivey take care of her. He had a store in Parkersburg, in 1928 in the building he owned, beside where Ivey lived, which he sold to Sheleen.... he married Thelma Headley, no children. She worked at the Viscoe for several years. They moved to Silverton, Oregon where he lived to be almost 100"
Military Information: PVT, US MARINE CORPS
Additional information provided by Helen Contrell Hawver as part of a Parsons family history shared with Ezra Curfman in the 1960's: "Madison M. Curfman (as she calls Mack), he studied for a lawyer, and then went west to Oregon, where he was a sheep herder, until his Mother got sick and he had to come back and help Ivey take care of her. He had a store in Parkersburg, in 1928 in the building he owned, beside where Ivey lived, which he sold to Sheleen.... he married Thelma Headley, no children. She worked at the Viscoe for several years. They moved to Silverton, Oregon where he lived to be almost 100"
Military Information: PVT, US MARINE CORPS
