Buried in unmarked grave in Marshall Cemetery.
Daughter of Reuben Harris JACKSON & Barbara DICE
Wife of Hugh CURLIN
Mother of Sarah Ann, Emily, Harriet, James, Joanna Jackson, Naomi, Juritha Jane, Mexico America and Jesse Horace - all surname CURLIN
NEWSPAPER:
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Friday, December 30, 1892
p.5, col.3
MARSHALL NOTES.
Insane Woman Burned to Death - Celebrates her 90th Anniversary.
MARSHALL, Tex., Dec. 29. - .......Phoebe Curlin, one of the oldest citizens of this county, having lived here since 1839, celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday. She has 112 descendants. Her health is good an up to last summer she could read fine print without glasses.
RE: Phoebe Curlin
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Thursday, January 5, 1893
p. 4, col. 5
A TEXAS LANDMARK.
She Celebrates her 90th Birthday - An Honored Lady.
MARSHALL, Harrison Co., Tex., Jan. 3. - One of the most interesting persons in Marshall at present is Mrs. Phoebe Curlin, generally known as "Grandma Curlin,", a notice of whose 90th birthday was published several days since. She is the oldest living inhabitant of this, Harrison county. She was born in Virginia on Dec. 28, 1892 and was raised in Wilson county, Tennessee, thirty miles from Nashville. Her maiden name was Jackson. She was married to Hugh Curlin at 17 years of age. They had eight children, only two of whom are now living, Jesse Curlin, residing in west Texas, and Mrs. Mexico Curlin (who married her cousin, Wils Curlin), with whom "grandma" now lives. She has 112 descendants, including one of the fifth generation.
In 1839 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Curlin moved to this county, settling on the Sabine river at what was then called Greensboro, but now known as Boards ferry, thirteen miles south of Marshall. On account of the river being navigable during a part of the year it was intended to make that the county seat, but it was afterward changed although there were seven families who had to break up and move to this place. Belzora was the name of the small boat that ran to Greensboro and it made its last trip in the fall of 1845 or 1846.
Hugh Curlin died on Nov. 13, 1843. Mrs. Curlin has lived here since the first settlers reached this city, and remembers when there was nothing at all but trees and bushes here. She has been confined to her bed for the last twenty-one years, caused by a dislocated hip from a misstep. She retains her faculties remarkably well. She can read without glasses, hears loud conversation, and remembers and repeats poetry and chapters of the Bible learned in her youth. She repeated several verses of poetry to THE NEWS man that she memorized when 12 and 20 years old. She remembers and can name the governors and capitals of each of the United States.
She cannot talk much at a time on account of a catarral affection of the throat and tongue, but is willing, and tries to talk as long as she can keep any one interested. She says she was introduced to Gen. Sam Houston at a concert in Tennessee in 1819. Says there was not a hostile Indian within ten miles of the Greensboro settlement when they came to Texas, but htere had been in 1835, a short time before, when seven out of a family of eight by the name of Trammell were massacred by the savages. She also speaks of what occurred seven months before her arrival. It was the killing of a man by the name of Davis, Mrs. Martin's clothes being shot through and through, and the wounding of her 18-months-old babe, all in one house, by the Indians. The babe's was a flesh wound in the hip.
Mrs. Curlin is the only person living here now that settled here when she came, since the death of Judge O. Hendrick last summer. She has been a member of the Methodist church for many years; has never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors in any form, and parties who have lived in the house with her for thirty-five years say that they never saw her mad. Mrs. Curlin's life has been an uneventful one, but she cheerfully gave THE NEWS reporter any information she could, saying that she felt like this was the last new year she would see.
Daughter of Reuben Harris JACKSON & Barbara DICE
Wife of Hugh CURLIN
Mother of Sarah Ann, Emily, Harriet, James, Joanna Jackson, Naomi, Juritha Jane, Mexico America and Jesse Horace - all surname CURLIN
NEWSPAPER:
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Friday, December 30, 1892
p.5, col.3
MARSHALL NOTES.
Insane Woman Burned to Death - Celebrates her 90th Anniversary.
MARSHALL, Tex., Dec. 29. - .......Phoebe Curlin, one of the oldest citizens of this county, having lived here since 1839, celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday. She has 112 descendants. Her health is good an up to last summer she could read fine print without glasses.
RE: Phoebe Curlin
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Thursday, January 5, 1893
p. 4, col. 5
A TEXAS LANDMARK.
She Celebrates her 90th Birthday - An Honored Lady.
MARSHALL, Harrison Co., Tex., Jan. 3. - One of the most interesting persons in Marshall at present is Mrs. Phoebe Curlin, generally known as "Grandma Curlin,", a notice of whose 90th birthday was published several days since. She is the oldest living inhabitant of this, Harrison county. She was born in Virginia on Dec. 28, 1892 and was raised in Wilson county, Tennessee, thirty miles from Nashville. Her maiden name was Jackson. She was married to Hugh Curlin at 17 years of age. They had eight children, only two of whom are now living, Jesse Curlin, residing in west Texas, and Mrs. Mexico Curlin (who married her cousin, Wils Curlin), with whom "grandma" now lives. She has 112 descendants, including one of the fifth generation.
In 1839 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Curlin moved to this county, settling on the Sabine river at what was then called Greensboro, but now known as Boards ferry, thirteen miles south of Marshall. On account of the river being navigable during a part of the year it was intended to make that the county seat, but it was afterward changed although there were seven families who had to break up and move to this place. Belzora was the name of the small boat that ran to Greensboro and it made its last trip in the fall of 1845 or 1846.
Hugh Curlin died on Nov. 13, 1843. Mrs. Curlin has lived here since the first settlers reached this city, and remembers when there was nothing at all but trees and bushes here. She has been confined to her bed for the last twenty-one years, caused by a dislocated hip from a misstep. She retains her faculties remarkably well. She can read without glasses, hears loud conversation, and remembers and repeats poetry and chapters of the Bible learned in her youth. She repeated several verses of poetry to THE NEWS man that she memorized when 12 and 20 years old. She remembers and can name the governors and capitals of each of the United States.
She cannot talk much at a time on account of a catarral affection of the throat and tongue, but is willing, and tries to talk as long as she can keep any one interested. She says she was introduced to Gen. Sam Houston at a concert in Tennessee in 1819. Says there was not a hostile Indian within ten miles of the Greensboro settlement when they came to Texas, but htere had been in 1835, a short time before, when seven out of a family of eight by the name of Trammell were massacred by the savages. She also speaks of what occurred seven months before her arrival. It was the killing of a man by the name of Davis, Mrs. Martin's clothes being shot through and through, and the wounding of her 18-months-old babe, all in one house, by the Indians. The babe's was a flesh wound in the hip.
Mrs. Curlin is the only person living here now that settled here when she came, since the death of Judge O. Hendrick last summer. She has been a member of the Methodist church for many years; has never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors in any form, and parties who have lived in the house with her for thirty-five years say that they never saw her mad. Mrs. Curlin's life has been an uneventful one, but she cheerfully gave THE NEWS reporter any information she could, saying that she felt like this was the last new year she would see.
Buried in unmarked grave in Marshall Cemetery.
Daughter of Reuben Harris JACKSON & Barbara DICE
Wife of Hugh CURLIN
Mother of Sarah Ann, Emily, Harriet, James, Joanna Jackson, Naomi, Juritha Jane, Mexico America and Jesse Horace - all surname CURLIN
NEWSPAPER:
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Friday, December 30, 1892
p.5, col.3
MARSHALL NOTES.
Insane Woman Burned to Death - Celebrates her 90th Anniversary.
MARSHALL, Tex., Dec. 29. - .......Phoebe Curlin, one of the oldest citizens of this county, having lived here since 1839, celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday. She has 112 descendants. Her health is good an up to last summer she could read fine print without glasses.
RE: Phoebe Curlin
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Thursday, January 5, 1893
p. 4, col. 5
A TEXAS LANDMARK.
She Celebrates her 90th Birthday - An Honored Lady.
MARSHALL, Harrison Co., Tex., Jan. 3. - One of the most interesting persons in Marshall at present is Mrs. Phoebe Curlin, generally known as "Grandma Curlin,", a notice of whose 90th birthday was published several days since. She is the oldest living inhabitant of this, Harrison county. She was born in Virginia on Dec. 28, 1892 and was raised in Wilson county, Tennessee, thirty miles from Nashville. Her maiden name was Jackson. She was married to Hugh Curlin at 17 years of age. They had eight children, only two of whom are now living, Jesse Curlin, residing in west Texas, and Mrs. Mexico Curlin (who married her cousin, Wils Curlin), with whom "grandma" now lives. She has 112 descendants, including one of the fifth generation.
In 1839 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Curlin moved to this county, settling on the Sabine river at what was then called Greensboro, but now known as Boards ferry, thirteen miles south of Marshall. On account of the river being navigable during a part of the year it was intended to make that the county seat, but it was afterward changed although there were seven families who had to break up and move to this place. Belzora was the name of the small boat that ran to Greensboro and it made its last trip in the fall of 1845 or 1846.
Hugh Curlin died on Nov. 13, 1843. Mrs. Curlin has lived here since the first settlers reached this city, and remembers when there was nothing at all but trees and bushes here. She has been confined to her bed for the last twenty-one years, caused by a dislocated hip from a misstep. She retains her faculties remarkably well. She can read without glasses, hears loud conversation, and remembers and repeats poetry and chapters of the Bible learned in her youth. She repeated several verses of poetry to THE NEWS man that she memorized when 12 and 20 years old. She remembers and can name the governors and capitals of each of the United States.
She cannot talk much at a time on account of a catarral affection of the throat and tongue, but is willing, and tries to talk as long as she can keep any one interested. She says she was introduced to Gen. Sam Houston at a concert in Tennessee in 1819. Says there was not a hostile Indian within ten miles of the Greensboro settlement when they came to Texas, but htere had been in 1835, a short time before, when seven out of a family of eight by the name of Trammell were massacred by the savages. She also speaks of what occurred seven months before her arrival. It was the killing of a man by the name of Davis, Mrs. Martin's clothes being shot through and through, and the wounding of her 18-months-old babe, all in one house, by the Indians. The babe's was a flesh wound in the hip.
Mrs. Curlin is the only person living here now that settled here when she came, since the death of Judge O. Hendrick last summer. She has been a member of the Methodist church for many years; has never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors in any form, and parties who have lived in the house with her for thirty-five years say that they never saw her mad. Mrs. Curlin's life has been an uneventful one, but she cheerfully gave THE NEWS reporter any information she could, saying that she felt like this was the last new year she would see.
Daughter of Reuben Harris JACKSON & Barbara DICE
Wife of Hugh CURLIN
Mother of Sarah Ann, Emily, Harriet, James, Joanna Jackson, Naomi, Juritha Jane, Mexico America and Jesse Horace - all surname CURLIN
NEWSPAPER:
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Friday, December 30, 1892
p.5, col.3
MARSHALL NOTES.
Insane Woman Burned to Death - Celebrates her 90th Anniversary.
MARSHALL, Tex., Dec. 29. - .......Phoebe Curlin, one of the oldest citizens of this county, having lived here since 1839, celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday. She has 112 descendants. Her health is good an up to last summer she could read fine print without glasses.
RE: Phoebe Curlin
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Tex., Thursday, January 5, 1893
p. 4, col. 5
A TEXAS LANDMARK.
She Celebrates her 90th Birthday - An Honored Lady.
MARSHALL, Harrison Co., Tex., Jan. 3. - One of the most interesting persons in Marshall at present is Mrs. Phoebe Curlin, generally known as "Grandma Curlin,", a notice of whose 90th birthday was published several days since. She is the oldest living inhabitant of this, Harrison county. She was born in Virginia on Dec. 28, 1892 and was raised in Wilson county, Tennessee, thirty miles from Nashville. Her maiden name was Jackson. She was married to Hugh Curlin at 17 years of age. They had eight children, only two of whom are now living, Jesse Curlin, residing in west Texas, and Mrs. Mexico Curlin (who married her cousin, Wils Curlin), with whom "grandma" now lives. She has 112 descendants, including one of the fifth generation.
In 1839 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Curlin moved to this county, settling on the Sabine river at what was then called Greensboro, but now known as Boards ferry, thirteen miles south of Marshall. On account of the river being navigable during a part of the year it was intended to make that the county seat, but it was afterward changed although there were seven families who had to break up and move to this place. Belzora was the name of the small boat that ran to Greensboro and it made its last trip in the fall of 1845 or 1846.
Hugh Curlin died on Nov. 13, 1843. Mrs. Curlin has lived here since the first settlers reached this city, and remembers when there was nothing at all but trees and bushes here. She has been confined to her bed for the last twenty-one years, caused by a dislocated hip from a misstep. She retains her faculties remarkably well. She can read without glasses, hears loud conversation, and remembers and repeats poetry and chapters of the Bible learned in her youth. She repeated several verses of poetry to THE NEWS man that she memorized when 12 and 20 years old. She remembers and can name the governors and capitals of each of the United States.
She cannot talk much at a time on account of a catarral affection of the throat and tongue, but is willing, and tries to talk as long as she can keep any one interested. She says she was introduced to Gen. Sam Houston at a concert in Tennessee in 1819. Says there was not a hostile Indian within ten miles of the Greensboro settlement when they came to Texas, but htere had been in 1835, a short time before, when seven out of a family of eight by the name of Trammell were massacred by the savages. She also speaks of what occurred seven months before her arrival. It was the killing of a man by the name of Davis, Mrs. Martin's clothes being shot through and through, and the wounding of her 18-months-old babe, all in one house, by the Indians. The babe's was a flesh wound in the hip.
Mrs. Curlin is the only person living here now that settled here when she came, since the death of Judge O. Hendrick last summer. She has been a member of the Methodist church for many years; has never used tobacco or intoxicating liquors in any form, and parties who have lived in the house with her for thirty-five years say that they never saw her mad. Mrs. Curlin's life has been an uneventful one, but she cheerfully gave THE NEWS reporter any information she could, saying that she felt like this was the last new year she would see.
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