Robert Houston Curry
| Robert Houston Curry | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for Bossier Parish |
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In office 1888–1892 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Warren Ogden |
| Succeeded by | William Benton Boggs |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 26, 1842 Winnsboro Fairfield County South Carolina, USA |
| Died | June 24, 1892 (aged 49) Rocky Mount Community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Rocky Mount Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Margaret Aiken Martin Curry (died 1881) |
| Children |
From first marriage: |
| Parents | Robert Pearson and Caroline Mary Parr Curry |
| Residence | Rocky Mount Community |
| Occupation | Farmer |
| Religion | Presbyterian Church |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 Confederate States Army
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| Battles/wars |
American Civil War Second Battle of Manassas |
(1) Margaret Aiken Martin Curry (died 1881)
From first marriage:
Mary Caroline Curry Bligh
Margaret Eugenia Curry Wooley
From second marriage:
Glenn H. Curry
Annie Belle Curry Boggs
Robert Houston Curry (November 26, 1842 – June 24, 1892) was a Democrat who served a single term from 1888 to 1892 in the Louisiana House of Representatives for his adopted Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Born near Winnsboro in Fairfield County in north central South Carolina, Curry was the younger of two sons of Robert Pearson Curry (1800-1885) and the former Caroline May Parr (1817-1849). His mother died when he was six years of age. He subsequently acquired four half-brothers from his father's second marriage to the former Eliza Harper (1822-1907). Curry was himself twice married as well. From his first union with the former Margaret Aiken Martin Bell (1833-1881), a widow and also a native of Fairfield County, South Carolina who was nine years his senior, he had two daughters who like their father died early in life, Mary Caroline Curry Bligh (1867-1896) and Margaret Eugenia Curry Wooley (1871-1895).
After Margaret's death, he wed Mollie Burdett Banks (1862-1958), a native of Tulip in Dallas County, Arkansas, who was twenty years his junior. Mollie was a great-great-grand-niece of George Washington. Mollie and Robert Curry were married by her father, the Reverend Alexander Robinson Banks (1808-1890), a Presbyterian minister originally from York, South Carolina, who later lived near El Dorado, Arkansas, before moving to the Rocky Mount Community in Bossier Parish, where he was a long-term pastor. Mollie's mother, the former Mary Fitzhugh (1826-1900), was like Robert Curry's mother a Virginia native.
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