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At the age of nineteen, Curtis obtained liecement of the n«i of Ute family to iiansfer their reeideuce to the Great VV^i, aid alter a journey of eight tedious week* over the rugged inouo*lainf, they rtjoiucd their friend* at Hillsboro, inHighland county, Ohio. It in worthy of remark, that iu Virginia, neither the wealthy (traudsire,nor auv of hif descendants ever used slavea.—#-Curtis rented a cottage for ht» mother and threeaietet.% but belot# long lie louud the latter all married aud himself and mother alone, liethereupon, a* he elate*, considered what heshould do to mnkt* her happy, and coticlud«*d to uiarry a certain atUaciivc young widow, ofthirty-aix years, “ol good report, pious, and well disposed He was then not twenty years. Locating his wife and mother together, he de«voud himself arduously to “trying to mike a living,’* aud “and louud the labor ol bis hands blessed abundantly, so that before long be was tomloi ubly fixed iu hi* sphere o( Hie.” Then new territories were discovered bevond the Mississippi and he was suit led after them andwas successful in his locations aud continued outhe gaming hand abundantly. Iu the town ofDanby, Hendricks county, Indiana, his motherdied and was buried, at the age of one hundred and three years. Her name was Obedience, and site was the daughter ol Colonel Blackwell, of Virginia, a connection ol the Lundy of JohnRandolph of Roanoke. Subsequently Curtis and bis increasing family removed to Richland township, Wapello county, Iowa, near the lies Motors n»er, where tney have now nided nearly sixteen teats. Ue has now been iweuty-fiveyears married to Lis second wife, who is just half his age, or forty one years, and was sixteen when united in marriage aub him, he being then fifty seven years old By her he has nine sons andthree daughters, and by his former wife had six sons and three daughters—in all tweuly onechildren. The Iri-h anlt;nator, Curtis’s grandfather, I.red to the age pf handled and fifteen vears, and was six let t ami six loche* in stature.•flpr ■ ■ f rSevaral of Curtis's unch s were seven feel in height, and lived to an extreme old age. His mother’s father migrated from K iglanu to Virginia, and hete lived upon the rental ol bis ancestral estates iu the old country. After his demise, the oldest son, Curtis Blackwell, removed from America to Kngland, to manage the estateof hut fattier.The venerable Iowan has been in active mill tary servilt;*e siuce the 25th of t »ctobcr lash He may well oe excumd a feeling of pride in bis j«er*onal history sod antecedents, and a desire that the f arts of bis life and family, sitice they have a x »u d curiosity ana comment, should b • correctly pabMabed. May he oe spared to hail the return ol peace and the restoration of theUnion!—1 Mo. Hem.
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 17, 1863
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