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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Robert Houston Curry
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for Bossier Parish
|term_start=1888
|term_end=1892
|preceded=Henry Warren Ogden
|succeeded=William Benton Boggs
|birth_place=Winnsboro, Fairfield County [[South Carolina]], USA
|birth_date=November 26, 1842
|death_date=June 24, 1892 (aged 49)
|death_place=Rocky Mount Community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana
|resting_place=Rocky Mount Cemetery
|residence=Rocky Mount Community
|spouse=(1) Margaret Aiken Martin Curry (died 1881) 
(2) Mollie Burdett Banks Gray (married 1889-1892, his death)
|children=From first marriage: 
Mary Caroline Curry Bligh 
Margaret Eugenia Curry Wooley 
From second marriage: 
Glenn H. Curry 
Annie Belle Curry Boggs 
Robert H. "Bob" Curry
|parents=Robert Pearson and Caroline Mary Parr Curry
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|occupation=[[Farming|Farmer]]
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|allegiance=[[Confederate States of America}}
|branch=CSA Army
|battles=[[American Civil War]] Second Battle of Manassas Spotsylvania Courthouse, [[Virginia]]
|rank=
}}

'''Robert Houston Curry''' (November 26, 1842 – June 24, 1892) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who served a single term from 1888 to 1892 as a state representative for his adopted Bossier Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Bossier Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

==Background==

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).<ref name=rhcfagrave/>

After Margaret's death, he wed Mollie Burdett Banks (1862-1958), a native of Tulip in 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).<ref name=rhcfagrave/>

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.<ref name=rhcfagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=7477735&df=all&|title=Robert Houston Curry|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie was a great-great-grand-niece of [[George Washington]].<ref name=mns>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/81845061/|title=Oldest Descendant Of First President Succumbs At 93|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=May 19, 1958|page=7|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47856466|title=Rev. Alexander Robinson Banks|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie's mother, the former Mary Fitzhugh (1826-1900), was like Robert Curry's mother a [[Virginia]] native.<ref name=rhcfagrave/><ref name=molliecurry/>

==Career==

On August 31, 1861, at the age of eighteen, Curry enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Army in Alston, South Carolina. A year later, he was shot in the ankle in the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in Virginia. The wound plagued him for the remainder of his life. He was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864, subsequently turned over to a Confederate agent for exchange, and paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 19, 1865, ten days after [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to [[U.S. Grant]].<ref name=molliecurry/>

A [[Farming|farmer]], Curry was affiliated with the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry]]. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He died at the age of forty-nine in the Rocky Mount Community a few weeks after the end of his legislative term. He is interred at the Rocky Mount Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curry.html#086.05.27|title=Curry, Robert H.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

==Legacy==

In 1908, Mollie Banks Curry married James Samuel Gray (1859-1928), a native of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15935606|title=James Samuel Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> "Miss Mollie," as she was known, was living in [[rural]] Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish when on March 19, 1931, shortly before her sixty-ninth birthday, she filed an application for a Confederate widows pension in Bossier Parish.<ref name=molliecurry>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89586179|title=Mollie Burdett Banks Curry Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

Mollie subsequently moved to [[Shreveport]], where she resided for a year with her daughter, then returned to Plain Dealing, and finally moved again to Shreveport to reside the last year of her life with a son. When she died in the spring of 1958, her surviving children were listed as Annie Belle Curry Boggs, wife of W. B. Boggs, Jr.; Robert H. "Bob" Curry,<ref>It is unclear if Robert H. "Bob" Curry is Robert Houston Curry, Jr.; he did not use the "Junior," as his father died when he was too young to remember him.</ref> a member of the elected Louisiana State Board of Education for the 4th congressional district<ref name=mns/> and past president of the Norwella Council of the [[Boy Scouts]] of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2528971/|title=Scouts and Fathers to Meet at Annual Banquet Tonight|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=March 9, 1937|page=1|accessdate=October 19, 2020 and Glenn H. Curry (1889-1958) of Texarkana, [[Texas]],<ref name=mns/> who died five months after his mother's passing and is interred at Hillcrest Cemetery in Texarkana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Glenn&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112169193&df=all&|title=Glenn H. Curry|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie Curry Gray is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=molliecurry/>

Robert Houston Curry was succeeded in the legislature in 1892 by William Benton Boggs]<ref name=legis/> whose son married Mollie's daughter.<ref name=molliecurry/>

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-On August 31, 1861, at the age of eighteen, Curry enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Army in Alston, South Carolina. A year later, he was shot in the ankle in the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in Virginia. The wound plagued him for the remainder of his life. He was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864, subsequently turned over to a Confederate agent for exchange, and paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 19, 1865, ten days after [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to [[U.S. Grant]].<ref name=molliecurry/>
+On August 31, 1861, at the age of eighteen, Curry enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Army in Alston, South Carolina. A year later, he was shot in the ankle in the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in Virginia. The wound plagued him for the remainder of his life. He was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864, subsequently turned over to a Confederate agent for exchange, and [[parole]]d at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 19, 1865, ten days after [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to [[U.S. Grant]].<ref name=molliecurry/>
 A [[Farming|farmer]], Curry was affiliated with the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He died at the age of forty-nine in the Rocky Mount Community a few weeks after the end of his legislative term. He is interred at the Rocky Mount Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=

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−	'''Robert Houston Curry''' (November 26, 1842 – June 24, 1892) was a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]] who served a single term from 1888 to 1892 as a state representative for his adopted Bossier Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=legis>{{cite web\|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf\|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Bossier Parish\|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives\|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>	+	'''Robert Houston Curry''' (November 26, 1842 – June 24, 1892) was a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]] who served a single term from 1888 to 1892 as a state representative for his adopted [[Bossier City\|Bossier Parish]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=legis>{{cite web\|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf\|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Bossier Parish\|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives\|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

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 In 1908, Mollie Banks Curry married James Samuel Gray (1859-1928), a native of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15935606|title=James Samuel Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> "Miss Mollie," as she was known,  was living in [[rural]] Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish when on March 19, 1931, shortly before her sixty-ninth birthday, she filed an application for a Confederate widows pension in Bossier Parish.<ref name=molliecurry>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89586179|title=Mollie Burdett Banks Curry Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>
-Mollie subsequently moved to [[Shreveport]], where she resided for a year with her daughter, then returned to Plain Dealing, and finally moved again to Shreveport to reside the last year of her life with a  son. When she died in the spring of 1958, her surviving children were listed as Annie Belle Curry Boggs, wife of W. B. Boggs, Jr.; Robert H. "Bob" Curry,<ref>It is unclear if Robert H. "Bob" Curry is Robert Houston Curry, Jr.; he did not use the "Junior," as his father died when he was too young to remember him.</ref> a member of the elected Louisiana State Board of Education for the 4th congressional district<ref name=mns/> and past president of the Norwella Council of the [[Boy Scouts]] of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2528971/|title=Scouts and Fathers to Meet at Annual Banquet Tonight|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=March 9, 1937|page=1|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> and Glenn H. Curry (1889-1958) of Texarkana,  [[Texas]],<ref name=mns/> who died five months after his mother's passing and is interred at Hillcrest Cemetery in Texarkana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Glenn&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112169193&df=all&|title=Glenn H. Curry|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie Curry Gray is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=molliecurry/>
+Mollie subsequently moved to [[Shreveport]], where she resided for a year with her daughter, then returned to Plain Dealing, and finally moved again to Shreveport to reside the last year of her life with a  son. When she died in the spring of 1958, her surviving children were listed as Annie Belle Curry Boggs, wife of W. B. Boggs, Jr.; Robert H. "Bob" Curry,<ref>It is unclear if Robert H. "Bob" Curry is Robert Houston Curry, Jr.; he did not use the "Junior," as his father died when he was too young to remember him.</ref> a member of the elected Louisiana State Board of Education for the 4th congressional district<ref name=mns/> and past president of the Norwella Council of the [[Boy Scouts]] of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2528971/|title=Scouts and Fathers to Meet at Annual Banquet Tonight|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=March 9, 1937|page=1|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> and Glenn Hamilton Curry (1889-1958) of Texarkana,  [[Texas]],<ref name=mns/> who died five months after his mother's passingFfindagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie Curry Gray is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=molliecurry/>
 Robert Houston Curry was succeeded in the legislature in 1892 by William Benton Boggs]<ref name=legis/> whose son married Mollie's daughter.<ref name=molliecurry/>

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 After Margaret's death, he wed Mollie Burdett Banks (1862-1958), a native of Tulip in 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).<ref name=rhcfagrave/>
-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.<ref name=rhcfagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=7477735&df=all&|title=Robert Houston Curry|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie was a great-great-grand-niece of [[George Washington]].<ref name=mns>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/81845061/|title=Oldest Descendant Of First President Succumbs At 93|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=May 19, 1958|page=7|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47856466|title=Rev. Alexander Robinson Banks|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie's mother, the former Mary Fitzhugh (1826-1900), was like Robert Curry's mother a [[Virginia]] native.<ref name=rhcfagrave/><ref name=molliecurry/>
+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.<ref name=rhcfagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=7477735&df=all&|title=Robert Houston Curry|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie was a great-great-grand-niece of [[George Washington]].<ref name=mns>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/81845061/|title=Oldest Descendant Of First President Succumbs At 93|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=May 19, 1958|page=7|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47856466|title=Rev. Alexander Robinson Banks|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie's mother, the former Mary Fitzhugh (1826-1900), was like Robert Curry's mother a [[Virginia]] native.<ref name=rhcfagrave/><ref name=molliecurry/>
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 On August 31, 1861, at the age of eighteen, Curry enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Army in Alston, South Carolina. A year later, he was shot in the ankle in the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) in Virginia. The wound plagued him for the remainder of his life. He was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864, subsequently turned over to a Confederate agent for exchange, and paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 19, 1865, ten days after [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender to [[U.S. Grant]].<ref name=molliecurry/>
-A [[Farming|farmer]], Curry was affiliated with the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry]]. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He died at the age of forty-nine in the Rocky Mount Community a few weeks after the end of his legislative term. He is interred at the Rocky Mount Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=
+A [[Farming|farmer]], Curry was affiliated with the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He died at the age of forty-nine in the Rocky Mount Community a few weeks after the end of his legislative term. He is interred at the Rocky Mount Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=
 http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curry.html#086.05.27|title=Curry, Robert H.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

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 Robert Houston Curry was succeeded in the legislature in 1892 by William Benton Boggs]<ref name=legis/> whose son married Mollie's daughter.<ref name=molliecurry/>
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 |death_place=Rocky Mount Community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana
 |resting_place=Rocky Mount Cemetery
 |spouse=(1) Margaret Aiken Martin Curry (died 1881)<br>
 (2) Mollie Burdett Banks Gray (married 1889-1892, his death)
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 |occupation=[[Farming|Farmer]]
 |religion=[[Presbyterian]]
-|allegiance=[[Confederate States of America}}
+|allegiance=[[Confederate States of America]]
 |branch=CSA Army
-|battles=[[American Civil War]]<br>Second Battle of Manassas<br>Spotsylvania Courthouse, [[Virginia]]
+|battles=[[American Civil War]]<br>Second Battle of Manassas<br>Spotsylvania Courthouse, [[Virginia]]}}
 '''Robert Houston Curry''' (November 26, 1842 &ndash; June 24, 1892) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]  who served a single term from 1888 to 1892 as a state representative for his adopted Bossier Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=legis>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Bossier Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>

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