Individual Details
Curcheville Charles FURR
(May 9, 1836 - August 13, 1895)
Curcheville married Nancy Jane in Henry County, Indiana, and then they started west to Monmouth, Illinois, to Iowa, and finally to Nebraska where Nancy died. After Curcheville married a second time to Augusta Hooper, he had been kicked by a horse and never recovered. He later died from stomach cancer. While he was very sick he wanted badly to go home and they started to travel across the country and went to Missouri where several of his children settled. They remained there a short while and leaving some of the children with the families in Missouri, they went back home to Monmouth where Curcheville died. He is buried in the Monmouth Cemetery. Grace and Frances were left with family to be raised in Missouri when Gussie went back to Nebraska and later in time Frances disappeared. Grace remained in Missouri and married Ira Blann.
Events
Families
Spouse | Nancy Jane BEASON (1844 - 1883) |
Child | Frederick Franklin "Fred" FURR (1866 - 1939) |
Child | Jennie Lenetta FURR (1869 - 1905) |
Child | Clara Belle FURR (1872 - 1918) |
Child | Benjamin Grant FURR (1874 - 1940) |
Child | Della May FURR (1876 - 1959) |
Child | Hattie Jane FURR (1878 - 1904) |
Child | Asa Curchevill "Ace" FURR (1881 - 1961) |
Child | Abigail Rebecca FURR (1883 - 1883) |
Spouse | Augusta Catherine HOOPER (1868 - 1917) |
Child | Living |
Child | Grace Hazel FURR (1889 - 1959) |
Child | Gertrude Ethel FURR (1891 - 1941) |
Child | Living |
Child | Charles Churcheville FURR (1893 - 1967) |
Father | Jeremiah Charles FURR (1801 - 1888) |
Mother | Abigail Miriah CARR (1801 - 1896) |
Sibling | Desdemona FURR (1829 - 1905) |
Sibling | Sylvester FURR (1831 - 1854) |
Sibling | Franklin FURR (1833 - 1836) |
Sibling | Baker C. FURR (1834 - 1924) |
Sibling | Feldon FURR (1838 - 1838) |
Sibling | Nellie Vernelia FURR (1840 - 1886) |
Sibling | Emma Virginia FURR (1842 - 1919) |
Sibling | Granville G. FURR (1844 - 1901) |
Sibling | Vienna Anna "Vianna" FURR (1847 - 1891) |
Sibling | Charles Slathia FURR (1851 - 1933) |
Sibling | Albert Francis FURR (1854 - 1909) |
Notes
Military
Name: Churchill Furr ,Residence: Monmouth, Illinois
Enlistment Date: 25 May 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
State Served: Illinois
Unit Numbers: 340 340
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 25 May 1861
Enlisted in Company F, 17th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 25 May 1861.
Reenlisted in Company F, 17th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 23 December 1863
Name: Churchville Furr ,
Residence: Monmouth, Illinois
Enlistment Date: 23 December 1863
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
State Served: Illinois
Unit Numbers: 416 416
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 23 December 1863
Transferred 17th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 23 December 1863
Enlisted in Company D, 8th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 26 December 1863.
Mustered out Company D, 8th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 02 February 1865
Pension application # 619385 (Missouri)
Endnotes
1. Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.
2. findagrave.com.