My friends - On this final evening of my visit to the JP region, our posting will come from the JP Vignettes series, drawn primarily from the biographies in the Battle/Perrin/Kniffen work, "History of Kentucky Illustrated". Our subject is Dr. Thomas H. Curd, born in Calloway Co. I spent several hours today at the Marshall County Courthouse, in the Archives area, which is coordinated by the Marshall County Genealogical & Historical Society. I visited with our good friend, Frances Farmer, who is President of that organization, and with several of her colleagues, and I was reminded again by my visit of what an outstanding archive of materials is contained in this collection. Many original documents from Marshall County are available(I found, quite by accident, an Equity Court case file of about 200 pages that had been eluding me for some time), as well as some hundreds of books and other materials on surrounding counties in KY and IL and other states, plus microfilm and many other types of records. Those who may visit the Marshall County Courthouse should not fail to see the archives, which are open from 9 to 3 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. As is now customary, there will be no data posts per se tomorrow or on the weekend. Since I will be travelling, there will be no miscellaneous files offered during this time. We will resume normal postings on Monday. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jackson Purchase Vignettes - Calloway County - Dr. Thomas H. Curd "Thomas H. Curd, MD, was born in Murray, Calloway Co., Ky., on January 3, 1849, and is the third in a family of eight children born to James H. and Elizabeth L. (Frazer) Curd, the former a native of Wadesboro, Calloway County, and the latter of Columbia, Adair County. They are of Irish and Scotch-Irish descent respectively. James H. Curd was married in Adair County and immediately returned to Calloway, where he followed tailoring until about 1861, with the exception of a few years he engaged in merchandising at Murray. During a part of the time he was also engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his other business, on a farm of 360 acres, which he inherited from his father and still owns. For several years also he was a jailer of Calloway County. In 1872 he moved to Adair County, where he bought another farm of 140 acres, one mile north of Columbia on the Campbellsville pike, upon which he now resides and is successfully cultivating. He belongs to no church or secret order, but Mrs. Curd has been from early life a devout member of the Old School Presbyterian Church. Dr. Curd received a good classical and scientific education in the schools of his native county and at the Columbia College. For the first two years after attaining his majority he was employed on the home farm, after which he was engaged as salesman in a drug store at Columbia for another two years. He was then elected marshal of the town of Columbia, and held that position for something over a year. He then commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Melvin Rhoel, of Columbia, and in 1877 commenced his medical course at the medical department of the University of Louisville, graduating with distinguished honors in the spring of 1879. He has since practiced with success at Columbia, with the exception of fourteen months, when he was located at Camp Knox, Green County. Dr. Curd married December 17, 1884, Miss Mattie, daughter of William Moses, of Louisville, where she was born in 1680. The Doctor is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and his wife of the Missionary Baptist Church; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Democrat." -History of Kentucky, Illustrated Battle/Perrin/Kniffen Louisville: Battey Publishing Co., 1886 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++