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August 19, 1932 Otto Curry married Irene Elliott Nelson. They were married by John M. Madden, a Justic of the Peace, at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Irene was the daughter of Thomas Hatton Nelson and Fannie Alma Elliott. During their marital years they lived on Kellar and Curry Drive...an area later demolished by the airport / interstate expansion by the Kentucky Fairgrounds exit. Irene died at the age of 77 at Norton Hospital in Louisville. Her funeral was at McDaniel Funeral Home on Park Blvd. and she was laid to rest in a mausoleum beside Otto at Evergreen Cemetery. She was a loving, peaceful, giving, easy going lady. She loved genealogy and was always my friend. She always looked out for me, made sure I had what I needed, took me to church, taught me to wash my hands before I ate, laid down with me until I fell asleep and WOW could she cook!!! We had great parents but we had great grandparents also! What a bonus!

I miss the fluffed up feather pillows and mattresses, the talks beside the cedar chest about the family memoirs it contained. I miss the clean smells, the homemade mustard potato salad and the delicious fried cabbage cooked up in the iron skillet. I miss the talks of encouragement about taking things one day at a time. I miss the big stuffed purse full of papers, including the treats we had to dig around for in there...chewing gum, lifesavers, etc..,

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Rosetta Curry (circled in photograph) was born 1912 in Hart County, the daughter of Rebecca Ellen Druen and Willis Green Curry. It was always stressed to us to cut away from ourselves because of what had happened to Rosetta. She had a knot in her shoe string and was cutting it out with a knife. She pulled it towards herself in the process and accidentally poked her eye. She died at the age of 13, the year was 1925. We can only assume the death at such a young age was any relation to her eye injury which is visible in this photograph. The boy in the tie is her brother, Otto. Photographs were taken at her funeral in Pike View. Her young school mates were there ... the young girls posed with the flower bouquets. For a small community there was quite a crowd there. (Kentucky Scenes link for photograph of Rosetta's funeral at Pike View Cemetery)

When Mema and I used to visit Pike View Cemetery years ago there were trees as there are in the funeral photograph. The caretakers in more recent years have taken the trees out to protect the cemetery and it's many markers.

John Robert Nelson was born April 6, 1863, in Larue County, the son of Thomas Nelson and Susan Childress. He married Mary Ann Price, daughter of Hatton Price, March 15, 1887 and they had:

1) Marshall Nelson b. 12/25/1887

2) Thomas Hatton Nelson b. 12/1/1889

3) Lizzie Nelson 9/1891

4) Monroe Nelson b 11/26/1894

5) Oscar Nelson 1898

6) Charlie "Charley" Nelson b 1903

Mary Ann Price Nelson passed away in 1907 and was buried at Pleasant Grove.

He later married Amanda "Mandy" Ann Cissell (daughter of Robert Cissell and Eliza Simpson), in 1913 and they had:

1) infant Nelson (premature birth - lived only a day) b 6/22/1914

2) Rosy / Rosa / Rosie Nelson b 6/27/1915

3) John "Johnny" R. Nelson b 6/7/1918

4) Susan Nelson b 1920

John died October 23, 1940 at the age of 77 in Louisville, Ky. His remains were taken to McDaniel Funeral Home on Park Blvd., (Louisville, Jefferson County) and his final resting place was at Pleasant Grove in White City, Larue County.

Amanda Cissell Nelson died December 12, 1929. She was 51 years of age. Her remains are also at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in White City.

Monroe Nelson was born November 26, 1894, the son of John Robert Nelson and Mary Ann Price. He was born in Larue County and lived in the areas of Athertonville and New Haven. He married Pearl _____ and by 1930 they were living in Champaign, Illinois. They had the following children:

1) Ralph Nelson

2) Dorothy Nelson

3) Charles Nelson

4) William Nelson

Monroe passed away May 1, 1982 at the Burnham Hospital in Champaign, Illinois. He was laid to rest at the PrairieView Cemetery in Savoy, Illinois.

Caroline Thompson Elliott was the widow of John Lewis Elliott who fought for the Union in the Civil War. She was the daughter of James Thompson & Sarah Jane Rachford. She married at the home of her father, October 8, 1857 in Larue County, Kentucky. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in White City, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. After her husband passed away (burial at Rolling Fork Cemetery in Gleanings, Larue County) she filed for a widows pension. In her later years she moved into Louisville She died at the age of 78 and was laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery on Preston Highway, Jefferson County, Kentucky. This photograph was taken in Louisville.

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This photograph was probably taken 1910-1918.

Sudie was the daughter of James Squire Elliott & Florence Belle Redman. She was the granddaughter of Caroline Thompson Elliott. In her childhood years she was a resident of Larue County (Athertonville) and by the age of 20 she was living in Highland Park in Jefferson County. She married William E. Braden and they had Elsie, Ruby, Jimmy, Rosa and Loretta. She passed away at the age of 79 and was laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery with family members, James, Florence, Fannie, William and Elsie May.

This photograph was probably taken between 1912-1922. That's estimating she was between the ages of 20-30 when this photograph was taken.

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