The Tom Curtis Family Home Page
Updated November 16, 2009
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Thomas
R
Curtis
1903 Rolling Hills Ave SE
Renton,
Washington
98055
A-United States
425-226-0140
olddeadkin@comcast.net
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Richard Curtis, Sr. was born in 1728 but the place of birth is unknown. Richard was bonded to Robert Courtney in Baltimore Co., Md. in 1739. Robert moved his family to Onslow Co., NC in 1744 where he died in 1751. Meanwhile, Richard married Robert's daughter, Phoebe, after the death of her first husband, William Jones. William and Phoebe had one son, John Jones. By the early 1760's several of the Courtney children including Richard and Phoebe obtained land grants in SC near the Pee Dee river south of Society Hill. Most of the Courtney and Curtis men were patriots and several of them fought in a volunteer militia unit headed by Elias Dubose. In 1780 Richard took his extended family and left the area because of the hostility between the loyalists and the patriots. They travelled overland to Kingston, Tn. and then travelled by flat boat down the Holsten, Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Natchez District. When they arrived in 1781 they were given land grants on Coles Creek by the Spanish who controlled the territory. Richard Curtis Jr. b. 1755 in NC, d. 1811 in Ms., is recognized as the first Baptist minister in the Mississippi territory. Richard defied an order to quit preaching and was forced to flee and return to SC in 1795. The Spanish Governor, Manuel Gayoso, sent a posse to arrest Richard. With the help of a brave woman by the name of Chole Holt Richard and two assistants fled the territory on horseback. A large marble grave stone errected by the Mississippi Baptist Historical Society marks his grave in the middle of a cow pasture in Amite Co. near Ebenezer Baptist Church founded by Richard in 1806. My dear cousin, Bonnie Cole, took my father and I to this site in 1998. I want to acknowledge and thank my cousin, Jack Curtis of Cleveland Ms., who has spent countless hours researching the Curtis family and written several books. As they say, "he is the man," when it comes to Curtis family research. I also want to acknowledge Camellia Denys for her fine work on the book, "Coles Foot Prints." I am truly grateful for all of the work they have done. Some of the other families I am researching in Ms./La./Tx. region are Stampley, Cole, Divine, Killian, Galtney, Prichard, and Brown.
My mother's family hails primarily from Ct. and Pa. Two of her great grand fathers, Elijah Shaff (Iowa 27th) and Daniel Rawdon (Wisconsin 40th), fought in the Civil War. The ancestors on the Rawdon side of the family can be traced all the way back to the Mayflower. Mayflower families that I am descended from include; Howland, Tilley, Winslow, and Bradford. I have been able to contact several of my Schaff, Bailey, and Rawdon cousins who have contributed to the data included here. Surprisingly, Charles Schaff changed the spelling of the family Surname by adding a 'c.' I don't know how or why this happened. I am especially interested in tracing the Schaff and Bailey families back further. The earliest Bailey I have found in George W. Bailey b. 1811 in Centre Co., Pa. and died in Feb 1870 in Centre Co, Pa. On the Shaff side the furthest I am able to currently go is Frederick Shaff b. abt. 1752 in Dutchess Co., NY and died 1859 in Tioga Co. NY Yes he was 107 years old. Please contact me if you can help me or vice versa I can help you. I have been collecting family pictures and would love to share them with my cousins.
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- Bailey children taken about 1906 (133 KB)
This is a photo of Milton and Ella Mae Bailey's children taken about 1906. Montana the youngest child wasn't yet born.
- Helen Bailey (33 KB)
This picture of Helen (my mother) was taken when she graduated from the nursing program at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Montana about 1941.
- Emaline Jesse Brown age 16 (93 KB)
Emaline married Thomas Sydney Curtis
- Helen Bailey (30 KB)
This picture of my mother was taken about 1925 on her grandfather's diary ranch outside of Miles City, Montana.
- The 'Pig Picture' (76 KB)
I believe the two men in the center of the photo on top of the steps are Thomas Simpson Curtis, looks like Teddy Roosevelt, and his son, William Dexter Curtis
- Thomas Sydney Curtis b. 1878 d. 1918 (22 KB)
This is a picture of my great grand father as a young man probably taken shortly after the turn of the century.
- Helen Bailey (13 KB)
I definitely get my looks from my mother's side of the family.
- L to R Sylvia, Alice, Howard, Frank (110 KB)
Four of the Schaff children (Sylvia, Alice, Howard, Frank) taken about 1906-7
- Two Curtis Boys ?? (20 KB)
I have imported a picture of my grandfather between the two men I believe are his brother, William Dexter Curtis and father, Thomas Sydney Curtis
- Helen Bailey (26 KB)
Helen on the grounds behind the Holy Roseary Hospital in Miles City.
- Emaline Jesse Brown age 19 or 20 (147 KB)
Emaline is my grandmother, chronic high blood pressure and subsequent renal failure cut her life short at the age of 53 so I never knew her.
- George Killian Spanish Land Grant (227 KB)
This is a photocopy of the 600 acre land grant George Killian received
- 1739 Baltimore Co., Maryland Orphan's Court Record (341 KB)
This is an actual photocopy of the Orphan's court record. I have taken the liberty to clean it up some.
- Helen Bailey (51 KB)
Helen appears to be eight or nine years old, picture taken about 1930.
- Abraham Galtney land grant (124 KB)
Here we see George Killian giving Abraham Galtney one half of his original 600 acre land grant.
- November 1738 Orphan's Court Record (71 KB)
This is an actual photocopy of the Baltimore Co. Orphan's Court record where Richard Curtis, Sr. is first bonded to William Cook. This is the first record we have of Richard.
- Thomas Sydney Curtis family photo (144 KB)
Thomas Sydney Curtis family photo taken about 1911, Jo Sydney (died young) and Dorothy are the children
- Daniel Rawdon (42 KB)
Newspaper article about Daniel Rawdon, Civil War veteran.
- Jake Curtis (29 KB)
This is a picture of my father taken in the early 30's on 3rd. Ave in Seattle.
- Frank and Alice Schaff (74 KB)
Frank and Alice Schaff
- Daniel Rawdon (71 KB)
Newspaper article upon the occassion of Daniel's death in South Dakota.
- Jake Curtis & his mother Emma Jesse Brown (28 KB)
This picture was taken in Volunteer Park in Seattle on the day that Jake's sister, Dorothy, married Charles Hornaday.
- Charles and Hattie Schaff (299 KB)
Charles and Hattie with their first son Clyde abt. 1894
- Mrs. Daniel Rawdon passes away (64 KB)
Newspaper article about the death of Matilida Rawdon.
- Emma Jesse Brown (249 KB)
This picture was probably taken in Ellensburg, Wa. before the annual rodeo.
- Matilda and Daniel Rawdon's Celebrate 60 years (49 KB)
Newspaper article about the 60th Wedding anniversary of the Rawdons.
- Raymond Bailey (51 KB)
This picture of my grandfather was taken in the early 1890's in Spokane, Wa.
- Hattie Rawdon (180 KB)
Hattie Rawdon married Charles Schaff, Hattie is descended from several families that came over on the Mayflower
- Myrtle & Roland Schaff (126 KB)
Myrtle and Roland were the two youngest of the Schaff children. The picture is taken about 1920.
- Ebenezer Baptist Church, Amite Co., Mississippi (72 KB)
This is a picture of me in front of the Ebenezer Baptist church founded by my fourth great grand father, Richard Curtis, Jr. in 1806.
- Emma Jesse Brown (58 KB)
This is one of the last pictures taken of my grandmother Curtis before her death during WWII.
- Ella Mae Bailey (31 KB)
Ella Mae had a twin sister who died at birth.
- Raymond Bailey (64 KB)
Ray worked on his father, Milton Bailey's, diary ranch outside of Miles City, Mt. eventually taking over the place.
- Ella Mae Bailey (37 KB)
Ella Mae was born in 1936 and was named after her grandmother, Ella Mae (Bronson) Bailey
- Raymond Bailey (62 KB)
Long hard years working a diary ranch took it's toll on Ray, here he is looking much older than his age, 59.
- Ella Mae Bailey (117 KB)
Ella Mae tragically passed away from a cogenital heart defect in 1997.
- Bonnie Cole and Tom Curtis (61 KB)
In October 1997 Bonnie Cole took me to the sight of Richard Curtis, Jr's. gravesite in the middle of a cow pasture.
- Alice Bailey with Helen and Hazel Ann (39 KB)
This picture was taken about 1931. Helen is ten and Hazel Ann about one year old.
- Mildred Curtis (34 KB)
Mildred is my father's first cousin. She lives in Hattiesburg, Ms. Mildred fixed us a great lunch.
- Hazel Ann & Ella Mae Bailey (94 KB)
Picture taken on the old diary farm in Miles City, Montana about 1939.
- Nellie Frances Prichard (48 KB)
The Prichard family cemetery near Canton, Ms. This is my great grand mother Prichard.
- Hazel Ann Bailey (28 KB)
Hazel Ann was in High School, Miles City Hi.
- Prichard Family Reunion and Cemetery Cleaning (83 KB)
In October of 1998 a group of Prichard descendants met to clean up the family cemetery near Canton, Ms.
- Hazel Ann Bailey (34 KB)
Another great picture of Hazel Ann taken around the end of WWII.
- Joseph H. Brown Obituary (146 KB)
Joe Brown, my great grand father, died tragically in a boarding house fire.
- Richard Curtis, Jr. (200 KB)
150 year celebration at the gravesite of Richard Curtis, Jr., the first Baptist preacher in Mississippi
- Emaline (Brown) Curtis (32 KB)
Picture of Emaline taken about 1919 in De Queen Arkansas
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