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Mollie Burdett Banks Gray

Birth
Tulip, Dallas County, Arkansas, USA
Death
17 May 1958 (aged 96)
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Mollie Banks Curry Gray of Plain Dealing, Louisiana filed a Confederate Widows Pension Application in Bossier Parish on March 19, 1931. She was born at Tulip in Dallas County Arkansas on April 16, 1862, the daughter of Rev. Alexander R. Banks of Bolivar, Tennessee & Mary B. Fitzhugh of Alexander, Virginia. Rev Banks was the Minister of the Presbyterian Church at Rocky Mount.

Rev A.R. Banks married Robert Houston Curry & Mollie Banks on Janurary 10, 1889.

Robert Houston Curry was born near Winnsboro in the Fairfield District of South Carolina on November 26, 1842. He enlisted at Alston, South Carolina on August 31, 1861 and was captured at the Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864. He was later turned over to a Confederate Agent for exchange and paroled at the Appromattox Court House on April 19, 1865. Robert H. Curry 1st married a widow, Mrs. Charles Bell; her maiden name was Margaret Martin, who was also a native of Fairfield, South Carolina.

Robert Houston Curry died on June 24, 1892 and is buried in the Rocky Mount Cemetery in Bossier Parish.

Mollie Banks Curry 2nd married J. S. Gray on February 13, 1908 and he died on October 15, 1928.

Mollie Banks Curry Gray remained a resident of Plain Dealing until July of 1948 and moved to Shreveport, Louisiana to live with her daughter Mrs. W. B. Boggs. She returned to Plain Dealing in 1949 and remained there until 1957 and again moved to Shreveport to live with her son, Robert H. Curry. Mollie Banks Curry Gray died of Arteriosclerosis on May 17, 1958 in Shreveport and is buried in the Forest Park Cemetery in Caddo Parish. Robert H. Curry of Shreveport, Annie Belle Curry Boggs of Shreveport and Glenn H. Curry of Texarkana, Texas signed as heirs on her death notice to the State Pension Board.

Mollie Banks Curry Gray of Plain Dealing, Louisiana filed a Confederate Widows Pension Application in Bossier Parish on March 19, 1931. She was born at Tulip in Dallas County Arkansas on April 16, 1862, the daughter of Rev. Alexander R. Banks of Bolivar, Tennessee & Mary B. Fitzhugh of Alexander, Virginia. Rev Banks was the Minister of the Presbyterian Church at Rocky Mount.

Rev A.R. Banks married Robert Houston Curry & Mollie Banks on Janurary 10, 1889.

Robert Houston Curry was born near Winnsboro in the Fairfield District of South Carolina on November 26, 1842. He enlisted at Alston, South Carolina on August 31, 1861 and was captured at the Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864. He was later turned over to a Confederate Agent for exchange and paroled at the Appromattox Court House on April 19, 1865. Robert H. Curry 1st married a widow, Mrs. Charles Bell; her maiden name was Margaret Martin, who was also a native of Fairfield, South Carolina.

Robert Houston Curry died on June 24, 1892 and is buried in the Rocky Mount Cemetery in Bossier Parish.

Mollie Banks Curry 2nd married J. S. Gray on February 13, 1908 and he died on October 15, 1928.

Mollie Banks Curry Gray remained a resident of Plain Dealing until July of 1948 and moved to Shreveport, Louisiana to live with her daughter Mrs. W. B. Boggs. She returned to Plain Dealing in 1949 and remained there until 1957 and again moved to Shreveport to live with her son, Robert H. Curry. Mollie Banks Curry Gray died of Arteriosclerosis on May 17, 1958 in Shreveport and is buried in the Forest Park Cemetery in Caddo Parish. Robert H. Curry of Shreveport, Annie Belle Curry Boggs of Shreveport and Glenn H. Curry of Texarkana, Texas signed as heirs on her death notice to the State Pension Board.



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