Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 645-646 [Graves]

     JAMES R. CURTCHFIELD.  Residing near the town of Wingo and
ranking with the representative farmers of Graves county, is found
James R. Curtchfield.  He is a native son of the Bluegrass state,
his birth occurring in Todd county, Kentucky, in 1845.  His father,
Edward H. Curtchfield, was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia,
in 1800, and was a son of William Curtchfield, also a native of that
county, but who removed to Todd county in 1803 and there engaged in
agricultural pursuits.  In William Curtchfield's family were fifteen
children who grew to years of maturity.  Edward H. Curtchfield was
married in 1842 to Jane Landrum, who was born in 1817, and was a
daughter of John Landrum, a native of Prince Edward county,
Virginia.  The latter moved to Christian county, Kentucky, in 1803,
where he, too, followed the life of a farmer, and he became the
father of ten children who grew to years of maturity.  In the family
of Edward H. and Jane Curtchfield were four children, namely: John
W., who was a saddle and harness maker in Todd county, and his death
occurred in 1886, when seventy years of age; James R.; Mary Jane,
the wife of Adolphus Campbell, a carpenter in Indian Territory; and
Nancy J., the wife of J. R. Pyler, an undertaker in Christian
county, Kentucky.
     James R. Curtchfield received an excellent education in
Hopkinsville College of Christian county, and after leaving the
schoolroom he embarked in the tobacco business in Christian county. 
The year 1868 witnessed his arrival in Graves county, where he is
now the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of excellent farming
land, and as an agriculturist his efforts have been attended with a
high and well merited degree of success.  After his arrival in
Graves county Mr. Curtchfield was united in marriage to Miss Mattie
Meenam, their wedding being celebrated in 1869, and the following
named children have been born to them: Edward H., an employe [sic]
of the Illinois Central Railroad Company; Henry L., engaged in the
tobacco business at Madisonville, Kentucky; Gertrude, the wife of
Boliver Dodson, a farmer and stock-raiser of Hickman county, this
state; Amaryllis, who was employed as clerk by D. J. Slaughter at
Wingo; Lexie, who is employed in the same capacity at Mayfield, this
state; and Willard, a student at Wingo.  In his political
affiliations Mr. Curtchfield has been a life-long Democrat, and in
1884 he was elected chairman of the Democratic central committee, of
which position he is still the incumbent.  His career has been an
active, useful and honorable one, and his name is found on the roll
of the representative citizens of Graves county.

Curtchfield Landrum Campbell Pyler Meenam Dodson Slaughter
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Todd-KY Prince Edward-VA Christian-KY Hickman-KY

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