Currie Community
by Raymond Halliburton

Currie Store located four and one-half miles South West of Dyer at the intersection of Currie Road and the Old Dyersburg Road, has always been considered the center of the Currie Community. The first settlers came from Currie Tuck County in North Carolina. The name Currie Tuck was given or named, for the community which was very appropriate.

As the community grew and many more people moved in, the name was changed to Currie. In earlier years Currie Tuck claimed as its boundaries the Forked Deer on the South, Mud Creek, on the West, Cow Creek on the North, and on the east by Nee Road.

A grocery store was built (1897-1898) and operated by Mr. J. T. Dillion for several years. One part of the store was a post office. Some of the operators of the store in later years were Mr. Coleman Draper, Mr. Will Judy, Mr. Faye Hensley, Mr. H. H. Isbell, Mr. J. T. Davidson, and Mr. J. P. Sims. The store was closed about 1975 when Mr. Sims retired.

Good Hope Methodist Church and Clear Creek Baptist Church have served the community as places for worship more than one hundred years. At one time, there were two other churches about one mile south of the store near Hollis Springs Cemetery. Hollis Springs Church was a Northern Methodist; the other Duck Hill, an Adventist Church.

A number of men from the Currie Community have served in County Court as Magistrates. After being elected, Magistrates would go by the name of Esquire. Some of those that can be recalled as Squires were Mr. Jim Thomas, W. B. Halliburton, Joe T.Hall, Claude Horner, O. T. Love, Lee Hall, Jim Green, and Raymond Hall. Thomas, who was Mr. Pickett Thomas’ father, served as Chairman of the County Court in the late eighteen hundreds.

Mr. Jim Thomas went to the Freed Clothing Store in Trenton one time to buy a pair of shoes for his son, Pickett. He asked Mr. Freed if he would take a check. Mr. Freed said, "You are one of those Currie Tuck boys. Those Currie Tuck boys are all, all right."

Some of the names of the people who settled in the Currie Tuck Community in the 19th Century and the early 20th Century that can be remembered are as Follows: Woodard, Dillion, Balentine, Page, Timmons, Overall, Dickson, Pickard, Robinson, James, Duck, Fletcher, Thomas, Turner, Ashley, Green, Scott, Preslar, Nee, Davidson, West, Hall, Halliburton, Richardson, Terrell, Fisher, Pitt, Crouse, Brown, McCaslin, Barnett, Sims, Forrester, Ray, Smith, Thornton, Love, and Stockton.

J. T. Stockton was a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher as well as a farmer. He was loved by all who knew him. He pastored churches in this area. He married many young couples and preached a great number of funerals. His farm was a part of what is now the James Green farm.

The Currie Community has experienced many changes through the years and it still has the name of a community of fine people.

Compiled by Raymond Halliburton in 1984 or 1985.
submitted by Charles W. McCollum

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