Susannah Curl

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 21 2017, 18:08:02 UTC

Susannah Painter, the ninth and last child of Quakers Susannah (née Stratton) and John Painter, junior, was born on 14 April 1780 in Frederick County, Virginia.* The Painter family was then associated with the Crooked Run Monthly Meeting in Nineveh, now in Virginia's Warren County. Her father passed away in 1801.

Sometime after 1800, Susannah Painter relocated to the vicinity of Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, where a Quaker community had formed. Her brother Jacob Painter settled near Salem in 1802. Her mother and her sister Sarah Holloway also moved there around 1806.

Susannah Painter and Samuel "Curle" were married on 26 July 1809 in Columbiana County, and soon relocated to Logan County, Ohio, where daughters Elizabeth and Rebecca are known to have been born in 1810 and 1817, respectively.

Susannah Curl died on 17 March 1819, probably in Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio.† Samuel Curl remarried later that year and was enumerated in 1820 in Zane Township.

There is no record of the burial of Susannah Curl (née Painter), but given her Quaker affiliation, probable residence, and reported date of death, she may be buried in the Darby Creek Cemetery. A Quaker community had formed in Zane Township at Darby Creek as early as 1804, becoming a monthly meeting in 1811. The meeting house burial ground became known as the Darby Creek Cemetery or Curl Cemetery.

Notes

• Dates of birth for John and Susannah Painter and their children from Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, Births and Burials, 1785, p. 13.

The will of John Painter, junior, (dated 22 Jul 1799, proved 6 Apr 1801) identifies as heirs his "wife Susannah Painter," and "my eight children." Six of his eight living children were named in the will: David, Jacob, Mary, John, Robert, and Susannah. (Robert and Susannah were then unmarried.) The two omitted were married daughters Sarah Holloway and Phebe Oglesby. (Daughter Elizabeth predeceased her father.)

† "Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Susanna Curl [...] Samuel came to Ohio, and was thrice married; first to Susanna Painter by whom he had five children, four now survive—Eliza, now Mrs. [Thomas] Miller; Anna, now Mrs. Harvey; David and Rebecca [now Mrs. Lewis N. Miller]. His wife [Susanna] died March 17, 1819; he died Oct. 15, 1823." (Bio. of Lewis N. Miller in: The History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers, 1882), p. 916.)

"The State of Ohio Columbiana County ss It is hereby certified that Samuel Curle & Susannah Painter was joined together in the Banns of matrimony on the 26th July 1809 Given from under my hand and seal the 9th September 1809 John Burns Record the 9th September 1809 R. Beall Clk" ("Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDLF-PGH : 26 August 2019), Samuel Curle and Susannah Painter, 26 Jul 1809; citing Marriage, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, V 1 P 57, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.)

"I will now speak of John and Susanna's four daughters, / [%E2%80%A6] Susanna Painter married one Samuel Curl, / Samuel was a son of Joseph and Sarah Curl; / Joseph and Sarah Curl's daughter Naomi, / My uncle Jacob Painter's wife proved to be." (Isaac Painter, A Biography of the Painter Family (Marshalltown, Iowa: 1907), p. 5.) Note: Sarah Curl was Samuel's step-mother, and Naomi's mother. The "uncle Jacob Painter" (1794-1846) was the nephew of Susannah Curl (née Painter).

1820 U.S. Census, Zane Twp., Logan Co., Ohio; p. 81 (printed), 7 Aug 1820. [2.] Curl, Samuel. • Four other Curl households were enumerated in the township; also Susannah Curl's nephew, Rev. Joshua Painter.

"Goshen Monthly Meeting, Logan Co., Ohio, is located about one mile east of Zanesfield, Ohio. [...] There was also another meeting not many miles away, on Darby Creek, called Darby Creek. In 1810 meetings for worship were established by Miami Monthly Meeting. Darby became the first monthly meeting in this section, the first monthly meeting being held December 21, 1811. This meeting was discontinued about 1825." (William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. IV (Ohio Monthly Meetings) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994), p. 1269.)

Reviewed 18 August 2021.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 24 2021, 6:50:53 UTC