Thomas Creekmore McCurry

4 viii.   Thomas Creekmore McCurry, born 1850 in Alton Illinois; died 1939 in Peru Kansas; married (2) Margaret Belle Wright 1885; married (3) Elzora Gunnels 1896.

Links

• Partial Ancestor table for Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. NEHGS, Gary Boyd, 2009
• Tracing his mother's Bunch ancestry to the first slave in America Ancestry.com, (Harman, Cattrill, Reed, Shumway), 2012
• Ancestors of Mary Louise McCurry

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vii.   Harbin Thomas McCurry (29)

Harbin Jr. was killed by bushwhakers at their home located on a hill north of Granby Missouri. Their home was set afire and burning coals thrown on the face af a baby girl, badly burning her. Apparently Harbin recognized the bushwhakers and asked them not to burn the house and was killed so they would not be identified. Afterward the family moved to St. Joseph Mo., then to Longton Ks.

From "Bushwhackers and Jayhawks" 2011

"Although not the only Confederate partisan group in the region, William Clarke Quantrill’s Raiders soon emerged as the most infamous. In August 1862, they were officially mustered into the Confederate Army under the Partisan Ranger Act passed in April of that year. Nonetheless, their ambushes against Union supply convoys, military patrols and detachments and attacks on pro-Union civilians were frequently undertaken without the knowledge or input of the Confederate government."