Hayes Lowe
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry revisited.
Wed May 16 13:19:30 2001


I had never heard of Curry until the statue replacement issue arose.

Is this the same Jabez Curry who was patenting huge amounts of land all over Alabama? These chunks of land were bought in groups on just a few (5 or 6) dates. Was he one of those dreaded "land speculators" who were buying up land out from under the settlers? Looks to me like he was. Otherwise you had to be living on the land, and he couldn't have been living on all these huge, but separate plots all at once! I find almost 100 separate Alabama land patents for him in the BLM records.

If so, I'd say that there's more than a few of our ancestors rolling in their graves over the fact that he has a statue in his honor in Washington, D.C.!