"The following notice of the death of Mrs. Helen M. Curd, of Somerset, is taken from the Somerset Paragon of last week. Mr. John B. Curd, better known as Mr. Brent Curd, was born and raised within a mile or two of Glasgow, and has a large acquaintance among our older citizens. He was a brother of Mr. Daniel Curd, of Cave City, of the late Mrs. Frank Dickey, and of the mother of Mr. Geo. Snoddy, of this place.
"Mrs. Helen M. Curd, the olest person of this city, died last Thursday morning. She was 91 years of age, and had been a widow for fifty-seven years, and had lived in the same residence for fifty years. Her husband died there in 1850. That was a model home then, and has always been such since, a place where every good man and woman was greeted with the heartiest of the truest Kentucky hospitality, with the best comforts of a good home. Her husband, John Brent Curd, was a prosperous business man and had built their home only three years before his death, having retired from the hotel business to enjoy a more quiet life, and engaged in the mercantile business. He was idoloized by his family and loved by all right thinking people who knew him. At his death most of their children were quite young, left to the care of the widowed mother, and never did a fonder mother watch over and care for her children, and never were children more tender and loving toward mother.
"Mrs. Curd was Miss Chaplin before marriage and was born at Bowling Green, and, in that part of the State, she still has many relatives living.
"The children of Mrs Curd yet living are Mr. Will C Curd, Mrs. Bettie Crawford, Mrs. A. T. Keene and Mrs. Mattie Gragg, widow of the late J. Beatie Gragg. Those children who went before her were A. T. Curd and three daughters, the daughters having died quite young many years ago.
"The funeral services of Mrs. Curd were conducted by Rev. W. E. Arnold, at the family residence, last Sunday. The remains were laid to rest in this city's beautiful cemetery, and now in memory we will keep the pleasant smile and the warm heart's greeting from time of long ago, up to the last moment of her life, for the farewell has been spoken to the tender, loving, faithful, patient, christian mother.
Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 17 Feb 1897.
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