CURFMAN: Of Reedy. Two brothers, James and Samuel.

These we are told came from Greenbrier County to Reedy in the first of the decade of 1850.

Samuel Curfman united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Cain on December 27, 1858, she a daughter of Rev. Thomas H. Cainsee Cain. Samuel and Mary A., his wife, made their home on Cains Run. Farmers; they brought up one son and two daughters. The son, Thomas, married Mattie Beach. Mary married James Bee Lestersee Lester. Martha married J. Edmond Bishop.

James Curfman, the other of the Curfman brothers, married Miss Elizabeth Cain, August 18, 1865, she a daughter of the Rev. Thomas H. Cain -- see Cain. James and his wife made their home on Cains Run. We do not have the names of the childrenif anyof James and Elizabeth Curfman. Both Samuel and James enlisted in the Confederate army and served through all the campaigns of the Civil War -- 1862 to 1865.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 495
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999