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Fred M. Curtis
1890 - 1957

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• Birth	20 Mar 1890
  Gender	Male
  Buried	1957	Somerset KY City Cemetery
  Died	13 Feb 1957
  Person ID	I0389	Curtis Family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	04 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Fred Percival Curtis,   b. 13 Sep 1852, New York ,   d. 21 Mar 1929
  Mother	Juey Angelina Reynolds,   b. 30 Oct 1861, Kentucky ,   d. 28 Mar 1937
  Married	19 Dec 1878	Lincoln County KY; likely District 69 near Waynesburg,KingsMountain The John Reynolds cemetery north of barnet rd little east of 1878 version Double Springs Baptist Church/cemetery. Likely met at church there, since Curtis family teacher there
  Family ID	F044	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Daisy White
  Children	1. Margaret Ellen Curtis,   b. 14 Jun 1927, Somerset, KY ,   d. 26 Jul 2006, Rittman, Medina County, Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F046	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		1924 deed Fred M. Curtis Somerset Ky corner Maple and Limestone
  		Fred Curtis 1902

  
  

  Documents		1942 Fred M. Curtis World War II draft registration shows address of home
  		1940 census Fred M. Curtis Shows worked as Revenuer and lived at the time in Lexington, while maintaining home on Maple st. in Somerset KY
  		Fred Curtis moves U Drive It car rental and cleaning business Somerset Ky Commonwealth newspaper 10/6/1926; after foreclosure of Central motors Chevrolet dealer located corner of E Mt Vernon and Central Ave. His father Fred P. Curtis had opened Central Motors in 1917 with his son Fred M. Curtis.
  		U-Drive-It rental car advertisement 1927 Fred Curtis Jr. operated rental and car cleaning company, started out at Central Motors Chevrolet Dealer at same location corner of South Central and East Mt. Vernon St. Car dealer was foreclosed on late 1926.
  		U-Drive-It car cleaning business Fred Curtis Jr. Somerset Ky Commonwealth news 06/08/1927
  		Fred M Curtis in lake
  		Fred Morton Curtis death obit
  		Fred P Curtis foreclosure on debts of Central Motors Chevrolet dealership 1928
  		Curtis U-Drive It advertisement 1927

  
  

• Notes

  NEWS: Excerpts from the Somerset Journal, 5 Mar 1920 Bring Cars Back. Brinkley Gooch and Fred Curtis returned from Cincinnati Tuesday with two new Chevrolet trucks. NEWS: Excerpts from the Somerset Journal, 5 Mar 1920 After Cars. Brinkley Gooch, Fred Curtis and Bud Gooch left this week for Lancing, Michigan, to drive back three Oldsmobiles. (RCurtis note: Bud Gooch was married to Juey Reynolds Curtis's sister, Bertha Reynolds Gooch. Juey was Fred P Curtis wife. Brinkley was son of Bud Gooch and Bertha Reynolds...so cousin to Fred M. Curtis) Mary Jo Curtis said that that Fred worked for the federal revenue dept and chased moonshine stills in kentucky. He was a revenuer. He lived all over southeastern Ky. London, Corbin, Middlesboro Ky. etc. http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=curtis&GSfn=fred&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1957&GSdyrel=in&GSst=19&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=13569625&df=all& Somerset KY Commonwealth Journal reprint from 1928 published 9/8/18: Sold Three Whippets The Queen City Motor Company reports the sale and delivery of Whippets to the follow- ing: Albert Murphy, sedan; Curtis U-Drive-It, coach; and William Burnett, Whitley City, a coach. SOMERSET KY COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL NOVEMBER 17, 1948 County Officers Find Still Deputy Sheriffs Ellis Reid, Tom Price and Charles Abbott located and confiscated am 80-gallon copper still, four 50 gallon barrels and 80 gallons of mash Sunday morning and arrested Ottis G. Tucker on a charge of possessing a still. The raid was made in a woodland three quarters of a mile east of Alpine on Neeley Creek in Pulaski County. The still was in operation when the officers came upon the scene and Tucker was sitting in front of the still. The whiskey was in eight half-gallon jars. Federal agents Fred Curtis and John Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Reid took Tucker to London Tuesday and he made bond for $500 for his appearance in the London Federal Court at the April term.