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In 1908, Mollie Banks Curry married James Samuel Gray (1859-1928), a native of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15935606|title=James Samuel Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> "Miss Mollie," as she was known,  was living in [[rural]] Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish when on March 19, 1931, shortly before her sixty-ninth birthday, she filed an application for a Confederate widows pension in Bossier Parish.<ref name=molliecurry>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89586179|title=Mollie Burdett Banks Curry Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>
 
In 1908, Mollie Banks Curry married James Samuel Gray (1859-1928), a native of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15935606|title=James Samuel Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> "Miss Mollie," as she was known,  was living in [[rural]] Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish when on March 19, 1931, shortly before her sixty-ninth birthday, she filed an application for a Confederate widows pension in Bossier Parish.<ref name=molliecurry>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89586179|title=Mollie Burdett Banks Curry Gray|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref>
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Mollie subsequently moved to [[Shreveport]], where she resided for a year with her daughter, then returned to Plain Dealing, and finally moved again to Shreveport to reside the last year of her life with a  son. When she died in the spring of 1958, her surviving children were listed as Annie Belle Curry Boggs, wife of W. B. Boggs, Jr.; Robert H. "Bob" Curry,<ref>It is unclear if Robert H. "Bob" Curry is Robert Houston Curry, Jr.; he did not use the "Junior," as his father died when he was too young to remember him.</ref> a member of the elected Louisiana State Board of Education for the 4th congressional district<ref name=mns/> and past president of the Norwella Council of the [[Boy Scouts]] of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2528971/|title=Scouts and Fathers to Meet at Annual Banquet Tonight|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=March 9, 1937|page=1|accessdate=October 19, 2020 and Glenn H. Curry (1889-1958) of Texarkana,  [[Texas]],<ref name=mns/> who died five months after his mother's passing and is interred at Hillcrest Cemetery in Texarkana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Glenn&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112169193&df=all&|title=Glenn H. Curry|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie Curry Gray is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=molliecurry/>
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Mollie subsequently moved to [[Shreveport]], where she resided for a year with her daughter, then returned to Plain Dealing, and finally moved again to Shreveport to reside the last year of her life with a  son. When she died in the spring of 1958, her surviving children were listed as Annie Belle Curry Boggs, wife of W. B. Boggs, Jr.; Robert H. "Bob" Curry,<ref>It is unclear if Robert H. "Bob" Curry is Robert Houston Curry, Jr.; he did not use the "Junior," as his father died when he was too young to remember him.</ref> a member of the elected Louisiana State Board of Education for the 4th congressional district<ref name=mns/> and past president of the Norwella Council of the [[Boy Scouts]] of America<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2528971/|title=Scouts and Fathers to Meet at Annual Banquet Tonight|publisher=''The Ruston Daily Leader''|date=March 9, 1937|page=1|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> and Glenn H. Curry (1889-1958) of Texarkana,  [[Texas]],<ref name=mns/> who died five months after his mother's passing and is interred at Hillcrest Cemetery in Texarkana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Curry&GSfn=Glenn&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112169193&df=all&|title=Glenn H. Curry|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 19, 2020}}</ref> Mollie Curry Gray is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=molliecurry/>
    
Robert Houston Curry was succeeded in the legislature in 1892 by William Benton Boggs]<ref name=legis/> whose son married Mollie's daughter.<ref name=molliecurry/>
 
Robert Houston Curry was succeeded in the legislature in 1892 by William Benton Boggs]<ref name=legis/> whose son married Mollie's daughter.<ref name=molliecurry/>
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