Down A Gravel Road

Down A Gravel Road
Finding Curry Road

Welcome to the Adventures of Living On Curry Road

Rye, Arkansas is located eleven miles north of Warren, AR, fifteen miles west of Monticello, AR and approximately thirty miles south of Pine Bluff, AR. Rye has been the home of the Curry family for over five generations. This family has farmed this land producing cattle, chickens, timber. The area is beautiful and the family culture is equally impressive with its generations of family that continue to live by the standards that made America a great country.

Rye, AR and the Curry family are a story of strong American values and the building of personal character, the love of God and a lot of very hard dedicated work. Donald Curry and Kay Curry are the current owners of most of the original farm land originally developed by the generations of Curry family. Kay Curry is the daughter of Jimmy and Hazel Baker and married Donald over fifty years ago. Both have continued the legacy of the farm life on Curry Road. Donald and Kay have raised a family of two daughters and one son. Mark Curry currently operates a cattle operation as well as four chicken houses on his part of the property. Lisa Tooke, wife of Dennis Tooke of Lake Charles, La and Donna Curry, of Little Rock, AR plan to retire back to the farm land when thier retirement time comes.

Jane and I were asked to help in a restoration of the 104 year old house shown above. We are so blessed to be allowed to have input as well as provide a labor of love to help restore this house to its original beauty for Donald and Kay Curry

As Jane and I came into the property with our RV, we came down the gravel road leading to Curry Road. We came down this gravel road and had to stop and take a picture. We are including that picture with this overview so you too can see the beauty of this area.

It reminded us of the book “The Painted House” by John Grisham and we hope you will get the same response.

Jane, Carl and Charlie Pierce







Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Finally,,,, We've Got History Info!!!!!!

Well, we finally found some good resources for the history of this old house and we know you will find it entertaining and very interesting.  I'm going to try to introduce these resources to you and I probably will get a little of it wrong, but we are so excited about the new information that I'll come back and correct any errors in the lines of family members, but,,,,,

Unfortunately, Mrs Juanita Curry, wife of Mr. Royce Curry, son of Mr. W.G. Curry passed away.  Her funeral was today and we offer our condolences to Mr. Curry and all of his family.  As is often the case this funeral was the reason for most of Mrs Juanita's family to come back for the services.   Many of the family came by to see their old home and pay respect to the family and family history they all enjoyed here in the old Curry house.

Mr. Emmet Green Curry built this old house in 1929 and Mr. W.G. Curry eventually owned this old house where he and his wife, Miss Erma, lived here for many years.  Mr. W.G. (uncle G to some) and Miss Erma were the center of many of the family "get togethers" and many kids grew up here or within a half a mile of this old house and many other old homesteads.  We heard so many old stories that we are actually in "over load" but we have been promised written input, pictures and recounts of many tales of the past from several family members.


Approximately 100 yards to the south of the Curry home lived the Cope family.  The senior Copes' were sisters and/or brothers of the Curry family and Jerrilyn (Cope) Bulloch, Dorthty (Cope) Brighton and David Cope were brother and sisters and younger children and actually grew up here on this farm and their adjacent farm.  The picture below is of (left to right)  Jerrilyn, David, Dot Cope and Robert Donald Curry.  Jerrilyn currently lives in Huntsville, TX, David lives in Helena, AR and Dot lives in Mt Pleasant, TX.  Robert Donald owns the house and he and Kay have commissioned the restoration and live here on Curry Road.


Jerrilyn has man old pictures and items that she has promised to share with us so we post them on the blog, so look forward to hearing more from her.  David and Dot have more stories than we will ever be able to post but we're going to try.

Just to start with, we took Dot into the front bedroom and guess what?   She quickly stated that she was born in this very room just ,,,,,,,, a few years ago.   Is that neat or what?  We asked her to pick her place int he bedroom and let us take her picture, thats her below.



David has many stories to remember about the place and wonderful love of W.G and Erma and the great history of this old place.

We're going to really enjoy these stories and we want to include them for all to read and remember.

Again, if I get a name wrong or a relation wrong, we'll correct that for sure. We are just so excited to have such a resource for the complete story we want to build and share for all.

Thanks to the Copes for coming into the restoration life and stories that this Old House olds.

Anyone else that has some stories that can be shared will be welcomed and will help us make a complete recap of the history of this great old house.  So,,,,,,, get connected and let's go.
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