John was born at
Indiana on 24 July 1845. He was the son of
Samuel T. Curry and
Sarah Smith. John Haxton Curry began military service. He married
Elizabeth "Lizzie" S. Moore at
Monroe Co., Indiana, on 31 March 1869. John was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at
Bloomington Twp., Monroe Co., Indiana. He married
Ellen Wylie, daughter of
Robert Wylie and
Martha Barnes, on 12 November 1896 at
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. John died on 22 June 1919 at
Monroe Co., Indiana, at age 73. His body was interred in June 1919 at
Bloomington, Monroe Co., Indiana, at Covenanter Reformed Presbyterian Cemetery.