1880

Andrew Jackson McCurley was commonly called "Jack," and he had three older siblings:

Mary C.(13 in 1880), John J.(8 in 1880), and William (6 in 1880), and one younger brother,

Robert L. (3 in 1880), according to the census.

His mother's brother, John R. White also lived with the family in 1880, when Jack was 5 years old, in McCurley Prairie.

1882

Jack's mother, Permelia Ann White, dies on October 28,1882.

1883

Records show that Jack's father married Amanda Wood Sanders (aka Anna, born June, 1847) on Dec. 24, 1883.

1900

McCurley Prairie ( https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Flood-Waters-Ibid-Spring-2016.pdf )

By 1900, Jack is shown on the 1900 census as no longer living with his parent, George Collins McCurley.

The 1900 census records show Jack's father, George Collins, 56, lived in Denton County, on McCurley Prairie, with his wife Amanda, 53, (born June, 1847), his daughters Etta, 18, (born Dec. 1881-daughter of G.C. and Permelia) and Annie/Roxanne, 11, (born Dec. 1888), and his nephew John, 20, (born Aug. 1879).

The 1900 census showed Jack living with his cousin, Elisha Robb, and Elisha Robb's wife and two children, on McCurley Prairie in Denton County, Texas. Jack was 24 years old (1900) when he lived with the Robb family.

1901

Jack's stepmother, Amanda Woods Sanders McCurley died.

1902

Jack's father married Sarah Anne "Jennie" Thompson on July 4, 1902.

1910

Haskell, Haskell County, TX. The 1910 census shows Jack, at age 35, was living with his brother William McCurley in Haskell, Haskell County, Texas. Haskell County is several counties/days by horse/hours by car west of Tarrant County.

The 1910 census also shows Maude Ann Crites (21 years old), the woman he married in 1913, living in Runnells County, Texas, a few hours away from Haskell County.

1912

Maude Ann Crites conceived a daughter, Agnes Odena or Odena Agnes. Agnes Odena Crites' was given to the family, who later put her up for adoption at the Lena Pope Home, where she wound up growing up, and training to become a nurse.

1913

Ardmore, OK. In 1913, when he was 38 years old, he married Maude Ann Crites, 24 years old, on November 21, 1913, in Ardmore, OK.

1916

Fort Worth, TX. A 1916 directory showed Jack living at 2816 Refugio Ave., in Fort Worth, Texas, (https://goo.gl/maps/R7MqD6p29yQT5AAc8) and working in the Armour Meat Plant there.

1917

Lewisville, TX. In 1917 Jack registered for the draft and the record shows he lived in Lewisville, TX, then.

1920

McCurley Prairie. In 1920, the census shows Jack living with Maude and four of their children (Fred, George, Homer, Etta) in Denton County, TX, which was probably the community called "McCurley Prairie."

Andrew Jackson and Maude had 14 children in 21 years. Four children died in infancy. Ten of his children lived and had their own children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Later 1950s

Carrollton, TX. In his retirement, after selling McCurley Prairie was sold to the Corps of Engineers for the development of Garza-Little Elm reservoir. Jack moved to Carrollton, Texas, with his wife Maude.

1960ish

Lewisville, TX. Jack and Maude moved to Lewisville, Texas, to a Cowan Ave. address where at some point his brother Robert Lee McCurley had lived with them. As a child, I (Synthia LaFontaine) saw him and my grandmother, Maude, living in the home in Carrollton, where they added an extra room for my mother, Anne Berneice, and my sister, Lanette to live with them for a while. They later moved to Lewisville, where we visted them many times and also moved to be near to them for a short while.

At 96 years old Jack had bought the house in Lewisville with the agreement that he woudl build a storm cellar for Maud. At 96, Jack did not have any gray hair. At 96 years old Jack dug and built his own storm cellar, a large underground room, as well as maintained a large vegetable garden on the property on Cowan Avenue in Lewisville. Jack enjoyed watching wrestling, chewing tobacco, and drinking Coca-Cola.

Jack was brilliant and very conversant about current events even after being more than 100 years old.

1980

Lewisville, TX. Jack died on May 11, 1980, in Lewisville, Texas, at the age of 105, and was buried there.

The McCurley Cemetery, where Jack and many members of his family are buried, is a state historical landmark with this inscription: "McCurley Cemetery: The McCurley family of Illinois settled in Denton County in 1859. George Collins McCurley set aside land for a burial ground, church and school. A traveling stranger may have been the first burial, but George's brother, Abraham, who died in 1871 was the first family member buried at the site. The first marked graves date from 1877 when the plot began to be used by neighbors. In 1951 the 106 graves which then comprised the cemetery had to be relocated because of the construction of Lewisville Lake. They were moved here, adjoining Old Hall cemetery, burial place of George C. McCurley. http://www.twu.edu/downloads/history-government/Matthews_Revised_Ibid_Essay_16.pdfhttp://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/etx/denton/cemetery/McCurley.htm