Abraham was of German descent.
Abraham served as a Private during the War of 1812.
Politically, Abraham was a stanch Whig. In the American colonies, the Whigs were those persons who resented British Control in the New World, and who favored independence from Great Britain. The Whigs supported the American Revolution and were opposed by British loyalists known as Tories.
However, according to "Portrait & Biographical Album of Champaign County" (Chapman Brothers, 1887, pg. 889), Abraham died in Moorefield Township.
He is married to Mary Ball Curl.
They got married on October 7, 1794 at Harrison County, West Virginia, he was 20 years old.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
It was in the year 1776 when the great struggle of the War for Independence first began that William Curl and Sarah Brown were united in marriage.
Child(ren):
Abraham's family migrated from the East Coast to Clinton Co., OH in 1795. Ohio then was still a part of the Northwest Territory. The country was nothing but a dense, trackless wilderness. Their first nine children were born in Clinton Co. and then in 1810, the family moved on to Moorefield Twp. (Clark Co.). This particular family was one of the best-known and most extensive families in Clark Co.