Thurston Hurt Family
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Pictured are the following in 1899: Left to right - Thomas Durward Hurt, wife Ada (Burris) Hurt with infant Hansford, three months old in her lap, Charles T. at her shoulder, Louisa M. Hurt, Thurston's mother, John Cornelius, Louisa G. Hurt, George T. and kneeling on extreme right of picture, Thurston Darlie Hurt. Two children in the front, left to right, Sarah L. Hurt and William Floyd Hurt. Photograph was taken near Golden, Missouri. Thurston Darile Hurt was born in Russell County, Virginia, April 6, 1845; the second child of John M. Hurt and Louisa M. (McGuire) Hurt. He enlisted in the Confederate Army from Tazewell County on April 2, 1862, and joined his older brother, William McGuire Hurt as a member of the 45th Virginia Infantry Company "A". They were both captured at the Battle of Piedmont, Virginia, on June 5, 1864, and were kept at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana. There were exchanged for Yankee prisoners shortly before the war ended. After the war on October 23, 1867, he married Sarah Elizabeth May who was a daughter of Thomas Patton May and Margery Leslie May of Johns Creek, Kentucky. They were married at her parents' home on Johns Creek. Their only child was a son, Garland Hurt, who was born September 1, 1868, in Shelby, Pike County, Kentucky. His mother died when he was only 19 days of age. She is buried in the Potter Cemetery of Yeager, Kentucky. Garland was reared by his maternal grandparents and was cared for, to a large extent, by his aunt "Betsy," his mother's elder sister, Elizabeth D. May, who afterwards became Mrs. Tom C. Harvey. Thurston married for a second time after the death of his wife, Sarah Elizabeth May. Thurston married Louisa G. McGuire, a cousin, in Tazewell, Virginia, November 25, 1874. Louisa was a daughter of Cornelius McGuire and Teresa (Gose) McGuire. After their marriage, Thurston and Louisa spent five years on Johns Creek in Kentucky near where his brother, William McGuire Hurt was living. Their first child, Thomas Durward, was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, August 17, 1875. They lived in Kentucky until 1880 when they moved to a homestead near Golden, Missouri, where Thurston farmed and lived the rest of his life. In Cassville, Missouri, in the Barry County Courthouse can be found the typewritten copy of Thurston's will. It appears that Thurston owned about 284 acres of land. His wife, Louisa, died August 26, 1910, at the age of 58. Thurston died of edema June 12, 1919. Both he and his wife Louisa, are buried in the Roach Cemetery in Golden, Missouri. Data and photo submitted in 2009 by Steve Hurt |