George Whitfield Hurt, a farmer and mechanic of Lauderdale County, was born
at Paducah, Ky., March 20, 1845, and was the sixth child of a family of eight
sons and three daughters born to William W. and Sarah E. (Camburn) Hurt, and
is of Irish descent. His father was born in Maury County, Tenn., where he was
raised and educated. He then went to Graves County, Ky., where he married and
lived for a short time before moving to Paducah, Ky., where he lived until
1856; then moved to Boonville, Mo., and a few years later came to Lauderdale
County, where he is still living, three miles from Hall’s Station. Our
subject’s mother was born in Graves County, Ky., in 1812, and is still living.
George W. Hurt was raised and educated in Paducah, Ky., and has always been a
farmer and a carpenter. He has been married three times. The first time, in
McCracken County, Ky., to Virginia Potter, a daughter of Squire James Potter,
a prominent farmer. She was born in that county in 1848. One daughter,
Virginia, was born to this marriage. Mrs. Hurt died in November, 1865, and
December 17, 1866, he married in Lauderdale County, Miss Cornelia E. Jordan, a
daughter of Dr. Thomas Jordan, a popular physician of Williamson County, Tenn.
Two sons and two daughters were born to this marriage: Mattie Y., Thomas
Leonidas, Mary Florence and William Edmondson. Mrs. Hurt, their mother, was
born in Henderson County, Tenn., in 1844, and died in 1876. Mr. Hurt was
married again December, 1878, to Miss Addie Wright, a daughter of John Wright,
a prominent farmer. One son and three daughters were the result of this union;
two of the latter were twins and died when four months old, within fifteen
minutes of each other. These children were named Myrtle and Beulah, Floyd C.
and Bernice. This wife was born in Lauderdale County, Tenn., in 1857, and is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Hurt is a Missionary
Baptist, and a Democrat. He owns a farm of sixty acres, and is a prosperous,
liberal man.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN