{"id":3218,"date":"2022-01-10T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:12:14","slug":"hurt-george-whitfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/hurt-george-whitfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurt, George Whitfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Whitfield Hurt<\/strong>, a farmer and mechanic of Lauderdale County, was born
\nat Paducah, Ky., March 20, 1845, and was the sixth child of a family of eight
\nsons and three daughters born to William W. and Sarah E. (Camburn) Hurt, and
\nis of Irish descent. His father was born in Maury County, Tenn., where he was
\nraised and educated. He then went to Graves County, Ky., where he married and
\nlived for a short time before moving to Paducah, Ky., where he lived until
\n1856; then moved to Boonville, Mo., and a few years later came to Lauderdale
\nCounty, where he is still living, three miles from Hall’s Station. Our
\nsubject’s mother was born in Graves County, Ky., in 1812, and is still living.
\nGeorge W. Hurt was raised and educated in Paducah, Ky., and has always been a
\nfarmer and a carpenter. He has been married three times. The first time, in
\nMcCracken County, Ky., to Virginia Potter, a daughter of Squire James Potter,
\na prominent farmer. She was born in that county in 1848. One daughter,
\nVirginia, was born to this marriage. Mrs. Hurt died in November, 1865, and
\nDecember 17, 1866, he married in Lauderdale County, Miss Cornelia E. Jordan, a
\ndaughter of Dr. Thomas Jordan, a popular physician of Williamson County, Tenn.
\nTwo sons and two daughters were born to this marriage: Mattie Y., Thomas
\nLeonidas, Mary Florence and William Edmondson. Mrs. Hurt, their mother, was
\nborn in Henderson County, Tenn., in 1844, and died in 1876. Mr. Hurt was
\nmarried again December, 1878, to Miss Addie Wright, a daughter of John Wright,
\na prominent farmer. One son and three daughters were the result of this union;
\ntwo of the latter were twins and died when four months old, within fifteen
\nminutes of each other. These children were named Myrtle and Beulah, Floyd C.
\nand Bernice. This wife was born in Lauderdale County, Tenn., in 1857, and is
\na member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Hurt is a Missionary
\nBaptist, and a Democrat. He owns a farm of sixty acres, and is a prosperous,
\nliberal man.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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