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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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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 Edmonson. 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.
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This family biography is one of 116 biographies included in the book, The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published in 1886 by Goodspeed. The History of Lauderdale County was included within The History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Tennessee
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