Spouse: Jennie Elizabeth RYEL. Jennie Elizabeth RYEL and Claude Seaman HURST were married on 11 December 1908 in Chandler,Lincoln,Oklahoma. Children were: Donald Ceman HURST, Harold John HURST, Melvin HURST.

Spouse: Leland WATKINS. Children were: Cassidy Mae WATKINS, Cassandra Marie WATKINS.

Spouse: Mrs. Opal HURST. Children were: Stanley Wallace HURST, Donela HURST.

Spouse: Sondra SADDLER. Children were: Terry Lynn HURST, Tammy Kay HURST.

Spouse: Mary LINDSEY. Mary LINDSEY and Elijah HURST were married on 9 February 1789 in GREENE CO. TENNESSEE.

Spouse: Dale SCHUSTER. Children were: Pride SCHUSTER.

Spouse: Drusilla Mildred LOOMIS. Drusilla Mildred LOOMIS and Harold John HURST were married on 26 July 1934 in Fairview, , OK. Children were: Jimmie Lee HURST, Bill Don HURST, Dwayne Lynn HURST, Ivan Dean HURST.

Children were: William HURST.

Spouse: Anna BEELER.

Spouse: Mary BILL. Children were: John HURST, Christopher HURST, William HURST "Brindle Bill", James HURST.

Spouse: Mary BILL. Mary BILL and Henry HURST were married in 1694 in Leckhamstead, Buckingham, England. Children were: William HURST, James HURST, James HURST, John HURST.

Spouse: Rhonda PARSON. Children were: Crystle Gay HURST.

Spouse: Jeanene Joyce HARGER. Children were: Brian Derek HURST.

Spouse: Uhlma EWING. Children were: Gayle Lorraine HURST, Sheldon Dean HURST.

Spouse: Karol BROWN.

Spouse: Retha BOWERS. Children were: Justin Lee HURST, Scotty Harold HURST, Kimberly Renee HURST.

Spouse: Thomas ROGERS. Children were: Joan ROGERS.

Spouse: John TILLEY. Joan HURST and John TILLEY were married on 20 September 1596 in Henlow, Benford, England. Children were: Rose TILLEY, John TILLEY , Jr., Rose TILLEY, Robert TILLEY, Elizabeth TILLEY.

ORDER BOOK 1781 - 1784
SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Page 262 (25 Sept. 1783)
Ordered that the overseers of the poor bind out Nancy Smith Orphan of William Smith, dec'd. to John Hurst until she arrive to the age of eighteen years being three years old the ninth of this Instant.

John Hurst was known as "Capt. John". The records show that he took an oath as "Lieutenant of Malitia" in 1778 and was later promoted to Captain. He was married first to Lydia Smith, by whom he had ten children. After her death he was again married to Mary Lindsay, a widow, who had six children by a former marriage. Two of her children married two of Capt. John and Lydia Smith's children. See the following William Lindsey family.

On August 29, 1782, Capt. John sold to Daniel Hackney 148 acres of land in Shenandoah County for 100 pounds and moved to Wythe County, Virginia. This was land he had inherited from his father and was a portion of the old home farm and was described as being "on the South side of the South branch of the Shenandoah River." Soon after selling this tract of land the records show that Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, conveyed to John Hurst, assignee of John Newell, 260 acres of land in Montgomery County, Virginia (now Wythe County), on both sides of the New river and adjoining "Persimmon Bottom." On this or adjoining land he made his home during his residence in Wythe County. He later bought a number of other adjacent tracts. He sold land there in 1794, 1795 and 1797. In the meantime he moved to Greene County, Tennessee. The exact date of his going there is not known; but the records show that on November 13, 1797, he purchased from John Ellison, 300 acres of land for the sum of $1500.00 cash. It was located on the North side of the Nolichucky river and here is where he afterwards made his home while living in that county. Most of his children probably went to Greene County with him as the records show that some of them purchased property there and at least four of them were married there. According to some reports, he left Tennessee about the year 1803 and moved to Kentucky where he settled on Bear Grass Creek near Louisville, where he remained less than a year. He then moved across the Ohio River and settled in Harrison County, Indiana, about 20 miles West of New Albany, where he lived until his death in 1825. His Will in on record there. He is buried about 5 miles North of Corydon, Indiana. Most if not all his children eventually followed him to Indiana, where many of his descendants may yet be found. His son John probably left Tennessee before his father and settled near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, where he lived for about 2 years. He then went to Washington County, Kentucky where he remained until 1806 when
he and his family moved on to Harrison County, Indiana where his father lived.

The following is taken from the scrap book of B. F. Hurst:

Following story is reserved in the traditions of the Hurst family as given me by Boliver Hurst, son of William Hurst (Greene Co., Tenn. b 11/29/1798) and grandson of Elijah (b Shenandoah Co. Va, in 1774 and Great-great grandson of John Hurst (1732-1825).

On arriving in Bedford Co., Virginia, John made his first stop some 30 miles (two days) from where the widow Lindsey lived and when he had fairly settled, he made ample preparations to go courting, by taking two ox teams and wagons; two of his boys, and feed and lunch for the two day journey, they were ready to camp at the widows the second night. It so happened at this early day that mails were so slow and uncertain that questions of such importance could be more quickly settled by having both parties present when the question was opened for discussion. On arrival at the widows, Accomodations were rather meager, but the teams were tied to the wagon, and supper prepared. You can now vision the old man, past three score, bald and gray, setting at one end of the table, while Mary Lindsey, widow, (who was to outlive him nine years) setting at the opposite end, with two boys and three girls between. "I have come to marry you and take you back with me", said John Hurst to the widow, the first notice he had given her of the purpose of making the journey over
rough mountain roads with two wagons. Being faced with this sudden proposal, Mary Lindsey, with her many hardships, disappointments and sorrows in life, could not make a reply. The matter was dropped and soon the boys were relating to the girls the incidents of their trip and of sleeping at nights with lizards crawling over their necks. But Mary Lindsey was sad - she was thinking - that night she slept not - tears flowed freely. Breakfast early as was the custom and soon the table was surrounded, while Mary, namesake of her mother, was wishing that "Lige" had made a proposal to her, which he did later, but the mother was weary and sad-eyed when "John", brusk and old, said
to her, well, have you made up your mind? Her answer "no, I have not, came slowly, but, I reckon I will".

The following story was written by Mrs. Victor McIntosh:

JACKSON TOWNSHIP HISTORY

Early settlers arrived in what is now known as Jackson Township, shortly after 1800. Big Indian Creek with tributaries fed by springs of excellent quality flows southwesterly through the eastern part of this township. Fertile soil, heavily timbered land, both sloping and bottom land, offered much of the pioneers needs. The Hursts were the first to arrive and settled at Hursttown on Big Indian Creek and soon erected a sawmill and gristmill.

Mr Hurst and family came from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. John Hurst was born 1732 and died in 1825 in Harrison County, Indiana. He was married in Virginia to Lydia Smith and they had ten children. She died, he married Mary Lindsey, a widow with 10 children. John and Mary had a son making a family of 21 children. John's family of Hurst children, six boys and five girls, came with him with the exception of John who stopped in Tennessee and came two years later with his wife. Two of the stepchildren or more came. It is easy to see that when the family married and lived on farms near to each other a settlement would be started. John gave land for a school house, church, store and a cemetery. This settlement is in the area where highway 135 and the Crandall road 335 junction at Hursttown. The mill and sawmill were on the bank of the Big Indian Creek.

Other families came and settled near them and Hursttown became a community center with a postoffice, shoeshop and blacksmith's shop. John served as sheriff of Harrison County 1812 to 1816. John Jr's son Nimrod Hurst, married Dennis Pennington's daughter Mary (Polly). Another grandson drowned in the load of books and papers being brought from Vincennes to Corydon State House.
The team became frightened in the snow, ran away off the trail into the Wabash and all drowned. Some of the records were lost.

John Hurst's home in Shenandoah County, Virginia was about 50 miles west of George Washington's birthplace and they had the same birthyear. His father William Hurst gave John 400 acres in the Shenandoah Valley and the will was attested by John Hancock (probated in 1781). John and his sons came well equipped to settle. Several teams of oxen and wagons and horses must have brought skilled men and some tools for the operations required to make a home, mill and etc. Two of John's family married a stepsister and stepbrother.

John Hurst deeded land for a Methodist Church called "Whitten Chapel" which stood where William and Fred Elwangers barn stands and a school house beside it. Whitten Chapel was the first church built in Jackson Township. The Hurst mill and sawmill were run for many years by Hurst descendants.

The Hurst-Stepro lumber company was built by Ben Hurst who was descended from William Hurst's grandson, John. Mrs. Cecil Miles, daughter of Ben and Edna Hurst. Bill and Charles Dome were some of the descendants who through research and patience have the genealogy and facts on the Hurst families. John Hurst was born in 1732 in Virginia and died in 1825 in Indiana. He entered Indiana Territory and Indiana became a state in 1816. I don't know why the deeds for Hurst's land aren't in Harrison Count courthouse. But he probably entered the land through a Federal Agency. A grandson Jonas drowned with some of the Territorial Records. The Hursts had a part in the building
of Old State Capital and were deeply interested in early government in Indiana and Harrison County. A great deal of time was spent on the Hurst Family because they were the first to settle. John Sr. crossed the end point of Kentucky at Shipping Port and came on to Indiana which had recently been
separated from the Northwest Territory in 1800. Many grandsons served in the Civil War and some lost their lives. Parents: William HURST "Brindle Bill" and Judith CAFFREY.

Spouse: Lydia SMITH. Lydia SMITH and John HURST were married in 1760 in ,Shenandoah,Virginia. Children were: Mary HURST, John HURST Sheriff John, William HURST, Henry HURST, Hannah HURST, Nancy HURST, Elijah HURST, Abraham HURST, Leah HURST, Elizabeth HURST.

Spouse: Mary BARKSDALE. Mary BARKSDALE and John HURST were married in 1787 in SHENANDOAH CO., VIRGINIA. Children were: Beverly HURST.

Spouse: Lydia (Lucy) SMITH. Lydia (Lucy) SMITH and John HURST were married in 1760 in , Shenandoah, Virginia. Children were: Leah HURST, Beverly HURST, John Jr. HURST, William HURST, Henry HURST, Hannah HURST, Nancy HURST, Elijah HURST, Leah HURST, Elizabeth HURST, Abraham HURST, Mary HURST.