Exactly what Henry did during the Civil War is still undetermined, documents have been found in which the details of his life and his wife’s name match, but the oral history is different, see next statement.

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Henry and Margaret Hurt were married three years before the start of the Civil War. So some of the children were born before & some after the war. They lived outside El Dorado Springs, Mo.
Henry didn't join a group to fight, but stayed home to watch out for his family and home. There were bushwackers and renegades looting and killing anyone that stood in their way. Some of them must have been after Henry, because his wife and her sister hid him out for a while in a hugh grove of trees on their place. It goes, she carried a feather bed to a big oak tree and put it high in the tree, providing him with a great hiding place. She carried food to him, taking care to go a different route each time. He was never found there. But she and her sister had many harrowing times with renegades who took advantage of the men of the homes being gone to fight in the war. Many of their chickens and livestock were killed to provide food for these roaming men. Once she recalled they slaughtered one of her calves & tore up her porch for wood to cook it. Her sister found it hard to put up with this kind of treatment and done more crying than anything else, while Margaret was a little spitfire, and would fight them off herself. They had a big apple orchard on their place and she would take apples in and polish them good; and when these men asked if they were good or poisoned, she'd tell them, "eat them and find out for yourself".
Henry died at age 56, but the rest of the family lived into their 70s. The Hurt family are buried at Martin cemetery El Dorado Springs, Mo.
This also was told to me by Roea Johnson. (from Naomi Roser's collection)30

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The value of his real estate in 1870 was $850., while the value of his Personal Estate was $525.

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Mar 2002: email from Charlene Wein 26

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3/29/97 Ruby has portrait of Margaret Burke.

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BD maybe 1841. In Roea Ryan's notes taken by Neoma Roser, William Hurt's birth year given as 1835. Sharon birth date 1845.

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Had consumption (TB) June 1, 1880.

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1880 Census23
1870 Census28
1860 Census31
1850 Census25

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HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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Union Army Burned Porch & Killed Stock

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Name spelled Margaret and Margurett and Burk and Burke.

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Burke is Anglo-Norman. Page 255

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Her great-grand daughter Madeline Johnson Barnett remembers Margaret Burke would visit her daughter Mary Ann Johnson (Madleine's grandma) when they lived in Arlington, CO and Madeline was very young. Madeline remembers Margaret as a very small little old lady who would talk very fast when she was excited about the subject and would also move around very fast.32

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Margaret moved to St. Clair Co, MO when she was about 7 years old. Margaret Ann Burke and Charles Henry Hurt lived on a farm near the town of El Dorado Springs, MO. the farm was owned by the Hurt family until around 1980 - deed to Sandifer Hurt in 1846.33

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She lived on the Hurt homplace for several years after her husband, Charles Henry Hurt, passed away and then she moved to El Dorado Springs where she lived until she passed away on July 10, 1930. . . Margaret Ann Burke was born in Boone County on July 14, 1840 and moved to El Dorado Springs, Mo. with her family when she was about 7 years old. . . Margaret Ann’s mother was Millie Shock and her father was William Burke.34

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Mar 2002: email from Charlene Wein 26

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Birth date listed as 1837, 1847 in Roser notes from Grandma Roea.

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buried in Martin Cemetery, El Dorado Springs, Cedar Co, MO29

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Husband listed on death certificate as John Hurt?35

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Died of apoplexy with old age contributing.35

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BURKE (also Burk, Berk, Birk, Berke) Irish36

1900 Census27
1880 Census23
1870 Census28

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I have had a continuing question if Sarah remarried in 1907 in Missouri, possibly Speedwell, Saint Clair Co., to a John Street who was born in 1862. Her headstone says “Sara E. Adcock”. If she were to have then there is a 1930 census which shows her mother living with them, but this is doubtful.

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