Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Henry HURT 26
Birth Date5 Dec 1827
Birth PlaceNashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Death Date24 Sep 1910 Age: 82
Death PlaceCovelo, Mendocino County, California
Burial PlaceCovelo, Mendocino County, California
FatherHenry HURT (1798-1880)
MotherElizabeth WRIGHT (~1797-<1880)
Spouses
Birth Date3 Dec 1833
Birth PlaceHenry, Missouri
Death Date23 Dec 1915 Age: 82
Death PlaceCovelo, Mendocino County, California
Family ID3552
Marr Date28 Mar 1849
Marr PlaceHenry, Missouri
ChildrenCharles Henry (1850-1932)
 Elizabeth Jane (1852-)
 William Ervin (1854-1926)
 James Whitset (1855-1928)
 Andrew Jackson (1857-1933)
 John (~1858-)
 Anna Wayne (1859-<1860)
 Margaret (~1860-1866)
 Louisa Jane (~1861-<1880)
 Jefferson B. (1861-1864)
 Louis Beauregard (1862-1919)
 Buy L. (~1864-<1880)
 Levi Todd (1867-1943)
 Melissa H. (1868-)
 Parthenia (1870-1940)
 George (~1874-)
 Ada (1877-)
 Ida (1877-)
Notes for William Henry HURT
!information received from Betty Lawrence on 28 Oct 1997.
Write up of Kate Mayo on Edith Walter and Ancestors states he was born about ten miles from Nashville.

!In the year of 1854 the Hurts came to Scotts Valley, CA. There were two brothers, William Henry and James W., called Bill & Jim, who had families and one single, Jack Hurt. There was also the father and mother and two sisters and their husbands. They were Mr. & mrs. James Russell and Mr. & Mrs. Steve Elkins.
(From Scottslandia by Alice W. Deacon, page 9.)
In the 1870 census, Henry, William's father, was with James Russell and Louisa in Rio Vista, Solano County, California.

!The land Bill settled on was open hilly land lying east of the valley proper (and all the valley land west to Scotts Creek). The house Bill built and lived in was on a piece of high ground between Scotts Creek and the pond. There were several other houses near here that other members of the Hurt famly lived in. The Elkins home was west in a little canyon. The Russells "jumped" a corner of the Jones 160 acres, and Jack lived here and there with his relatives.

!The Hurts came to Round Valley from Scotts Valley in Lake County in 1884. They did not specifically pick Round Valley, rather they were just looking for a place they liked better than Scotts Valley. When they left Scotts Valley, they packed up and went east to the Sacramento Valley, where they proceeded to move north looking for a place to their liking. There have been family statements that they intended to move to Oregon but changed plans They then heard of a valley to the west that was very fertile and lush. They decided to try it. They proceeded west from Paskenta over the old immigrant road over the top of the mountains of the coast range and down the ridges into the valley, some places being so steep that a tree would have to be cut down and a log cut out of the tree to tie on behind the wagons to keep them from over-running the teams and wrecking.

!There are records of William Henry Hurt buying property in Covelo and Round Valley and he was on the Great Register for 1890 age 59 registered 1 December 1887. He was also on the 1898 Great Register of Mendocino County age 64, 5'11 1/2", light comlexion, grey eyes, gray hair, farmer born in Tennesee, residence Round Valley registered Setember 1892. Families of both William Henry Hurt and his father, Henry Hurt, were registered in the California Pioneer Record at the State Library.

!Jim Hurt, son of Bill had the honor of being the first white boy born in the valley in 1857.
Notes for Mary Jane (Spouse 1)
!information received from Betty Lawrence on 28 Oct 1997
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