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Dear Visitors, Friends, Cousins, et al.

Because of a terminal illness, I will not be working on this web page any longer, nor will I be answering any more e-mails or queries. I have devoted many years of compiling the information within these pages and have enjoyed every minute of it. I hope you have enjoyed your visits here, and that you have gained some or much information on your families. If I can, in the coming weeks, I may create a web page at Rootsweb, since it may last longer than it will here at Geocities. Thank you for visiting The Hurst Nation.
* * * * * * * * * *Although records show that some of the first Hursts came to America as early as 1615, my family's direct ancestors arrived about 1730. They settled in the upper Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and through the years, others continued to join them. Later, they began to migrate to other areas as better and cheaper land became available. "Mill-Creek" John Hurst, nicknamed for the area where he lived in Virginia, was one of the first to move into Tennessee, Claiborne County,
about 1803-04.

After 1833, many descendants of "Mill-Creek" John's son, Elijah, settled in McNairy County, Tennessee.

During the Civil War, although members of the Hurst family served in both the Confederate and the Union Armies, five of Elijah's six sons served the Union under Elijah's second son, Fielding Hurst , Sixth Tennessee Cavalry, a Union regiment. The Hursts controlled a large parcel of land in McNairy County which included Woodville, Masseyville and Mount Gilead. This area was known as THE HURST NATION and served as an enclave for Union sympathizers, thus enabling the Hursts to control many routes from the Tennessee River to Memphis.

The Hurst family was quite large. As someone once said, it was more like a family forest than a family tree. The McNairy County and Chester County Hursts came from Claiborne and Hardin Counties in Tennessee. Most were farmers in the early days, but all occupations and walks of life were represented.

The Hurst family and the Moore family intermarried quite a bit. Both of these families are my paternal ancestors. All the data I have on my family is within the pages of this web site. The Hursts in this database date back to 1460 in England.

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