Brief Life History of John Martin
When John Martin Hurst was born on 9 December 1811, in North Carolina, United States, his father, James Andrew Hurst, was 28 and his mother, Polly Mary Carter, was 21. He married Margaret Young on 17 January 1839, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Ivy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years.
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- John Hurst, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Hurst in entry for Wesly Hurst and Martha Allen, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- John Hurst, "United States Census, 1860"
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1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).
Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.
German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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