Betsy Jane Hurt

Brief Life History of Betsy Jane

Betsy Jane Hurt was born on 16 April 1848, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States as the daughter of John Hert and Elizabeth Buttram. She married Hiel Carroll on 20 November 1866, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Meigs, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 14 July 1886, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in McMinn, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Hiel Carroll
1847–1916
Betsy Jane Hurt
1848–1886
Marriage: 20 November 1866
Alfred Carroll
1868–1920
Thomas Carroll
1869–1885
Mary Carroll
1871–1913
Lavina Carrol
1872–1945
Martha Carroll
1874–1895
Granville Carroll
1877–1945
Henry Carroll
1878–1920
Lona Mae Carroll
1881–1959
William Riley Carroll
1883–1886
Sally Jane Carroll
1886–1886

Sources (13)

  • Betsey J Carroll in household of Hile Carroll, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Betsy Jane Hunt, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Betsy Jane Hurt Carroll, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (6)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Hart . In Middle English, Old English heorot ‘hart’ became hurt west of a line running roughly from Dorking to Birmingham, and this has occasionally survived, though often replaced by the standard hart from hert.

German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle, woven fence’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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