Brief Life History of Mack McKinley
When Mack McKinley Hurst was born on 28 April 1897, in Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States, his father, Fielding Jackson Hurst, was 31 and his mother, Susan B Linder, was 26. He married Thelma Vurnett Brixey on 9 November 1919, in Pope, Arkansas, United States. He lived in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1930 and El Dorado Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 6 July 1959, in Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Scranton, Osage, Kansas, United States.
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- Mack Hurst, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mack M Hurst, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Mack Hurst, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1904 · William H. Fuller Grows 70 Acres of Rice
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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