When Harriet Ann America Hurst was born on 25 June 1839, in Thomas, Georgia, United States, her father, Lt. John Wiley Hurst, was 24 and her mother, Mariah Hicks, was 24. She married Wyatt Milton Cooper on 6 February 1855, in Thomas, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bainbridge, Decatur, Georgia, United States in 1870. She died on 7 December 1909, in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1857: Mitchell, Georgia, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Mitchell, Georgia, United States
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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