As the posting linked above notes, Mildred’s husband William Hurst provided the information that is recorded in these two death records, giving her parents’ names as Thomas and Hannah Phillips. Gwen Hurst concluded — and I agree with her — that the death record garbles information about Mildred’s parents, who can be proven to have been Thomas and Hannah Whitlock, and that the error may be either due to an error of the person producing the death record or to William Hurst, who was 76 years old when Mildred died. In Gwen Hurst’s view — and, again, I concur — Phillips was the maiden name of Thomas Whitlock’s wife Hannah, and when that information was provided for the death certificate, it got recorded as Mildred’s maiden name.

For biographical information about Gwen Hurst and about her importance as a genealogical researcher of this Whitlock-Hurst family, see “A Guide to the Hurst Family Papers, (1900-2004),” at the website of Archival Resources of the Virginias. As this source indicates, Gwen Hurst donated the notes and documents she accumulated in years of researching the Hurst family to the Kegley Library of Wytheville Community College.

Mildred Marries William Hurst, Surry County, North Carolina, 22 April 1805

Mildred was the last child of Thomas and Hannah Phillips Whitlock. She married William Hurst in Surry County, North Carolina, on 22 April 1805 shortly before her parents sold their land in Wythe County, Virginia, in May 1805 and moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky. As the posting I’ve just linked indicates, Gwen Hurst thought that Thomas and Hannah may have initially moved to Surry County, North Carolina, since their daughter married there in April 1805, before moving to Cumberland County, Kentucky. William Hurst and Mildred Whitlock lived in Wythe County following their marriage, however.^[2]

William Hurst gave bond for his marriage to Mildred Whitlock with his cousin George Hurst in Surry County on 22 April 1805. Both William and George signed the bond. The marriage bond gives Mildred’s surname as Whitlock, proving that she was Mildred Whitlock and not Phillips, the surname suggested by her death records — as does the will of her father Thomas Whitlock which names Milly Hust [sic] as his daughter.^[3] I provided a digital image of the bond William Hurst gave in Surry County, North Carolina, on 22 April 1805 to marry Mildred Whitlock in a previous posting.^[4]

William Hurst’s death record in Wythe County’s Register of Deaths for 1860 indicates when and where he was born.^[5] The death record, with information provided by William and Mildred’s son Allen W. Hurst, states that William Hurst died on Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County on 15 December 1860, aged 82, and that he was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia. His parents’ names are given as unknown.

This document places William’s birth in 1778, then, a date corroborated by the 1860 federal census, which I’ll discuss below. A Wythe County deed made by the heirs of Absalom Hurst on 11 September 1830 shows that William was a son of Absalom Hurst (1750-1830).^[6] The deed states that as heirs of Absalom, John Hurst and Molley his wife, Jacob Odle and Sally his wife, John Nunn and Elizabeth his wife, and Spencer Breeding and Winney his wife, were deeding to William Hurst of the same county their four-fifths share of 100 acres Absalom died owning on Little Reed Island Creek. William owned the other fifth share of the land as another heir.

William Hurst’s Shenandoah County, Virginia Roots: Son of Asalom and Elizabeth Hurst

According to Gwen Hurst, who generously shared her research on this Hurst family with me in the 1990s, Absalom Hurst and his wife Elizabeth moved from Shenandoah to Wythe County, Virginia, after selling 200 acres (with four acres excluded) in Shenandoah County to Moses Lehew on 13 July 1802.^[7] Absalom and Elizabeth appear to have sold this land in preparation to move to Wythe County, since on 11 December 1804, Absalom bought from Thomas and Sylva Hurst 100 acres south of Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County — the 100 acres that passed to Absalom’s children.^[8] Thomas Hurst, who was Absalom’s nephew, the son of Absalom’s brother John, had bought this tract in January 1800 from James and Sarah Breeding.^[9]

It’s not clear to me whether William Hurst moved to Wythe County from Shenandoah County along with his parents in 1802-3 or if he came there separately. If he did arrive with his parents, it would likely have been at this point that he met Thomas and Hannah Phillips Whitlock’s daughter Mildred, since the Whitlocks lived on Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County where Absalom Hurst acquired 100 acres in December 1804. The 1830 deed of Absalom’s heirs to William Hurst states that the 100 acres Absalom owned on Little Reed Island Creek adjoined Benjamin Clements. As a previous posting has shown, Thomas Whitlock’s land in Little Reed Island Creek also adjoined Benjamin Clements, so the Hurst and Whitlock families were neighbors from the time Absalom Hurst relocated to Wythe County.

Note also the Lehew name in the July 1802 deed Absalom Hurst and wife Elizabeth made as they left Shenandoah County: they sold 200 acres (minus four acres) to Moses Lehew. See this previous postingdiscussing the Lehew-Lahue connections that also bound together the Hurst, Whitlock, and Brooks families in Wythe County. 

Absalom Hurst and his brother John “Mill Creek” Hurst (1735-1817), father of the Thomas Hurst who sold Absalom 100 acres in Wythe County in December 1804, were not the first members of the Hurst family to move to the New River country of southwest Virginia. As William R. Hurst indicates, two sons of William “Brindle Bill” Hurst (abt. 1710 – 1781), an uncle of Absalom and John, had moved to the New River area of Montgomery County by the 1780s.^[10] These were William Hurst (1734-1825) and his brother John “Captain John” Hurst (1732-1825). 

Shenandoah County is in northwest Virginia adjoining Frederick County, its parent county. Shenandoah was initially named Dunmore County. Information about the Shenandoah County roots of the Absalom Hurst family of Wythe County appears in a biography of Rev. Samuel Need Hurst in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography.^[11] This source notes that Absalom Hurst’s family was in Shenandoah County prior to his removal to Little Creek Island in the New River country. It states that after Pulaski County was formed from Montgomery and Wythe Counties in 1839, most of Absalom’s descendants lived in Pulaski County — though his son William and wife Mildred Whitlock remained on the Little Reed Island Creek land that continued to be in Wythe County.^[12]

As I’ve noted above, following their marriage in Surry County, North Carolina, on 22 April 1805, William Hurst and Mildred Whitlock lived in Wythe County. I’ve found no information to show why the couple married in Surry County. As previous postings have noted, the family of Thomas Whitlock of Wythe County had multiple ties to Surry County. His brothers Charles and Nathaniel settled there when they moved from Albemarle County, Virginia, to North Carolina in the latter part of the 1760s, and we know from affidavits in the Whitlock vs. Whitlock chancery court case in Augusta County, Virginia, between Thomas Whitlock and the daughters of Thomas’s son Charles (and their mother Mary Davies Whitlock) that Thomas’s nephews Thomas and John Whitlock came up from Surry County to Wythe County to live with their uncle Thomas in the first part of the 1790s. Wythe County tax records confirm this, too, in the case of Thomas’s nephew named for him.

Thomas Whitlock’s daughter who married William Hannah — I have not found her given name, but suspect it may have been Agnes, after her grandmother Agnes Christmas Whitlock — also married into a Surry County family, as did Thomas’s daughter Nancy, who married Abner Bryson.^[13] The Hannah (alternative spelling: Hanna) and Bryson families were, in fact, related by intermarriage. So there were multiple ties between the family of Thomas Whitlock of Wythe County, Virginia, and families living in Surry County, North Carolina, and these may help to explain why William Hurst and Mildred Whitlock married in Surry County.

Wythe County Records for William and Mildred, 1810-1850

By 1810, Mildred and William were definitely living in Wythe County, since they were enumerated on the federal census of that year in Wythe County.^[14] Their household has a male aged 26-44, a female aged 16-25, and two females aged under 10. 

On 29 October 1812, for ￡200, William Hurst bought from John and Nancy Hurst 139 acres east of Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County.^[15] The deed states that all parties lived in Wythe County and that the tract, which bore the survey date of 8 November 1782, adjoined Thomas Whitlock’s survey.

An 8 October 1797 Wythe County deed shows this piece of land being sold by Randall/Randolph and Charity Fugate on that date to Winnie Hurst, without any statement in the deed about how the Fugates had acquired this land.^[16] A 13 September 1808 Wythe County deed shows John Hurst buying this land from Bryant Breeding, who married Jean Hurst, daughter of Winifred Lahue/Lehew Hurst.^[17] Winnie Lahue/Lehew, daughter of Spencer Lahue/Lehew, married Henry Hurst, son of the John “Mill Creek” Hurst discussed previously. John Hurst with wife Nancy who sold this land to William Hurst in October 1812 was another child of John “Mill Creek” Hurst. Winnie and John (with wife Nancy) were first cousins of William “Big Bill” Hurst who married Mildred Whitlock. On Spencer Lahue/Lehew and the ties of his family to the Hurst and Brooks families who settled in Wythe County, see this previous posting. The Moses Lehew to whom Absalom Hurst and wife Elizabeth sold land in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1802 before moving to Wythe County was also a child of Spencer Lahue/Lehew, a brother of Winifred Lahue/Lehew Hurst.

As a previous posting discussing this deed notes, Gwen Hurst thought that the 139 acres that William Hurst bought from John Hurst in 1812 were a 140-acre tract Thomas Whitlock entered on Little Reed Island Creek on 19 June 1793 and had surveyed on 8 October 1795.^[18] If so, note that the survey date given in the deed to Winnie Hurst in October 1797 and in the deed to William Hurst in October 1812 was 8 November 1782 and not 9 October 1797. The 8 November 1782 date is the date on which Thomas had a survey for 369 acres on Little Reed Island Creek when that land was Montgomery County.^[19] The 140 acres he had surveyed in October 1795 did, indeed, adjoin that original 369-acre tract. 

If Gwen Hurst was correct in concluding that the 139 acres John and Nancy Hurst sold to William Hurst in October 1812 were the piece of land Thomas Whitlock had surveyed on Little Reed Island Creek in October 1795, how did the Fugates end up with that tract by 1797? Something seems garbled here regarding the dates of pieces of land Thomas Whitlock had surveyed for him, and what became of those pieces of land. In any case, it’s noteworthy that the first piece of land William and Mildred Hurst bought in Wythe County was land adjoining the Thomas Whitlock homeplace.

After buying 139 acres in Wythe County from John and Nancy Hurst on 29 October 1812, in the next month on 10 November 1812, William Hurst witnessed the will of Abner Phillips in Surry County, North Carolina.^[20]As a previous posting states (and here), members of this Phillips family moved to Wayne County, Kentucky, where Thomas Whitlock’s daughter Sarah and her husband Thomas Brooks settled, and I suspect, though have not proven, that this Phillips family is related to Hannah Phillips, wife of Thomas Whitlock.

On 29 July 1817, William Hurst was a buyer at the estate of James Breeding in Wythe County.^[21] As information I’ve shared above suggests, there were thick ties of kinship and marriage between the Hurst and Breeding families going back from Wythe to Shenandoah County, ties I haven’t done sufficient research to sort out. The little I know about these is from information Gwen Hurst shared with me about the Hurst family.

I do not find William Hurst’s family on the 1820 federal census.

On 14 November 1826, Francis Allison sold William Hurst, both of Wythe County, for $600 100 acres on the east side of Reed Island Creek in Wythe County.^[22] The deed has no witnesses. Allison proved it the same day and it was recorded. Note that Gwen Hurst thought the William buying this land was William with wife Mildred Whitlock, but I’m not certain that’s the case. On 1 March 1836, Francis Allison made a lease with William Hurst Sr. and Jr. and Joseph Hurst, all of Wythe County, noting that he was leasing land in Wythe County on which he and William Hurst Sr. lived.^[23] The lease suggests that William Sr. was the father of William Jr. and Joseph, all of whom sign by mark, whereas William Hurst with wife Mildred was literate, had no son Joseph, and his son William was too young to be the person named as Jr. in this lease. 

William R. Hurst identifies the William Sr. of this deed as the William Hurst who married Rachel Cummins in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1798.^[24] According to William R. Hurst, William Hurst and wife Rachel had sons Joseph, William Jr., Jesse Thompson and Franklin, plus three daughters, and lived on Big Reed Island Creek near Allisonia in a part of Wythe County that became Pulaski County in 1839. This William Hurst with wife Rachel Cummins is, unfortunately, conflated over and over in online family trees with William “Big Bill” Hurst who married Mildred Whitlock.

This William Hurst with wife Rachel Cummins is also, I’m fairly sure, the William Hurst who, on 1 October 1827, bought 105 acres on the east side of Reed Island Creek in Wythe County from William and Patsy Lindsey, with all parties living in Wythe County.^[25] William Hurst paid $600 for this tract. The deed states that the land adjoined the 100 acres William had bought in November 1826 from Francis Allison. The deed has no witnesses. William Lindsey acknowledged the land sale and Patsy Lindsey relinquished dower before Randolph Fugate and William Crawford on the day the deed was made and it was recorded on 13 November.

William Hurst (with wife Mildred Whitlock) and his family are enumerated on the 1830 federal census in Wythe County.^[26] The household has a male aged 50-59, a male aged 10-14, and a male aged under five. It has a female aged 30-39, two females aged 15-19, and two females aged 5-9. There are also eight enslaved persons. Note that the census makes Mildred a decade younger than she actually was.

As noted above, on 11 September 1830, William Hurst’s siblings John (wife Molly), Sarah (husband Jacob Odle), Elizabeth (husband John Nunn), and Winifred (husband Spencer Breeding) deeded to him for $500 their interest in 100 acres on Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County that had belonged to Absalom Hurst, father of these Hurst siblings.^[27] As indicated previously, the deed states that the Hurst siblings were children of Absalom Hurst, deceased, and that the land was from a survey to Benjamin Clements and adjoined land owned by Benjamin Clements.

On 19 September 1831, James Calfee and Hannah his wife sold William Hurst, all of Wythe County, for $2,500 two tracts of land in Wythe County, one containing 199½ acres and the other 100 acres.^[28] The land lay on both sides of Little Reed Island Creek. On the day the deed was made, James acknowledged it and Hannah relinquished dower before James Crockett and Randolph Fugate. It was recorded on 5 November.

Hannah Calfee was a niece of Mildred Whitlock Hurst. As a previous posting notes, Mildred Whitlock’s niece Hannah Whitlock, daughter of Charles Whitlock and Mary Davies, married James Calfee, son of William Calfee and Mary Wilson of Wythe County about 1813-4. The 199½-acre tract that James and Hannah Calfee deeded in September 1831 to William Hurst was the land that Hannah’s grandfather Thomas Whitlock deeded to her and her sister Agnes on 11 May 1805 pursuant to a court order in the Whitlock vs. Whitlock case that required Thomas to deed to his granddaughters the land on which his son Charles had been living with their mother Mary Davies prior to Charles’s death.^[29]

The Calfee family was also intermarried with the Hurst family. William “Brindle Bill” Hurst, an uncle of William Hurst’s father Absalom discussed above, married Judith Calfee.^[30] Judith was an aunt of James Calfee who married Hannah Whitlock.

On 15 November 1831, William Hurst had a grant of 32 acres in Wythe County on a dry run of a branch of Reed Island Creek.^[31] This grant was pursuant to a warrant (#10315) issued 8 October 1827, with a survey made on 4 August 1830. Because of the location of this land, I’m inclined to think this is William Hurst with wife Rachel Cummins, who lived on Reed Island Creek, while William “Big Bill” Hurst and wife Mildred Whitlock lived on Little Reed Island Creek.

On 15 November 1831, William Hurst was appointed by Wythe County court to oversee a road from Fugates’ ford road to Abner Sayers’s place on Reed Island Creek.^[32] Fugate’s ford road was discussed in a previous posting which notes that on 10 May 1803, Wythe County court had received a report from commissioners appointed to view a proposed road from Randall Fugate’s to Humphrey Ellis’s stating that the road was reasonable.^[33] The court then appointed William Harrell Sr. to oversee the road, with David Sayers, Joseph Russell, James Calfee, and Thomas Whitlock or any three of them to appoint and allot hands for the road work.

On 5 August 1833, William Hurst and wife Mildred sold to William C. Suthern, all of Wythe County, for $600 100 acres on Little Reed Island Creek.^[34] The deed notes that this land was from a survey to Benjamin Clements (spelled Clemons here) and adjoined his land. William Hurst signed with Mildred making her mark. There were no witnesses. William Hurst acknowledged the deed and Mildred released dower in presence of William Crawford and Randolph Fugate on 5 August and the deed was recorded 13 August. A marginal note says that the deed was delivered to Suthern on 9 September 1835. William C. Suthern was William and Mildred Hurst’s son-in-law. He married their daughter Nancy on 1 December 1825. The 100-acre tract William and Mildred were selling here was, I think, the 100 acres they had bought from James and Hannah Calfee on 19 September 1831.

On 1 April 1834, Cyrus Adams sold William Hurst, both of Wythe County, for $100 400 acres on Little Reed Island Creek.^[35] The deed notes that the land adjoined land held by John Calfee, Lawrence Stephens, and Sayers. The deed has no witnesses. On 7 April Adams acknowledged the land sale and the deed was recorded.

On 1 March 1835, Rhoda, James, and Stephen Breeding sold William Hurst, all of Wythe County, for $175 30 acres on Little Reed Island.^[36] The deed says that the land adjoined William Hurst’s own land and the land of Esther Sayers. William Hurst’s son-in-law William C. Suthern (spelled Southern here) witnessed the deed. The Breedings proved the deed on 4 March before William Crawford and John Calfee, and it was recorded on 10 August.

William Hurst’s family appears on the 1840 federal census in Wythe County.^[37] The household has a male aged 60-69, a male 30-39, a male 20-29, and a male 10-14, along with a female 50-59, two females 20-29, and a female 15-19. There are also eight enslaved persons.

On 3 September 1842, William and Mildred Hurst sold to their son-in-law Samuel Hurst, husband of their daughter Lucinda, for $800 139 acres on Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County.^[38] The deed states that the tract had a survey date of 8 November 1782, so these are the 139 acres that William Hurst bought on 29 October 1812 from John and Nancy Hurst (see above). The deed states that the land was on Thomas Whitlock’s survey line and adjoined land Thomas Whitlock had owned. William signed with Mildred making her mark, and William affirmed the deed the day it was made before Samuel T. Calfee and Anderson Howard, with Mildred relinquishing dower. The deed was recorded 12 September 1842, and a marginal note says that it was delivered to Samuel Hurst on 4 February 1843.

Gwen Hurst thought that the Samuel Hurst who married William and Mildred’s daughter Lucinda was a son of William Hurst and Rachel Cummins, though William R. Hurst is, if I understand correctly, not certain this was the case.^[39]

In 1850, the family of William Hurst was again enumerated in Wythe County on the federal census.^[40] In the household are William, 71, Mildred, 66, and their son William, 21, all born in Virginia. William elder has a real worth of $12,000. Mildred is listed as illiterate. In the next household the family of William and Mildred’s son Allen Hurst and wife Rebecca and children is enumerated. I think it’s likely Allen (who has no real worth on this census) was farming with his father and younger brother William F. Hurst in 1850. Up to 1840, Wythe County federal censuses group people by the first letter of their surnames, so it’s not possible to use censuses prior to 1840 to determine who lived next to whom.

William Hurst is also enumerated on the 1850 slave schedule in Wythe County owning ten enslaved persons.^[41] I’ve provided a digital image of this document because, as we’ll see shortly, William made a will in 1857 giving names to some or perhaps all of these enslaved persons, and it may be possible for researchers trying to track these enslaved people to match the names in the will to people listed on the 1850 slave schedule by gender and age. This document spells William’s surname as Hurt.

Final Years, 1850-1860

On 2 February 1853, for $100, William and Mildred Hurst of Wythe County deeded 50 acres in Wythe County to their son William F. Hurst of Carroll County.^[42] William signed with Mildred making her mark. William acknowledged the deed the day it was made in presence of Samuel Hurst and James Matheny, justices of Wythe County, with Mildred relinquishing dower at the same time. The deed was recorded 15 November 1854.

On 11 May 1854, William and Mildred Hurst relinquished to their son William F. Hurst their rights to 34½ acres in Carroll County known as the Peak place.^[43] William signed with Mildred making her mark, and on the day the instrument was made, William acknowledged it and Mildred relinquished dower in presence of Samuel Hurst and James Matheny. The document was recorded in June 1854.

Mildred died within a month after this deed was made, on 8 June 1854, as noted previously. William Hurst then made his will in Wythe County on 22 January 1857 (see the digital image at the top of this posing).^[44] The will bequeaths to daughter Nancy Suthern the Surratt place in Carroll County, excepting from this tract a road leading from the ford up a hill to the northeast. William also leaves Nancy $400. To his daughter Elizabeth Carnahan, William leaves the land in Pulaski County on which she and her husband reside, as well as an enslaved woman Esther and her children, an enslaved man Tom, and $200. To his daughter Lucinda Hurst, William bequeaths an enslaved woman Sally and her children, an enslaved woman Chana and her son Nathaniel, and $200. William bequeaths to son Allen W. Hurst the land on which he lives that he got from James Calfee and also the land he got from the Breedens (i.e., Breedings), with the stipulation that these lands are to go to Allen’s sons Charles W. and William Hurst. To his daughter Virginia Suthern, William leaves the land in Pulaski County on which she and her husband lived, along with an enslaved woman Lucinda and her children, an enslaved female Mary, and $100. To his daughter Joanah Boyd, William bequeaths land in Carroll County known as the Hardy place, an enslaved woman Esther and her children and an enslaved male Baker, “by her paying to William F. Hurst Two hundred Dollars.” All the rest of his property, William leaves to be divided between his five daughters, who are named as Nancy Suthern, Elizabeth Carnahan, Lucinda Hurst, Virginia Suthern, and Joanah Boyd after the other amounts stipulated in the will have been settled and William’s debts paid. The will names William’s son-in-law Samuel Hurst as executor. It was witnessed by John H. Crawford, Newton Wheeler, and Luke S. Thompson. Wheeler and Thompson proved the will at January court 1861, and Samuel Hurst not being present as executor, Jackson Breeding was appointed curator of the estate, giving bond with Joseph Shaffer, Jesse Honaker, and Rufus F. Hurst.

The 1860 federal census shows William Hurst in Wythe County heading a household in which the family of his daughter Lucinda and husband Samuel Hurst are also living.^[45] William Hurst is 82, and his occupation is given as “none.” He has $4,500 personal worth. Samuel Hurst (who is 46) is a farmer with $2,000 real worth and $3,000 personal worth. It seems apparent from this census that William’s land is being farmed by his son-in-law Samuel, and that Samuel and wife Lucinda and their children are providing care for William in his final years.

William Hurst also appears in Wythe County’s district 68 on the 1860 federal slave schedule owning seven enslaved persons. Next to him is his son-in-law Samuel Hurst listed as owner of four enslaved persons.

This 1860 census entry for William Hurst was made 26 July. William died later in December on 15 December at home on Little Reed Island Creek in Wythe County. As I noted previously, his listing in Wythe County’s death register for 1860 states his date and place of death, gives his age as 82, and says that he was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia.^[46] His son Allen W. Hurst provided the information for this record. 

William Hurst’s estate in Wythe County was inventoried on 21 February 1861, with a sale held on the 25^th.^[47] William Crawford, Joseph M. Baker, and John King inventoried and appraised the estate with Samuel Hurst confirming the inventory and appraisal, which was recorded in March 1861. Buyers at the estate sale included William and Mildred’s son Allen and sons-in-law Samuel Hurst, William Carnahan, Uriah and William C. Suthern. The property list suggests that William Hurst was a farmer of means. 

The first entry in the inventory is the enslaved man named Tom who is named in William Hurst’s will as a bequest to his daughter Elizabeth Carnahan. This entry is followed by an unnamed enslaved child ten months old. None of the other enslaved persons named in William Hurst’s will appear in the inventory and appraisal or the sale document. According to Gwen Hurst’s notes, a record states that Tom was sold at the Wythe County courthouse on 10 February 1862 to Samuel Stephens for $1,200. The citation I have for this record is incomplete, and I have not found the record.

In her June 1993 letter to me cited above, Gwen Hurst tells me that she thinks William and Mildred Whitlock Hurst may be buried in the old Lawrence Stephens graveyard on Little Reed Island Creek in southeastern Wythe County. According to Mary B. Kegley, this cemetery is at Barren Springs off south state road 100 near Patterson.^[48] Kegley notes that Lawrence Stephens married Johannah, daughter of William Herbert and Sarah Fry, and was the son of Lawrence Stephens Sr. and a grandson of Peter Stephens, both of whom left wills in Frederick County, Virginia. As noted previously, On 1 April 1834, William Hurst bought land from Cyrus Adams on Little Reed Island Creek adjoining Lawrence Stephens. As a previous posting states, Thomas Whitlock’s land on Little Reed Island Creek also adjoined Lawrence Stephens. As previous postings also state (and here), William Herbert owned the Poplar Camp plantation in Wythe County.

William R. Hurst thinks that William and Mildred Hurst are likely buried in the Boyd/Hurst cemetery in Wythe County in which their son Allen is buried.^[49] Find a Grave calls this the Hurst cemetery and states that it’s at Barren Springs in Wythe County.^[50]

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^[1] Wythe County, Virginia, Death Register 1854, unpaginated, digitized at FamilySearch. The death certificate of which the page linked above provides a digital copy was sent to me as a photocopy by research Gwen Hurst, a descendant of William Hurst and Mildred Whitlock, in 1993 or 1994. She had obtained it from the Virginia Department of Vital Records. 

^[2] Gwen Hurst shared this information about William and Mildred living in Wythe County consistently after they married in a 20 June 1993 letter she sent me from Wai’anae, O’ahu, Hawaii.

^[3] Cumberland County, Kentucky, Will Bk. B, pp. 423-4.

^[4] Surry County, North Carolina, Marriage Bonds H, 1780-1868, available digitally at FamilySearch.

^[5] Wythe County, Virginia, Death Register 1860, unpaginated, digitized at FamilySearch.

^[6] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 11, pp. 560-1.

^[7] Shenandoah County, Virginia, Deed Bk. N, pp. 128-9. Gwen Hurst’s notes show that Absalom acquired the 200 acres on 31 August 1777 from Mathew Maddox of Shenandoah County: see Shenandoah County, Virginia, Deed Bk. C, p. 397.

^[8] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 4, p. 194.

^[9] Ibid., Deed Bk. 2, pp. 462-3.

^[10] William R. Hurst, “A New History of Two Hurst Families of Virginia,” and “The Hurst Families of Pulaski County, Virginia,” both at William R. Hurst Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy Website.

^[11] Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, vol. 4 (New York: Lewis, 1915), pp. 377f.

^[12] On this, see also William R. Hurst, “A New History of Two Hurst Families of Virginia.”

^[13] I have no proof of the given name of the daughter of Thomas Whitlock who married William Hannah, but am guessing she may have been named Agnes since she and William Hannah named a daughter Agnes.

^[14] 1810 federal census, Wythe County, Virginia, p. 281.

^[15] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 5, pp. 538-9.

^[16] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 2, pp. 108-9. 

^[17] Ibid., Bk. 5, pp. 78-9.

^[18] Wythe County, Virginia, Entry Bk. 1, p. 113; Wythe County, Virginia, Survey Bk. 1, p. 262.

^[19] Virginia Land Office Survey Bk. 4, pp. 654-5.

^[20] Surry County, North Carolina, Will Bk. 3, p. 103A.

^[21] Wythe County, Virginia, Will Bk. 2, pp. 191-2.

^[22] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 10, p. 392.

^[23] Ibid., Deed Bk. 14, pp. 21-2.

^[24] William R. Hurst, “The Hurst Families of Pulaski County, Virginia.”

^[25] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 10, pp. 600-1.

^[26] 1830 federal census, Wythe County, Virginia, p. 335.

^[27] See supra, n. 6. 

^[28] Ibid., Deed Bk. 12, pp. 137-8.

^[29] Ibid., Deed Bk. 4, pp. 291-2.

^[30] See William R. Hurst, “A New History of Two Hurst Families of Virginia,” and “The Hurst Families of Pulaski County, Virginia.”

^[31] Virginia Land Office Grant Bk. 80, p. 206.

^[32] Wythe County Court Order Bk. 33, p. 302.

^[33] Wythe County, Virginia, Court Order Bk. 1801-5, unpaginated, 10 May 1803.

^[34] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 12, pp. 425-6.

^[35] Ibid., pp. 565-6.

^[36] Ibid., Bk. 13, p. 167-9.

^[37] 1840 federal census, Wythe County, Virginia, p. 111.

^[38] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 15, pp. 613-4.

^[39] See William R. Hurst to Anne Eiland in a July 2004 thread on the Hurst forum at Genealogy.com discussing Lucinda and Samuel Hurst of Wythe County, Virginia, and Putnam County, Indiana; and William R. Hurst, “A New History of Two Hurst Families of Virginia.”

^[40] 1850 federal census, Wythe County, Virginia, Dist. 68, p. 309A (dwelling/family 1169; 4 September).

^[41] 1850 federal slave schedule, Wythe County, Virginia, Dist. 68 (27 August).

^[42] Wythe County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 19, pp. 553-4.

^[43] Carroll County, Virginia, Deed Bk. 4, pp. 141-2.

^[44] Wythe County, Virginia, Will Bk. 10, pp. 83-4.

^[45] 1860 federal census, Wythe County, Virginia, Dist. 68, p. 924 (dwelling 1526/family 1356; 26 July). 

^[46] See supra, n. 5.

^[47] Wythe County, Virginia, Will Bk. 10, pp. 100-3.

^[48] Mary B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, vol. 3 (Orange, Virginia: Green, 1980), p. 286.

^[49] See William R. Hurst to Anne Eiland in a July 2004 thread on the Hurst forum at Genealogy.com cited supra, n. 39.

^[50] See Find a Grave memorial page of Allen Whitlock Hurst, Hurst cemetery, Barren Springs, Wythe County, Virginia, created by Sue Hale Sheppard.