. History of Savannah and South Georgia . arket for it at Tallahassee. He spentall the rest of his life on that homestead, and his remains now rest inthe family lot on the farm. His wife survived him several years. Intheir family were children named William, Thomas, Betsy, Susie,Serena, John W. and Harriet. John W. Hurst, the father, was a boy when his parents moved toThomas county, and after his marriage he settled on a tract of landone mile away from his fathers home. A few years later, in 1842, hebought other land one mile east of Thomasville. and conducted hisplantation with the aid of sla
. History of Savannah and South Georgia . arket for it at Tallahassee. He spentall the rest of his life on that homestead, and his remains now rest inthe family lot on the farm. His wife survived him several years. Intheir family were children named William, Thomas, Betsy, Susie,Serena, John W. and Harriet. John W. Hurst, the father, was a boy when his parents moved toThomas county, and after his marriage he settled on a tract of landone mile away from his fathers home. A few years later, in 1842, hebought other land one mile east of Thomasville. and conducted hisplantation with the aid of slave labor up to the time of the war. Hecontinued to make his home there until his death at the age of thirty-nine. Soon after his marriage, he had engaged in one of the Indiancampaigns, which marked the final struggle between the whites and thered man in Florida and Georgia. He participated in two battles withthe Indians, and in the latter was severely wounded. John W. Hurstmarried Maria Hicks, a daughter of George Hicks, one of the first.
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