The family of Allen Hurst trace their lineage to William Hurst and wife Margey (Margaret or Marjorie) Blacknare of Buckinghamshire, England, who were married on October 19, 1601. A son Christopher Hurst was born in 1612 and died in 1659. Christopher's son, William II, was born in Buckinghamshire in 1640 and died in 1700. William II's, son John I, was born in 1700 and he along with his brother William III (wife Judith Caffrey), and James came to America in 1730 with their families. The children of John Hurst I, were: Thomas, Absalom, Elijah, William, and John II, a Revolutionary War patriot. During the struggle for American independence, the Hurst family lived in spotslvania County, Virginia. Following the war, some of the family migrated south into Tennessee. Elijah Hurst, son of John I, was a prominent citizen of Grainger County. His son John Hurst Sr was born in Virginia and died in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Ball Creek in 1843. John Hurst's first wife and the mother of his children was Elizabeth Thompson of Virginia. At her death John Hurst Sr married sallie Warren. Old Time Tazewell written by Mary A. sansard, and published by Mary Lerona Hansard Wilson in 1978, page 221, describes John Hurst and his wife Sallie Hurst. "John Hurst, son of Elijah Hurst was a very prominent citizen in Grainger County... his wife was Sallie Warren a very tall fine looking lady... he was tall also, and they were called Long John and Long Sallie since there were others in the family named John and Sallie living nearby." At John's death, Sallie married a wealthy widower named Stewart and went to his home in Kentucky where she died. John and Elizabeth Thompson Hurst's children were: Squire Caldwell Hurst born in 1808 and died in 1895, married Nellie Sharp in Claiborne County, Tennessee on February 27, 1840; Nellie Hurst was born in 1818 and died in 1908; Matilda Hurst born in 1813, married Eli Graves; Thomas Hurst; Lucinda Hurst married John Graves on May 23, 1840; Campbell Hurst born 1818 moved to Hardin County, Tennessee; serena Hurst married a Golden; James Hurst born 1823, married Elizabeth (?); Malocky Burst; Eliza Jane Hurst married a poindexter; Martha Hurst married a Dexter; John Hurst Jr.; Jasper Hurst, and Allen Hurst. The lineage of Allen Hurst is gleaned from the "History of the Hurst Family" compiled by Phillip H. Hurst, special writer for the Claiborne Progress in a series of articles that began an March 18, 1982.
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