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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 447-448

Judge William H. Hurt was born in Macon county, Ala., in 1846, the only son of 
Elisha Fletcher and Amanda A (Marshall) Hurt, natives of Putnam county and 
Talbot county, Ga.  E. F. Hurt was a boy when his brought by his parents to 
Russell county, Ala., where he received a common school education, and grew to 
manhood.  Returning to Georgia, after reaching his majority, he married Miss 
Marshall, in Talbot county, and then located in Macon county, Ala., where he 
died in the prime of life, when Judge Hurt was but an infant.  He had won for 
himself the reputation of being a skillful and progressive farmer, and an 
upright citizen.  He was one of the large family of Henry Hurt, who was 
probably of English descent, and who came from Georgia to Russell county, Ala., 
at a very early day in the history of the state.  After the death of her 
husband, Mrs. Amanda A. Hurt was married to James T. Burt, and died in Lee 
county, Ala., about 1880.  She was a daughter of Hon. William B. Marshall, of 
Talbot county, Ga., a man of much prominence, who had been a member of the 
state legislature and of the secession convention of 1861.  By vocation, he was 
a farmer and mechanic.  William H. Hurt was reared a farmer boy, and at the 
early age of fifteen, in 1861, joined company C, Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, 
and took part in many of the hardest fought battles of Virginia, including 
Winchester, Port Republic, seven days around Richmond, Cross Keys, second 
Manassas, Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, where he 
was captured July 2, 1863, and confined in Fort Delaware until June, 1865, 
nearly two years.  He served as orderly-sergeant of his company during a 
portion of his term of service, and was once slightly wounded.  On his return 
home, he attended school a short time, and then engaged in farming, which has 
been his life-long pursuit.  In 1867 he married Miss Theresa E., daughter of 
Dr. James S. Moore, of Georgia, but an early settler of Macon county, Ala., 
whose death occurred at Warrior Stand, Ala., shortly after the close of the 
war.  He was a graduate of West Point Military academy in the class with Robert 
E. Lee, and was for many years a successful physician.  Mrs. Hurt was born in 
Macon county, became the mother of five children – all still living- and died a 
devout Methodist, in August, 1884.  In 1888 the judge married Mary Jessie, a 
daughter of Prof. G. A. Granberry, now a teacher at Dothen, Ala., but formerly 
of Harris county, Ga., where Mrs. Hurt was born.  From 1875 to 1880, Mr. Hurt 
served as tax collector of Macon county; in 1886 he was elected probate judge, 
and was re-elected in 1892, so satisfactory had been his attention to his 
duties.  He is a member of Tuskegee lodge, No. 57, F. & A. & M., is a member of 
the Knights and Legion of Honor, and with his wife, of the Methodist Episcopal 
church.

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