Biography of John M Hurley, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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John M. Hurley, farmer and stockman, was born in Franklin County, Tennessee,
in 1850, and, at the age of ten months, he was removed by his parents to
Independence County, Ark., and here has received his education and rearing. At
the age of fourteen years he moved with his parents to the State of Illinois,
and during his four years' residence in that State his time was employed in
attending school, his educational advantages being excellent. They next settled
in Jasper County, Mo., near Carthage, where John M. made his home for eight
years, then removing to Benton County, Ark. Prior to this, he had spent about
eighteen months in Colorado, and had worked in the mines in Leadville,
accumulating thereby quite a sum of money. He was married in Benton County, to
Miss Anna Hale, a native of the county, and two children blessed their union:
William M. and Fannie C., who died at the age of four months. In March, 1876,
his wife died in Dallas County, Tex., and he was afterwards married to Miss
Sarah J. Haddock, who was born in Independence County, Ark. Three of their four
children are living: Charles A., James A., who died at the age of three years;
W. W. and Thomas W. Since 1878 Mr. Hurley has resided in Independence County,
and has turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, being engaged in tilling
forty acres of his eightyacre farm. He is a Republican in politics, and is a
member of the Agricultural Wheel. His father, John Hurley, was born and reared
in Tennessee, and was married there to Miss Sarah A. Harrington. He is yet
living, and resides in Webb City, of Jasper County, Mo. The mother died in
1875, on her birthday (the 14th of October), at the age of fifty-five years.
The paternal grandfather was born in the State of Maryland, was an early
resident of Tennessee, and a hatter by occupation. He was of Scotch descent and
lived to be 107 years old. His wife was a Denton. John Hurley, the father of
our subject, reared a family of fifteen children, eleven sons and four
daughters. The first ten children were sons, then came a daughter, then another
son, and afterwards three more daughters. Of the ten sons who grew to manhood
none of them ever drank liquor or used tobacco until after they were grown. All
are married and have families of their own. They held a family reunion in
January, 1889, and the father was there, aged seventy-seven years.