Cumberland-Newhanover County NcArchives Obituaries.....Hurt, Albert P June 8, 1883
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Fayetteville Observer  June 14th 1883  Vol. XLVIII No. 29
SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPT. HURT.—Last Friday, at about dinner-time, the community 
was startled by the news that Capt. Hurt had been found dead in his room at 
the Fayetteville Hotel.  About 12 m. Capt. Hurt went to his room to lie down, 
Mr. Chas. Glover, the proprietor of the hotel, handing him a paper to read as 
he passed.  At dinner-time a servant went up to his room, but returned to the 
office and reported that he could not be roused.  Mr. Glover then went to the 
room and found that Capt. Hurt was indeed dead, though his body was still 
warm.  Physicians were summoned who pronounced it a case of apoplexy, and Dr. 
J. W. McNeill, the coroner, considered the cause of death so patent as to 
obviate the necessity of an inquest.  The deceased was not a man of robust 
health but he was not an invalid, and was apparently as well as usual, talking 
with friends and acquaintances an hour or two before his sudden death.

	Capt. Hurt was for many years prominently identified with our boating 
interests, being one of the best known captains on the river and a large 
stockholder in one of the lines.  A steamer now plies the Cape Fear, bearing 
his name.  After the war Capt. Hurt engaged in mercantile business for a time, 
but of late years he has led a life of quiet and retirement, spending the 
summer in the mountains and the winter in Fayetteville.  He was a Virginian by 
birth, and was about 73 years of age.

Additional Comments:
Albert P. Hurt was born in Lunenburgh, VA about 1807.  By one record, he was 
the son of Macon Hurt and Nancy Gunn.  Macon Hurt died about 1808.  A. P. Hurt 
married Morgiana C. Erambert, the daughter of Henry M. Erambert, a 
Fayetteville, NC “confectioner”, on November 19, 1840. 

Captain A. P. Hurt was a prominent, Cape Fear River, steamboat captain.  
According to an advertisement for the Cape Fear Steamboat Lines, in “Bernard’s 
Wilmington and Fayetteville Directory 1866-‘7”, the steamer, “Governor Worth” 
was piloted by Capt. A. P. Hurt and the steamer, “A. P. Hurt” was piloted by 
Capt. Samuel W. Skinner.

A photograph of the River Steamer - "A. P. Hurt" from The Dr. Robert M. Fales 
Collection, Slide Number 628 is currently available online: 
http://wwwtmpapps.nhcgov.com/lib/history/fales/pages/slides/628.htm

The Cape Fear Steamboat Company was owned and operated by the Worths.  Joseph 
A. Worth, was the Fayetteville agent for the company.  A. H. Worth, a son of 
J. A. Worth, married Almeda “Meda” Hurt, the daughter of Capt. A. P. Hurt.  In 
1873, Capt. Albert H. Worth became the captain of the steamer “A. P. Hurt” 
succeeding Capt. Skinner.

Capt. Samuel W. Skinner was married to Emily J. Erambert and their home was in 
Wilmington, NC.

Capt. Hurt died 8th June 1883 and according to his tombstone was about 76 
years of age.  Morgiana Hurt died in 1870.  Capt. Hurt and his wife Morgiana 
are buried in the Cross Creek Cemetery #1, just a few feet from busy Grove 
Street in Fayetteville, NC.  In 1923, the steamer, “A. P. Hurt” sank at 
Wilmington.  Her iron hull currently sits in about 15 feet of water.

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