Woodward Co. OK - History Hurst/Riggs

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Submitted by: VELDA SALDANA   velda_saldana@hp.com
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I am a descendant of the Hurst & Riggs families of Woodward County,
Oklahoma.

My Mother was LeeOna Helen Hurst (1913-1992) she graduated from Mutual High
School on 18 MAY 1932 and I have her graduation diploma.  

She was daughter of Ellen Sarah Riggs (1893-1989) & Lewis W. Hurst
(1888-1973) both of Woodward County 
(though born elsewhere each came at an early age with parents to homestead)

Ellen Parents:  Sarah Ellen Waldrip (1859-1938) and Samuel Riggs
(1855-1942)
Lewis Parents:  John Hurst (1848-1891, Kansas) and Cassey Eliza (aka Kate)
Walter Hurst Mize (1849-1938) she is buried at a little cemetery in
Mooreland (McCoy Cemetery) in Woodward County, Oklahoma.  A monument in
front of the Woodward Museum is a piece of a petrified tree that was once
on Grandma Hurst-Mize's homestead.


Behind mother's diploma is a list of other cMutual Class of 1932 grads:

Thelma I. Holmes
Willie B. Winstead
Olive G. Grove
Aletha Z. Savere
LeeOna H. Hurst
Elwyn B. Ford
Lawrence A. Nelson (uncle Walter's brother???)
Lester J. Wills
Loyd T. Saxton
Durward R. Borden
Walter O. Nelson (Uncle, married to Aunt Louise)**a really wonderful guy!
Elmer B. Peach  (also related, Lola Hurst mama's cousin on her Daddy's side
married Elmer's brother Perry)
Virgil R. League

Class Flower: Sweet Pea
Class Colors:  Pink & Green
Class Motto:  Impossible is Unamerican
Superintendent:  John Bish
Principal:  Ruth Cripps
Pres. Bd. of Educ.:  John Grunnerwald (sp?)
Sec. Bd. of Educ.:  Can't read it - scribbles.

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I know that Kate Hurst came to Oklahoma with her two sons Lewis 15 and 
Oliver 13 on a passanger train a few years after the death of her husband. 
Her elder son Own came on the Chartered Train Car that held all their 
belongings. I can only assume that Eugene & Ernest were already married 
in Kansas.

John Hurst (1848, Wayne Co, Ohio -1891, Sanders County, Wahoo NB)
married Kate Walters (1849 birthplace unknown-1938 Woodward County
Oklahoma) they had the following children:
Eugene dob?
Ernest dob?
Owen dob?
Lewis born Feb. 27 1880 in Wahoo Nebraska
Ruth born about 1881 in Wahoo NB
Oliver Hurst born 1882 in Wahoo NB

The following is my Grandmother Ellen's writings:
Mother Hurst had visited from in Oklahoma and bought a farm.
Then in 1904 she chartered a Train Car. (Dates are confusing because in
1904 Lewis would have been 24 years old) They brought 3 horses, 1 coe, 
some chickens, all her furniture and a buggie. Lewis, Oliver and Mother Hurst
came on the passanger train. Owen came with the chartered car. They lived
on the farm for about 8 years then they sold the farm to Charlie Thompson.
In 1909 Oliver was married to Jennie Merklin.
In 1910 Lewis married Ellen Sarah Riggs.
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I have more info on both these families and would like to cooperate with
other Hursts or Riggs from the same line. It is said that some of the
Hursts ended up in Hutchinson Kansas. If you are out there email me please!
velda_saldana@hp.com