Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Dallas Morning News - Sunday, July 21, 1929 edition, pg. 8 J. D. Hurst, Resident of Wortham, is Dead WORTHAM, Texas, July 20 - J. D. Hurst, 68, resident of Wortham for more than forty years died in a hospital at Wichita Falls. Funeral services were held Saturday at the First Baptist Church here, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Rodgers. Services at the Wortham Cemetery were in charge of the Masons. Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Will Land, and a granddaughter, Miss Margaret Land of Clifton; one brother, Mont Hurst of Dallas. Mr. Hurst was a member of the Baptist Church, was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.