This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurt, Anderson, Stamper, Ray, Simpson, Long, Newby, Tudor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xAB.2ACI/2152 Message Board Post: The passing, recently of Mrs. Jane Wray Hurt, relict of Joshua Hurt, who preceded her to the grave by a few years, marks the passing of the oldest generation of the Hurt family. An unobtrusive, law abiding, God-fearing people, the Hurts have long dwelt a quarter of a mile from the Richmond Road in a splendid home on back creek; a home noted for its hospitality from whose doors no person, regardless of their station in life as ever turned hungry. Devout members of the Christian church at Fairview, of thich Mr. Joshua Hurt was an Elder, and whose purse strings had twice opened generously to rebuild the old structure damaged by the elements; their children, five boys and two girls surviving, were also raised in this faith. The Hurts are a remarkable family: Sam Hurt whittled his way to fame and moderate fortune by making cob pipes which are smoked by everyone from the Garrard county fox hunters to United States Senators and men of note throughout the world. The other boys, Dave, Jim, Tom and Will, are no less talented. Not one of them but can take down and reassemble any piece of machinery from a radio outfit to a threshing machine. They have in their home one of the most complete and efficient radio outfits in the country, bought piece by piece and assembled by themselves. They own and operate two threshing outfits, they are expert carpenters, brick and stone masons, can rejuvenate old furniture and one of them is master of almost a lost art, Jim Hurt is an expert sharpener of mill stones, a trade almost extenct. They are at present engaged in the erection of a neat brick and frame bungalow on the Richmond road, which will be when completed, a masterpiece of architecture and will be occupied by Thomas, who conducts a blacksmith shop and garage at Point Leavell, who is also a master workman and capable of earning his living at several trades. One of the surviving sister, Jennie, married a local blacksmith, Mr. Auburn VanHuss, who is also a mechanic of parts; the other sister, Sallie, married Isaac Bowling, who owns and resides upon a farm near Oxford, Ohio.