---------- > I am researching the Purvis and Spurr family of Owen county, Kentucky and anyone with a link to the family. John Spurr and his wife, America Devore, were married in Clark county, Kentucky around the year 1829. They moved to Owen county by the mid 1850s and lived in the Gratz area. They had 13 children. John died about 1861. America was still alive in 1900 when she was living with her daughters family, Mahula Sharp. Dudley Spurr, a son of John and America, married Mary "Polly" Purvis around the year 1860. Mary was the daughter of Samual Purvis and Nancy Rutherford that had moved to the Gratz area of Owen county around the mid 1850s. No record of Mary and Dudley's marriage. A mystery involves there daughter, Nancy Ellen. She is listed as a one year old child in the household of Mary's mother in the 1860 census. I wonder if Dudley is her real father. Mary died in 1889 and Dudley married Dora Stewart in 1891 and had 6 more children. Dudley died in 1909 and was said to have been a Mason in the Gratz lodge ( anyone know how to contact them?) After Dudley Died, Dora married Charles Purvis in 1911. He died in 1918 and Dora about 1920. All are in unmarked graves around gratz. Nancy Ellen Spurr, daughter of Mary and Dudley, is said to have married a George Thacker in the 1880s. No record of this marriage and no Thacker researcher can place him. Had twins Rose and Richard, about 1885, Richard died as a baby Nancy remarried to Benjamin Franklin Purvis around 1888 ( again no record of it) and moved to Henry county in the 1890s.