Jack, I am not related to you in any recognizable fashion, yet I have a distant cousin named Dr. Mosa West Hurt who passed away in 1939 in Graves County, Kentucky. His son Dr. Marion West Hurt passed away just two weeks ago on May 24, 2000 in Washington County, Georgia. Dr. Mosa West Hurt (1885-1939) was the son of my third great aunt Mary Alice West (1863-1936) and Dr. Amplias A. Hurt (1851-1917). Dr. Amplias and Alice West Hurt became the parents of nine children: Descendants of Amplias A. Hurt Generation No. 1 1. DR. AMPLIAS A. HURT was born January 07, 1851, and died February 10, 1917 in Graves County, Kentucky. He married MARY ALICE WEST February 15, 1882 in Graves County, Kentucky, daughter of JOHN WEST and ELIZA WATTS. She was born April 03, 1863 in West Plains, Graves County, Kentucky, and died August 21, 1936 in Graves County, Kentucky. Children of AMPLIAS HURT and MARY WEST are: i. REBA HURT, b. February 19, 1883, Graves County, Kentucky; d. February 04, 1965, Graves County, Kentucky; m. BERNARD RILEY; b. February 16, 1882; d. July 27, 1956. ii. DR. MOSA WEST HURT, b. 1885, Graves County, Kentucky; d. October 06, 1939, Graves County, Kentucky; m. PAULINE MCCAIN; b. January 22, 1892, Kentucky; d. October 1978, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. iii. ROSA MAY HURT, b. 1887, Graves County, Kentucky; d. December 21, 1948, Graves County, Kentucky. iv. D. LOCHRIDGE HURT, b. 1890, Graves County, Kentucky; d. 1891, Graves County, Kentucky. v. VERA CRUZ HURT, b. September 17, 1892, Graves County, Kentucky; d. October 05, 1982, Graves County, Kentucky; m. JAMES CALVIN MURPHY REED, Graves County, Kentucky; b. February 28, 1893; d. January 07, 1957, Graves County, Kentucky. vi. JOHN BRYAN HURT, b. 1894, Graves County, Kentucky; d. December 08, 1973, Graves County, Kentucky; m. LULA BELL HARREL; b. May 12, 1903, Kentucky; d. March 14, 1984, Graves County, Kentucky. vii. ELIZA J. HURT3, b. August 15, 1898, Graves County, Kentucky; d. April 18, 1984, Graves County, Kentucky. viii. CORA HURT, b. 1901, Graves County, Kentucky; d. 1962; m. ERBIE SCOTT; b. February 13, 1900; d. March 02, 1980, Graves County, Kentucky. ix. LOUISE HURT, b. October 03, 1905, Graves County, Kentucky; d. February 05, 1972. Based on the name Mosa (Moza) Hurt, it is extremely likely that the Hurts in Graves County, Kentucky, are descended from the Hurts of Caroline County, Virginia. Mary Alice West Hurt is the granddaughter of a Richard West of Logan County, Kentucky. Amazingly, while researching the possible ancestry of my West family in Virginia, I stumbled across a different Richard West and the Moza Hurt that you are researching among Caroline County, Virginia, records: This record was obtained from a Caroline County, Virginia, order book: - March 9, 1758 - On the petition of Mose Hurt, it is ordered to have the following hands added to the road he is overseer of: Peter Robinson's quarter, Richard Corbin, Esqr's quarter, Stephen Stone's, Charles Blanton, Richard West, John Bavarack, Thomas Hays, and John Crutchfield's to assist in keeping the road in repair. (Caroline County Order Book) From COLONIAL CAROLINE: A HISTORY OF CAROLINE COUNTY, VIRGINIA by T. E. Campbell, The Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, 1954: p. 362 Caroline Constables (1732-76): Moza Hurt was a constable in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1752. p. 361 The court named a constable for each precinct to serve the magistrates in residence as bailiff, to enforce the law and to maintain order. This office was without a fixed term. Constables served until they resigned, moved away, died or were removed by the court. It was a position of high fatalities. Most Caroline constables either resigned or were removed from office. p. 481 ESTATES & EXECUTORS OR ADMINISTRATORS 1769 [Year of death] Decedent Exec. or Adm. Moza Hurt Thomas Jones It is my personal belief that the Moses Hurt in the following passage and the Moza Hurt mentioned earlier are one and the same. (I believe that Moza is an abbreviated form of Moses.) p. 99-100 10. NEW CHURCHES Only the efforts of conscientious laymen kept the Established Church of the colony from falling into complete disrepute in St. Margaret's Parish. These men sought to get rid of the rector, sheer off the King William portion of the parish to facilitate administration, and set up more churches for the convenience of the worshipers. But they worked against great odds. Ecclesiastical authorities blocked every reform until the Quakers threatened to take over the upper end of the parish and the Presbyterians the lower section of Caroline. In 1741 John Sutton, one of the church wardens of the parish, Richard George whom the court had fined for non-attendance of church upon the information of Margaret Connor, John Wiley, Moses Hurt and John Dyer, gained permission to build a church on the lands of Richard George near Reedy Mill. This building became known as Reedy Church. Traces of its foundation still remain (1953) on a site near Edmund Pendleton School.... p. 35 While [Robert] Beverley resented royal governors regranting land when the title was already vested in his name, he had little patience with idle acres. He considered that he held in trust for future settlement all tracts of which he was unable personally to supervise the cultivation, and that it was his sacred duty to see that this property became the homes of the proper type of people. Shortly after he took up residence along Beverley's Run, he hired Col. James Taylor to divide his 16,000 acres along the Pamunkey-North Anna into sixteen 1,000 acres tracts. He reserved two of these subdivisions for himself and deeded the rest, one lot each to his sisters, Mary, Margaret, Susanna, Catherine, Agatha and Judith; to his friends, William Wiley and John Wiley, Henry Gains and Bartholomew Yates and to his cousins, William Elizabeth, Beverly and Ann Stennard. At least eight of these original grantees were women and through intermarriage and sale the bulk of this land passed to the Morris, Hunter, Wyatt and Hurt families. With respect to Philemon Hurt, the father of Moza Hurt, he passed away in 1739, thirty years before the death of his son. p. 471 ESTATES & EXECUTORS OR ADMINISTRATORS 1739 [Year of death] Decedent Exec. or Adm. Philemon Hurt Griggs Yarbrough Simply for inclusion in your genealogical records, a Titus Hurt passed away in 1772, leaving two orphaned children, Elizabeth and Agnes Hurt. A James Hurt also died in the same year. p. 484 ESTATES & EXECUTORS OR ADMINISTRATORS 1772 [Year of death] Decedent Exec. or Adm. Titus Hurt John Sutton, Nathaniel Norment & Samuel Burruss James Hurt Clara Hurt I have also included the Wests in the excerpt below: p. 493 GUARDIANS AND WARDS [The ( ) indicate the father of the ward.] Date Ward Guardian 1772 Ignatius West (Richard) Samuel Burruss John West (Richard) William Peatross Joseph and Ann West (Richard) William Young William and Alice West (Richard) Charles West Elizabeth and Agnes Hurt (Titus) James Ware I hope that this information has been of great assistance to you, Jack. Cordially yours, Benjamin M. West bmwest@usit.net