Biographical Sketch (1923):34, p. 666. Daughter "Mary Hurst was born in Manchester, England, April 2, 1818 and emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1831. The family located in Philadelphia, Pa., where they remained for a few years, and then removed to Newport, Kentucky."

Biographical Sketch (1923):34, p. 666-667. "[The Hursts], who came to this country from Manchester, England, were typical Lancashire people and spoke English with a pronounced Lancashire dialect. The family located in Philadelphia, Pa., where they remained for a few years, and then removed to Newport, Ky. After living in Newport, Ky., for some years the Hursts moved to a tract of land which Mr. Hurst had bought in the vicinity of Grants Lick in Campbell County, Kentucky, where the family lived contentedly until an accident befell Mr. Hurst while returning from Alexandria, which resulted in his death. Mrs. Hurst lived until eighty-eight years of age, cared for in her declining years by a devoted daughter, Jane E. (Hurst) Darlington."