Thanks to Nancy Kennedy for her email on this topic. Nancy, was chairman of the group that put together the Reflections book in the first place and she says the Early Settlers image is correct and that is D.W. Hester. She stated that the picture of ‘Fielding and Locky’ was in fact NOT […]
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Filed under: D.W. Hester Mystery, Early Settlers of McNairy Co., Melocky "Locky" Huddleston Hurst, Col. Fielding Hurst
Click the picture to enlarge. Notice anyone familiar? Did someone try to rewrite history and wipe Fielding Hurst off of the Early Settlers of McNairy County poster?
I have seen this poster several times and it is on page 13 of “REFLECTIONS: A History of McNairy County, Tennessee 1823 - 1996″. There is something very odd […]
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Filed under: Early Settlers of McNairy Co., D.W. Hester Mystery, Col. Fielding Hurst, Purdy, TN, Hurst Nation
Despair for the children
who lie now in bed.
The widow, the aged
the soldier who bled.
For out of the "Nation"
comes a sickness and curse -
God save us all
From the demon called Hurst.
Like vandals of old
through our land they did ride
With Hunger and Death
always close by their side.
Came Terror, his herald -
but the wailing comes first . . .
We know he is coming,
That demon called Hurst.
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