In reading a blog post on the old Purdy cemetery this morning, I wondered how Major Benjamin Wright’s monument was holding up. It was 2004 when I took the picture below of it and I seriously doubt that I will ever, ever, never, ever visit that cemetery again to check on it.
Also, I notice that […]
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Filed under: Old Purdy Cemetery, Early Settlers of McNairy Co., Purdy
In the wake of Lincoln’s election, a convention of eight influential citizens of McNairy County
Richard Cross
Fielding Hurst
John H. Meeks
A.A. Sanders
Stanford L. Warren
Dew M. Wisdom
Congressman John V. Wright
met on December 3, 1860 to discuss its ramifications and future courses of action for their country and state.
(Hurst’s Wurst, Page 2)
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Filed under: Kevin D. McCann, Timeline, Hurst's Wurst, Early Settlers of McNairy Co., Purdy, Col. Fielding Hurst, TN
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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