David Wiley Hurst:
Born: July 10, 1819
Birthplace: Summit Pike County Mississippi
Father: Captain Richard Hurst 1778 – 1835
Mother: Alice Berry Lattimore 1777 – 1846
Wife: Sarah E. Tillston 1828 – 1911
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi)
Children:
Harris Priuli Hurst 1848 – 1904
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi)
Abdel O. Hurst 1850 – 1916
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi)
Kaloolah Hurst Lamkin 1853 – 1894
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi)
David Warren Hurst 1865 – 1879
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi)
Education:
Attended Oakland College
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Amite County Mississippi
1848 – 1850: Mississippi State Representative
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Mississippi State Secession Convention
At the convention he would vote against Secession in Mississippi.
1862: Captain Company K 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862 – 1864: Colonel of 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Siege of Corinth Mississippi
1864: Resigned as Colonel in the Confederate Army on January 5th.
1864 – 1865: Judge of Mississippi State High Court of Errors
Occupation after War:
Attorney and Judge in Pike County Mississippi
Died: July 10, 1882
Place of Death: Summit Mississippi
Age at time of Death: 63 years old
Burial Place: Woodlawn Cemetery Summit Mississippi
(Obit clipping information: July 26, 1882 Edition of The Clarion Page 2)
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