Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
NamePvt. Richard Wilson HURDLE 
147,404, Richard W Hurdle-Male-1841 – Deceased- •-LVN9-ZL3,470, Pvt R W Hurdle
147,404, Richard W Hurdle-Male-1841 – Deceased- •-LVN9-ZL3,470, Pvt R W HurdleBirthFeb 5, 1842, North Carolina147,404, Richard W Hurdle-Male-1841 – Deceased- •-LVN9-ZL3,470, Pvt R W Hurdle
DeathJul 27, 1917, Winnsboro, TX147,470, Pvt R W Hurdle
BurialWinnsboro City Cemetery, Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas470, Pvt R W Hurdle
FatherDickey HURDLE (1812-1852)
MotherNarcissa Ann LEATH (1818-1854)
Obituary Online notes for Pvt. Richard Wilson HURDLE
TENNESSEE
CO K 6 REGT TENN INF
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY 470, Pvt R W Hurdle
RICHARD WILSON HURDLE:
Wilson didn't return from the Civil War, but stopped in Texas.
He fought in the Civil War with is brothers, William Jams and John A. He saw his brother William shot and killed in Winchester, Virginia.
Following information from Michael Hurdle:
According to an interview conducted by Pat Adams with Bernice Hurdle Denney on May 15, 1974 in Dallas, Texas:
"R. W. Hurdle served with his brothers in the Civil War and saw his brother, Will, mortally wounded as they were going through the yankee-occupied town of Winchester, VA. Will was shot from the doorway of a building as they passed by. They raced on, but upon reaching a field on the outskirts Will could go no further. Feeling death approaching he urged his brothers (John Hurdle was there too) to go on so they wouldn't be captured. They stayed as long as they could, but as the Yankees approached they made him as comfortable as possible and escaped.
After the war they returned home to a desolate situation. So much had been burned on Sherman's March to the Sea. The parents had died prior to the Civil War, with the younger children "farmed out" to older sisters and relatives. The Yankees auctioned off the homeplace and belongings to the highest bid, and none of Dickey Hurdle's children got their just inheritance. R. W. had a little money and all he was able to purchase at the sale was the family Bible, begun by Dickey Hurdle. (This Bible is now in the possession of Bernice Hurdle Denney's oldest son: George H. Denney of Silver City, New Mexico).
R. W. Hurdle was in love with his cousin, Elizabeth (?), but they couldn't marry because of "blood". Everything was so "heartbreaking and disappointing" that he got on a horse and took off for Texas. There he ran a grist mill for Jack Nance in Mount Vernon -- and later married his widow, a good bit older than he. They had a son, George D. Hurdle, and moved to Winnsboro, Texas so he could go to school. There R.W. became a carpenter-craftsman who loved to work with wood.
In many ways R.W. was a "very peculiar person". He seemed to "know" things before they happened. After he got to Texas he had a dream of the death of his sister -- seeing his other sister weeping. When he awakened he recorded the date and hour. Several weeks later he received a letter from his sister (the one "seen" weeping) relating the death of her sister at the exact time of his dream.
R. W. firmly believed in physical health, advocating and practicing exercise and eating "health foods" before they became popular.
Even in his late years he would set up obstacle courses in the front yard to run and jump over it with the children.
He used to brew alfalfa tea and make his own health foods from grains, etc. which he routinely served his granddaughters (much to their chagrin).
A record-keeper by instinct, he carefully recorded much of the family history in an old courthouse ledger." 147
CO K 6 REGT TENN INF
CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY 470, Pvt R W Hurdle
RICHARD WILSON HURDLE:
Wilson didn't return from the Civil War, but stopped in Texas.
He fought in the Civil War with is brothers, William Jams and John A. He saw his brother William shot and killed in Winchester, Virginia.
Following information from Michael Hurdle:
According to an interview conducted by Pat Adams with Bernice Hurdle Denney on May 15, 1974 in Dallas, Texas:
"R. W. Hurdle served with his brothers in the Civil War and saw his brother, Will, mortally wounded as they were going through the yankee-occupied town of Winchester, VA. Will was shot from the doorway of a building as they passed by. They raced on, but upon reaching a field on the outskirts Will could go no further. Feeling death approaching he urged his brothers (John Hurdle was there too) to go on so they wouldn't be captured. They stayed as long as they could, but as the Yankees approached they made him as comfortable as possible and escaped.
After the war they returned home to a desolate situation. So much had been burned on Sherman's March to the Sea. The parents had died prior to the Civil War, with the younger children "farmed out" to older sisters and relatives. The Yankees auctioned off the homeplace and belongings to the highest bid, and none of Dickey Hurdle's children got their just inheritance. R. W. had a little money and all he was able to purchase at the sale was the family Bible, begun by Dickey Hurdle. (This Bible is now in the possession of Bernice Hurdle Denney's oldest son: George H. Denney of Silver City, New Mexico).
R. W. Hurdle was in love with his cousin, Elizabeth (?), but they couldn't marry because of "blood". Everything was so "heartbreaking and disappointing" that he got on a horse and took off for Texas. There he ran a grist mill for Jack Nance in Mount Vernon -- and later married his widow, a good bit older than he. They had a son, George D. Hurdle, and moved to Winnsboro, Texas so he could go to school. There R.W. became a carpenter-craftsman who loved to work with wood.
In many ways R.W. was a "very peculiar person". He seemed to "know" things before they happened. After he got to Texas he had a dream of the death of his sister -- seeing his other sister weeping. When he awakened he recorded the date and hour. Several weeks later he received a letter from his sister (the one "seen" weeping) relating the death of her sister at the exact time of his dream.
R. W. firmly believed in physical health, advocating and practicing exercise and eating "health foods" before they became popular.
Even in his late years he would set up obstacle courses in the front yard to run and jump over it with the children.
He used to brew alfalfa tea and make his own health foods from grains, etc. which he routinely served his granddaughters (much to their chagrin).
A record-keeper by instinct, he carefully recorded much of the family history in an old courthouse ledger." 147