Simon, Hurd, Dolan, and Related Families

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Oscar Matthew Hurd

Oscar Matthew Hurd

Male 1896 - 1972  (75 years)

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  • Name Oscar Matthew Hurd 
    Born 5 Sep 1896  Felton, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Feb 1972  Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Sandtown, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 6 siblings 
    Person ID I3695  Simon and Related Families | Descendants of William Hurd (died after 1778)
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2009 

    Father Thomas W. Hurd,   b. 3 May 1862, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Nov 1919, near Felton, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Rachel Kemp,   b. 21 Sep 1865, Hollandsville, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Apr 1938, Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Married Abt 1880 
    Family ID F929  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Edwards,   b. 28 Aug 1900, Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1993, Dover, Kent County, Delaware, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years) 
    Married 9 May 1925  Goldsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
    Last Modified 26 Jan 2015 
    Family ID F1201  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 5 Sep 1896 - Felton, Kent County, Delaware, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 9 May 1925 - Goldsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 29 Feb 1972 - Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Sandtown, Kent County, Delaware, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • BIRTH:
      Information on year of birth provided by Marilyn Goerndt Wright.
      Full date given in tombstone inscription recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," by Raymond Walter Dill, William Martin Dill, and Elizabeth Ann Bostick Dill, Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1989, page 542.
      Full date from abstract of Civilian Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918 by Raymond H. Banks, on the Internet at . Locality of birth also given.
      Full date also from Delaware certificate of delayed birth registration no. A-19986 (1960) in Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware. Parents named as Thomas Hurd and Rachel Kemp. Location of birth form this record. Certificate states that he was the sixth child of the marriage, with all 5 older siblings alive at the time of his birth.
      Full date confirmed in Social Security Death Index. SSN: 221-10-2051.
      Middle name from birth record of daughter Miriam Lorraine Hurd.
      Year of birth would be 1897-1898 according to age (12 years) given in 1910 U.S. Census for Delaware, E.D. 12, Sheet 6B, Line 71. State of birth given as Delaware. Enumerated as Oscar Hurd, with parents Thomas and Rachael Hurd.
      Year of birth would be 1896, according to age (23 years) in 1920 U.S. Census for Maryland, Caroline County, E.D. 1, Sheet 7A, Line 1. State of birth given as Delaware. Enumerated as Oscar Heard, in same household as mother, Rachel Heard, widow.
      Year of birth would be 1896-1897, according to age (33 years) in 1930 U.S. Census for Maryland, Caroline County, E.D. 6-5, Sheet 6B, Line 54. State of birth given as Maryland. Enumerated as Oscar Heard, with wife Elizabeth Heard and two daughters, Cora V. and Mary M.L. Heard.
      Roughly consistent with age (38 years) in 1940 U.S. Census for Delaware, Kent County, E.D. 1-24, Sheet 5B, Line 50. State of birth given as Delaware. Enumerated as Oscar Hurd, with wife Elizabeth and daughters Vivian and Lorraine.

      MARRIAGE:
      Tombstone inscription indicates that Oscar Hurd is the husband of Elizabeth Hurd.
      Information on spouse provided by Marilyn Goerndt Wright.
      Full date of 9 May 1925 and location of marriage of Oscar Hurd and Elizabeth Edwards in Caroline County Marriages, Liber J.K.S. No.3 (1911-1928), page 55, in Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Microfilm no. CR-9473-3.
      Wife named as Elizabeth Heard in 1930 U.S. Census. Census records gives ages at first marriage for the couple as 29 and 25 years, respectively, consistent with a marriage in 1925.

      OCCUPATION:
      Laborer, farm (at home) (1920 U.S. Census)
      Laborer, odd jobs (1930 U.S. Census)
      Farm laborer, agriculture (1940 U.S. Census)

      ADDRESS:
      Election District 1, Caroline County, Maryland (1920 U.S. Census)
      Living in Wilmington, Delaware in 1927, according to an item in the Denton Journal, 4 June 1927, page 7, column 3.
      Main Street, Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland (1930 U.S. Census)
      Address in 1934 was "near Felton," according to an item in the Denton Journal, 6 October 1934, page 5, column 8.
      Edwardsville Road, Sixth Representative District, Kent County, Delaware (1940 U.S. Census)
      Living in Greensboro in 1946, according to item in Denton Journal, 12 July 1946, page 6, column 2.
      Address at time of death was Greensboro, Maryland, according to Social Security Death Index.

      DEATH:
      Information provided by Marilyn Goerndt Wright.
      Full date of death confirmed from tombstone inscription, as recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," page 542.
      Full date also given in obituary of his wife, Eliabeth Edwards Hurd, published in the Harrington Journal, 17 March 1993.
      Month and year of death confirmed in Social Security Death Index. Locality of last residence from Social Security Death Index.

      BURIAL: Mount Olive Cemetery, Sandtown, Delaware.

      NEWS ACCOUNTS:
      Denton Journal, 4 June 1927, page 7, column 3, under "Greensboro":
      "Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hutson and children and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hurd and daughter, of Wilmington, spent
      the week-end with Mrs. Annie Edwards."

      Denton Journal, 9 July 1927, page 5, column 3, under "Greensboro":
      "Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hutson and daughters, Marie Alice and Annie, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hurd and daughter, Vivian, all of Wilmington, spent the weekend with Mrs. Annie Edwards."

      Denton Journal, 27 December 1941, page 5, column 8, under "Greensboro":
      "Those entertained at dinner on Sunday at the home of Mrs. Annie Edwards in honor of her 71st birthday were: Mrs. Marshall Hutson and daughter, Anne, of Claymont, Del.; Mrs. Harold Alexander and daughter, Eleanor, of Wilmington; Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Turner and son, Gene, of Goldsboro; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hurd and daughters Vivian and Loraine, of near Felton; Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Passwaters and children, Billy and Lois; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Caudill, Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Edwards and Mr. Will Edwards, of Greensboro."

      Denton Journal, 10 April 1943, page 5, column 7, under "Greensboro":
      "Mr. Oscar Hurd has moved his family from a farm near Sandtown, Del., to the James Greenlee house on Maple avenue."


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