Robert Bloom Hurd

1856 - 1918  (61 years)

• Name	Robert Bloom Hurd
  Born	13 Jul 1856	Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Apr 1918	Delaware
  Buried	Milford, Kent County, Delaware
  Person ID	I5342	Simon and Related Families | Descendants of Robert B. Hurd (1856-1918)
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Harmon Herd,   b. 28 Mar 1830, Saxony, Germany ,   d. 17 Feb 1892, Buck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Ruth Wildrick,   b. 2 Jan 1835, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Snyder,   b. Oct 1857, Stoddardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1874	Pennsylvania
  Children	1. Rachel Estella Hurd,   b. 6 Oct 1878, Stoddardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 26 Oct 1943, Milford, Sussex County, Delaware  (Age 65 years)   2. William B. Hurd,   b. 13 Oct 1883, Stoddardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 9 Mar 1931, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware  (Age 47 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2015
  Family ID	F1832	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Buried - - Milford, Kent County, Delaware  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: Full date 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 1215. Identified as the son of Harmon Herd, a German immigrant, and Ruth Wildrick by Jennie Arent, a descendant of Robert B. Hurd's younger brother William, in a posting on the Hurd forum on genforum.genealogy.com. In a subsequent personal communication to Robert M. Simon on 19 October 2009, she indicated that the middle initial of "B." stood for Bloom. Consistent with age (23 years) in 1880 U.S. Census for Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, page 332A, line 7. State of birth given as Pennsylvania, and record states that his father was born in "Germania" and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. Enumerated as Robert B. Herd, with wife Lucy and daughter Rachel. This record establishes that this Hurd family is unrelated to all others in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Month and year of birth given as July 1856 in 1900 U.S. Census for Pennsylvania, Wyoming County, E.D. 139, Sheet 5A, Line 41. State of birth given as Pennsylvania, with father born in Germany and mother born in Pennsylvania. Enumerated as Robert B. Herd, with wife Lucy, daughter Rachel, son William B., and numerous boarders, including several Snyder-surnamed ones. MARRIAGE: Tombstone indicates that Robert B. Hurd is the husband of Lucy Snyder Hurd. Supported by 1880 and 1900 U.S. Census records. 1900 U.S. Census states that they had been married for 26 years, indicating a marriage year about 1874. Supported also by the death certificates of his children William B. Hurd and Rachel E. Hurd, which both name Robert B. Hurd and Lucy Snyder as spouses. OCCUPATION: Farmer (1880 U.S. Census) Boarding house keeper (1900 U.S. Census) ADDRESS: Buck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (1880 U.S. Census) Forkston Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania (1900 U.S. Census) DEATH: Full date from tombstone inscription recorded in "Souls in Heaven, Names in Stone: Kent County, Delaware Cemetery Records," page 1215. BURIAL: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Addition 1, Lot 1153, Milford, Delaware.