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Charles H. Hurlbut

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Charles H. Hurlbut

Birth
Niagara County, New York, USA
Death
11 Dec 1924 (aged 72)
Agnew, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Valparaiso, Saunders County, Nebraska, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.076225, Longitude: -96.8469333
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Charles H. Hurlbut was the son of Aeneas and Lucretia Hurlbut. As a young boy, he moved with his family from Newfane, New York to Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan. He followed his father into farming. He was married to Sarah Jane Weaver Odren on 22 Dec 1878 at Ovid, Branch County, Michigan by Charles R. Whitehead (JP). Charles and Sarah had 4 children: daughter Allie was born in 1880, twin girls Myrtle (Mertie) and Gertrude (Gertie) were born in 1882, and son Albert was born in 1888. The girls were born in Michigan, and son Bert was born in Nebraska.

Charles was the brother of prominent Lincoln clothing merchant, Aeneas Hurlbut (Jr.). His brother Edward Hurlbut founded and was editor of the Aurora (Nebraska) Sun newspaper. Other siblings were sisters Sarah Hurlbut Fanning, Alice Hurlbut Gorball Delgado, and brother George Hurlbut. Charles also had an older half-brother, Henry Clay Hurlbut, who was a Wesleyan Methodist minister in Michigan.

From the Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, 12 December 1924:
"Charles Hurlbut, seventy-two, died at the home of his son Albert, six miles west of Agnew, on Thursday. The body will be held at Castle, Roper & Matthews' until Sunday when it will be taken to Valpariso (sic) for funeral services at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the Valpariso cemetery. He is survived by three daughters besides the son; Mrs Gertrude Blodgett of Tulsa, Okla., Mrs. Clarence Lynch(sic) and Mrs. G. W. Hyatt of Valpariso. "
Charles H. Hurlbut was the son of Aeneas and Lucretia Hurlbut. As a young boy, he moved with his family from Newfane, New York to Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan. He followed his father into farming. He was married to Sarah Jane Weaver Odren on 22 Dec 1878 at Ovid, Branch County, Michigan by Charles R. Whitehead (JP). Charles and Sarah had 4 children: daughter Allie was born in 1880, twin girls Myrtle (Mertie) and Gertrude (Gertie) were born in 1882, and son Albert was born in 1888. The girls were born in Michigan, and son Bert was born in Nebraska.

Charles was the brother of prominent Lincoln clothing merchant, Aeneas Hurlbut (Jr.). His brother Edward Hurlbut founded and was editor of the Aurora (Nebraska) Sun newspaper. Other siblings were sisters Sarah Hurlbut Fanning, Alice Hurlbut Gorball Delgado, and brother George Hurlbut. Charles also had an older half-brother, Henry Clay Hurlbut, who was a Wesleyan Methodist minister in Michigan.

From the Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News, 12 December 1924:
"Charles Hurlbut, seventy-two, died at the home of his son Albert, six miles west of Agnew, on Thursday. The body will be held at Castle, Roper & Matthews' until Sunday when it will be taken to Valpariso (sic) for funeral services at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the Valpariso cemetery. He is survived by three daughters besides the son; Mrs Gertrude Blodgett of Tulsa, Okla., Mrs. Clarence Lynch(sic) and Mrs. G. W. Hyatt of Valpariso. "


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