Re: Sandusky genealogy
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Re: Sandusky genealogy
Marie E. Davis 2/17/99
Mrs. Davis-McQueen:
Re: Emanuel Sandusky, Jr.
My name is Dallas Hurt and I am writing in response to some messages in the Genealogy Forum ( Sandusky Genealogy) dated Feb 17, 1999 which I have just seen.I am the grandson of Matthew Franklin Hurt and Lola Ethel Dobbs referred to in the message and thusly, the gr. gr. grandson ofEmanuel Sandusky and his second wife Mary Funderburk.As these are my direct ancestors, I’m writing to fill in some information and correct some name spellings, etc.Actually I am a “double” gr. gr. grandson since my father was descendant of Mary Evelyn Sandusky Hurt m. Henry Hurt and my mother is descendant of Matilda Via 2nd m. John L. Smith.
Emanuel Sandusky, Jr. was one of the first settlers of the Mt. Pisgah area of Wayne County, Ky. arriving about 1805-1807 when the area was first opened to settlement after the signing of the Tellico Cherokee Treaty concession of that area in 1805.Wayne County was organized as a county in 1800, but the Cherokee still retained and owned the southern part of the county until they ceded it by treaty in 1805.He was probably about twenty one yrs old when he arrived and he first married Mary Litterell and had 12 children that lived beyond infancy.As you say, his second marriage was to Mary Funderburk,my gr. gr. grandmother with whom he had an additional 7 children who lived; those you named and one other, Millard Filmore Sandusky.
Emanuel acquired up to 7 farms which he distributed to his children.As mentioned, he had several sons, some fought in the Confederate Army and some in the Union.After his daughter, Emily Jane was divorced from her 1st husband, Joel Scott, she and her 2nd husband,Jim Phipps, were given 100 acres near the “Home Farm”.I, with my brother and sisters, own that farm today.Her children John and Alice moved to Iowa after the Civil War.
I noticed that Mary Sloane Funderburk took exception to the idea that Mary Funderburk was part Cherokee.She evidently didn’t know that Emanuel had married two different Marys and had two separate families.My grandfather, Matthew F. Hurt, Sr. was Mary Funderburk’s grandson and he was born in April 1878, one year after Mary Funderburk died.He told me that she was ½ Cherokee and all the family was told that.
I know that these family histories get a lot of “typos” in them as they are compiled and circulated.This is just to set the record straight………
Correction:William Harrison Hurt’s 2nd wife was Aley ( long “A” pronounced as in Haley) Bridgeman Phipps, not Alice Phillips as mentioned.She was first married to James Phipps when she was about 14 and he was about 60.She could not read nor write.She had no children with either Jim Phipps or W. Harrison Hurt.
Correction:William Harrison Hurt’s sister who married Louis Albert Bell was (Elmira), not Emirea.
Correction:Leroy H. Smith’s middle name was Houston, not Hyston.
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Re: Sandusky genealogy
Marie Davis 8/28/03