WILLIAM HURST FAMILY

HURST, GREENROYD, PEARSON, KERSHAW, MCNAIR, WILLENMYER, KIRKPATRICK

Posted By: Margery G. Jones (email)
Date: 11/1/2001 at 09:12:53

FROM THE "HISTORY OF WAPELLO CO., IOWA BY CAPT. S.B. EVANS, PUB 1901".

WILLIAM HIRST, a highly respected farmer of Richland Township, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1819 and is a son of THOMAS and PHOEBE (GREENROYD) HIRST.

THOMAS HIRST, was born in Yorkshire England in 1777, and was a son of JOHN and MARY (PEARSON) HIRST, both natives of England. He was a weaver by trade, but later in life engaged in farming, which he followed until his death in 1868. His union with PHOEBE GREENROYD, who was born in Yorkshire, England, resulted in the birth of the following children: JOHN; ANN; WILLIAM; JOSEPH; JAMES; BENJAMIN; MARY; SARAH; ALLICE; LOUISA; and GEORGE. JAMES HIRST came to the United states and located in Cincinnati, Ohio where he lived until his death in 1897. He was a machinist, and was the inventor of the HIRST MOTOR, of which he was also the manufacturer.

WILLIAM HIRST. came to the United States in 1847, at the age of twenty-four years, and landed at the port of New York. He then located in Ohio and lived there until 1850 when he came west to Iowa, locating in Burlington, Iowa. Up to that time his work had been that of a shoemaker. He moved to Wapello County, Iowa in 1851 and was located at Eddyville, Iowa until the fall of that year when he settled on his farm in section 21, Richland township, where he now owns 160 acres of valuable land. He lived on this place until 1892, when he moved with his wife to his present home in Kirkville, Iowa where he lives a retired life, having rented his farm.

MR HIRST was first married to ELIZA KERSHAW, who died in 1861, having given birh to the following children: SARAH A; THOMAS, a farmer in Richland township; JAMES, a blacksmith at Ottumwa; MARTHA, wife of THOMAS KIRKPATRICK; LINCOIN, a blacksmith;
and WILLIAM, deceased.
MR HIRST married a second time, wedding ELIZABETH J McNAIR, who was born in Knox County, Ohio in 1838, and they have on child: ROSELLA; who married DAVID WILLENMYER, a farmer of Richland township.