Elizabeth B. Hurst

Elizabeth B. Hurst

Elizabeth B "Lizzie" Hurst Wood, 1878-1949

• Father: Thomas Jefferson Hurst b. 1854, d. 7 February 1933
• Mother: Katherine Kelley b. 1855, d. 1916

• Elizabeth B. Hurst was born on 1 July 1878 in Grimes County, Texas.
• She was known as Lizzie.
• Thomas Jefferson Hurst and Katherine Kelley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Elizabeth B. Hurst, Maude Lorraine Hurst, Kate Kelley Hurst and Katherine Laurany Banks. Also in the household were two male boarders.
• She married Solomon William Wood Jr., son of Solomon William Wood and Martha Clarana Reed, on 6 December 1896 in Grimes County, Texas.
• A photographic portrait was made of Mary Jane Wood and her sister-in-law Lizzie Hurst Wood, about 1897.
  

  Mary Jane Wood and her sister-in-law Lizzie Hurst Wood, about 1897
• Solomon William Wood and Martha Clarana Reed appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Elizabeth B. Hurst, Rush Brevard Wood, Henry Campbell Wood, Walter Warren Wood, Homer LeGrand Wood, Ella Lynn Wood and Solomon William Wood Jr. It is worthy of note that birth information for the entire family is extraordinarily inaccurate.
• Solomon William Wood Jr. and Elizabeth B. Hurst appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, enumerated next to William's widowed aunt Fannie W. Goree.. Other members of the household included Fannie Kate Wood, Green H. Wood and Minnie Elizabeth Wood.
• Solomon William Wood Jr. registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Grimes County, Texas, while living in Navasota with his wife Lizzie, and self-employed there as a farmer.
• Solomon William Wood Jr. and Elizabeth B. Hurst appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Minnie Elizabeth Wood.
• Solomon William Wood Jr. and Elizabeth B. Hurst appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Wichita County, Texas.
• On the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary celebration held during December 1946 in Navasota, William and Lizzie Hurst Wood were photographed with their brothers and sisters who attended the event.
• Her husband Solomon William Wood Jr. became a widower at her death.
• Elizabeth B. Hurst died on 19 September 1949 at age 71 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, at Brazos Valley Sanitarium . Her death was officially witnessed by Fannie Kate Wood.
• She was interred at Oakland Cemetery, Navasota, Grimes County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 11 Mar 2013

• Charts: Descendants of ABERCROMBIE Charles & Edwina Malinda "Dicey" Booth, Descendants of LeGRAND John & Margaret Chambers, Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine