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Descendants of Isaiah Sr Hurley

43. Eleven⁴ Hurley (John³, Isaiah Jr², Isaiah Sr¹) was born Abt. 1851 in parks co.,in., and died Unknown. He married (1) Rachel L Green October 06, 1867 in greene co.,ia., daughter of Jesse Greene and Ruth. She was born Abt. 1853 in indiana, and died Abt. 1876 in iowa. He married (2) Cinderella Belle Holston November 09, 1878 in boone co., Iowa, daughter of William Holston and Sarah Ward. She was born July 28, 1859 in sweed point,boone co.,ia., and died October 13, 1952 in rathdrum,kootenai co.,id..

Notes for Eleven Hurley:

Date: 2/9/99 11:05:59 AM Central Standard Time 
From: windex@hubwest.com (Robert & Corri Johnson) 
Reply-to: windex@hubwest.com 
To: dechpmn@aol.com 
 
>
Mr. Chapman- 
 I am sending along my gedcom. Like I said before, it is not very big on 
this line. This has been a dead end line for us for many years. My 
GGrandfather was named Stacy Nelson. His biological father was Eleven 
Hurley, son of John Hurley, son of Isaiah Hurley. 
 Eleven married Cinderella Belle Holston in Boone Co. Iowa. Stacy was born 
in Greene Co. Iowa a few years later. When Stacy was 7 months old, Eleven 
took his wife and son and started south looking for work. He left them with 
her parents in Missouri and went to look for work. They never saw or heard 
from him again. Years later Cinderella and her son moved to Idaho and she 
married Nels Nelson. Stacy then took on the Nelson name. 
 My main sources of information are a life history that Cinderella wrote 
when she was in her 80's and Stacy's Book of Remembrance ( the LDS 
equilvelant of a family bible). Also, Eleven's brothers, Silas and Isaiah 
married Cinderella's sisters, Nancy and Sarah. I think that that is where 
Stacy must have gotten his Hurley info. (from one of his aunts). 
 I hope that this helps in some way. I sure appreciate you working with me. 
I can tell how many hours you have put into this and I know it would be 
easy not to share it. Thank you so much for all your help. If I can be of 
any more help to you, please let me know. 
 Corri Johnson

 Mr. Chapman- 
 Thank you. It worked that time. How did you find my address? You have my 
Hurley line in you info. It has been a dead end line for many years. I am 
through Eleven Hurley m. Cinderella Belle Holston. They had one son, Stacy. 
Eleven left his wife and son when the baby was only 5 months old and they 
never saw him again. Stacy is my ggrandfather. When he died, he left a book 
of remembrance that is just full of names and relationships but he had no 
dates and very few places. Since he never knew his dad he must have gotten 
the information from one of his Hurley uncles that married his mothers 
sisters. I do have more information on Cinderella Holston Hurley and her 
son. I also have some information on Isaiah, son of John and Silas, son of 
John. No dates, just names. If you would be happy to share them. 
 I hope you don't think I'm rude but I was wondering if You could share 
with me your main sources of information for the family of John Harmon.b. 
abt 1806 in TN. I would sure appreciate it. Also, do you care if we add 
this info. to our family file? Thanks, Corri Johnson 

 
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/h/a/David-E-Chapman/index.html 

 I don't know if you are interested in this or not but I am enclosing a 
letter that I typed from a letter written by Sarah Holston to her daughter 
Cinderella Belle Hurley Nelson in 1898. I am enclosing it because it 
contains a littlt bit of info. about where some of my Hurley's were in 
1898. If you have no interest in it, then just delete it. 
 
John Hurley b. abt. 1806 in Tenn had 3 sons that all married the daughters 
of William Holston. 
Nancy Ellen Holston m. Silas Hurley on 06 Apr 1871 
Sarah Francis Holston m. Isaiah Hurley on 06 Apr 1871 
Both were married at the William Holston residence in Boone Co. IA 
Cinderella Belle m. Eleven Hurley on 09 Nov. 1878 in Boone Co. IA 
 
 According to a life history that we have written by Cinderella Belle 
around age 87, "This place was where my brothers in law and cousins ___ 
when comming back from California. those were the Hurley brothers, took a 
contract of cutting off teh timber on a section of land. This was called 
Section 10, twelve miles from Boonsbury, Iowa." 
 
 I don't know if this means anything to you or not but I thought I would 
share it just in case it could help.

More About Eleven Hurley:
Burial: Unknown, hull cem.boone co.,ia.?

Marriage Notes for Eleven Hurley and Rachel Green:
on affidavit of silas hurley,wedding at jessie greene's

Notes for Cinderella Belle Holston:
The Life History of Cinderella Belle Holston

by Cinderella Belle Holston

I was born July 28, 1859 in Boon Co., Iowa, 12 miles from the town of Boon and 40 miles from the town of Des Moines. Our Post Office was in a little village 3 miles away.

When I was 10 years old my mother and I took a trip to Indiana to visit______ and fathers brothers in Clay Co. We were close to Terre Haute, 10 miles from where we wanted to visit so we had to ride on a double box wagon of corn. It took some time to get there. I don’t remember how we got back to our train but we only stayed two weeks. That was mothers first visit after moving to Iowa. I surely enjoyed the trip. That was my first ride on the train.

How well I remember when I was some younger of building play houses under the shade of the cherry trees. I didn’t have nice things to put in them either. My shelves consisted of broken dishes that Mother had discarded. I had no one to play with as my sisters were so much older than I. Of course I was the youngest of 10 children.

I used to enjoy myself down in Fathers’ woods pasture in the spring watching the little birds build their nests and hunt along the old rail fence for the Robins nest to count their eggs. They were so pretty and blue and the old mother bird .

Then in the fall when the nuts were ripe, mother and I would go gather hazel nuts and hickory nuts for winter. After a strong wind, the ground would be covered with the nice nuts. Father’s farm was next to the timber and our cows would feed there in the evening when father had finished his farm work for the day.

He would say to me, "You can come with me to hunt the cows in the woods." I was glad for he would take his little gun and shoot squirrels. Then he would string them on a stick for me to carry home. Some evenings we got 4 or 5, so fat for they fed on the nuts. Those squirrels were called gray squirrels and so good to eat. Mother would cook them so many different ways.

We lived a mile or so from the Des Moines River and there were heavy timbers on either side the road from the high way. Just a half mile from our house East run across the river to the high way on the opposite side. So in the long days in summer mother used to take us girls down to the river when the water was low to gather shells. It sure was a treat.

At one time I remember the water was so low we could walk across on the rocks for there weren’t such a thing as bridge. You would forge the river.

Sometimes mother would take us girls over to a neighbors on the other side and we thought it was fun to wade the river and sometimes they would take us to see mother’s sister, Aunt Hannah Toliver. About 4 or 5 miles on the west side and make a visit for the day. Then back home at night. It was quite a treat. We liked to go there for she was such a good old lady and everyone just loved her for miles around. And there were lots of Indians but were civil and were clever and in the summer they used to come camp on the river to fish and hunt. Then it was fun for us to go visit them and see how they lived and see the little babies being carried on their mother’s back. I remember one time when we were at the camp there was a white man put a dime on a tree and told a boy , I suppose, 10 years old, to stand about 25 feet away, and shoot and hit the money, he could have it. He hit it the first time. It was a bow and arrow he shot it with.

The old squaws used to come up quite often to our house for something to eat but the more she gave them the oftener they would come.

Now back home to do our chores for there was always lots for all to do on he farm and my job was to feed the chickens and hunt the eggs. Something I always liked to do. When I was about 11 years old my two sisters that was at home, got married in the spring of April and left me with no companions. It was sure lonely.

Just I and mother, of course father, but he was always in the fields for there were no boys to help him. Some days when mother would get her work done up, she would take up her knitting, we would go to one of the neighbors for a short visit, then back home and then it would be the same old things over, feed chickens and hunt eggs.

When I was in my early teens Father lost part of his land by the River Co. it was called then, and that discouraged him, so he sold the rest of his farm and we all moved to Northern California. There were six families of us but they were all dissatisfied _______

and in about 3 months we all back where we started from. Then of course, dead broke flat.

Well that ended my school days. Still in my early teens at time and when I was much younger people did not spend Christmas like they do now days. Didn’t exchange Christmas card like they do now and presents. We kids didn’t get much. I remember my oldest sister used to come to fathers and bring her family for she had 5, 4 boys. That night when she thought we were all asleep, she would put a few pieces of candy and some nuts that we had gathered ourselves, in our stockings but it was a sure treat to us for we did not know any better. Sometimes the candy would be stick candy broken in small pieces and that was all we kids got for Christmas. Just think.

January 15, 1948

When I was between 15 & 16 mother let me go to work for a neighbor woman about 3 miles from home. I got $1.50 a week, thought that I was rich. This was last of winter. Then when work began on the farm I got a quarter more. I would get to go home every two weeks. Well, I got tired of this, so got a neighbor girl to take my place and I went home in the timber where father and mother lived in a little log hut about 16 x 20. There we lived on place 5 or 6 years with nothing to do to earn a cent. How we lived, I do not know. This place was where my brothers in law and cousin ______ when coming back from California. Those were the Hurley brothers, took a contract of cutting off the timber on a section of land. This was called Section 10, twelve miles from Boonsbury, Iowa. It was sure hard luck chop cordwood and haul 12 miles and only get $2.50 a cord. That would get a sack of flour and a pound of coffee and maybe some other little thing. There we lived several years. I’d say 5 or 6 years, a lonely place, in thick woods.

Then father and mother moved to Mo., Nodaway Co. At that time I was married and lived on a little place close to the Section 10. For 2 years, then we moved to Green Co. Iowa.

There we lived and raised one crop. There my first baby was born, in a little house, one room about 16 X 20. Just room for a bed and table and cook stove and a chair or two.

That spring I walked half a mile and did washing for a neighbor women for a dozen hens and raised a few fryers. I had nothing to do with or nothing to do but still I was satisfied and content, thinking the day would come when we would have more.

Then when my baby came I had nothing to provide for him. No clothes, just a change, just imagine, but still he was dear to me.

That summer was hard times. Many, many a meal, I had nothing to sit down to but a plate of corn bread and a little butter and probably some skimmed milk from the neighbors.

We had one little cow which I managed to make a little butter from once a day. That’s how we lived that summer. Then that fall we sold the crop in the field and started to move to Kansas but instead landed in Missouri, a few miles below Marshall. There we unloaded our wagon for a week or 10 days. Then loaded up again to go I didn’t know where. Those stops he would work and get a little to go on a little farther.

When we would camp at night we managed to get by a creek where I could wash for the baby, for I had such few clothes for him.

We landed a mile from Pickering, Missouri. There we found a little house. We stayed until last of December. Then I was taken to one of my sisters to stay until Father came after me to stay there while he went to hunt work. Then my baby was only 5 months old. Well, I stayed and waited and waited for word until at last ______ had ______ I got one letter but say come but that was the last I ever got until I heard through others he had gone up in Iowa. So there I was left to the mercy of my folks and care for my baby as best I could. No help from him at all. Well, I did little jobs at home and around to close neighbors. How I lived then I don’t know how, but I got through some how.

I lived with my father and mother on their little 40 acre farm until my baby was about 7 years old and my sister Francis Hurley sent me money to come west and as I had another sister live close I thought best for me to come, so she could help me. Well, we landed in Athol, Idaho where my sister kept a boarding tent for a contractor, John H. Slane and in June the next I was married to Nels Nelson. Then we went up into the woods to a tie camp camp. Stayed there until fall then we bought a homestead on Pend Oreille Lake. Lived there a few years. Sold that and moved below Spokane. Sold our place to Peter Rasmusman and the next February, Joe L Nelson was born on the 7 at Spangel Washington. Two years later we moved up to Rathdrum Idaho where we bought another place. Lived on it about 9 or 10 years then sold and moved closer town.

This the 2nd of September, Virginia Nelson was married to Dic Kinman. Went for honeymoon somewhere (1950).

Sept. 2, 1950

Virginia Nelson was married to Dic Kinman, went for honey moon somewhere. This Sept. 8 1950, tomorrow night, Arlene Nelson will be married just one week from her sister’s, Saturday last,
Saturday 9.

I am staying this week with Mr. Blockman in Spokane, will go back to the hospital soon. Hope not to stay long.

Thursday, March 15th

Van E. Nelson passed away this morning peacefully at Portland where they lived. Oregon 1951. He leaves his wife and one son to mourn his loss and 3 brothers and a host of friends.

March 25, 1951

Easter Sunday, a nice sunny day. Ill as I am, still in the hospital. 15 months in all.

March 25, 1951

Easter Sunday, Bernard and Louise came over and took me our for a ride up the river. Almost to Saint Maries. It was a nice ride, saw a deer but not very close.

Saturday, April 28, 1951

Dick McAgintly , 107th birthday. Sunday morning the 29th he passed away but spent his birthday _____. Just went to sleep.

(Transcribed from original journal by Corri Peterson Johnson, a great, great, great, granddaughter. Original is in the possession of Melvin Peterson, Box 140, Littlefield, arizona 86432


Children of Eleven Hurley and Rachel Green are:

	150	i.		Jesse⁵ Hurley, born Abt. 1871; died Unknown.
+	151	ii.		Frederick Marion Hurley, born June 06, 1875 in greene co.,ia.; died April 10, 1909 in boone co.,ia..

Child of Eleven Hurley and Cinderella Holston is:

152

Stacy⁵ Hurley, born August 05, 1880 in Scranton,greene co.,ia.[adopted as stacy nelson]; died August 05, 1956 in richfield,sevier co.,ut..

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