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Author: lmitch1967
Surnames: HURTT, MEEKER, LYNCH
Classification: queries
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Abel L. Hurtt married 2 Mary Meeker Lynch IN 1868 and they lived in Monticello. There is
a record for him marrying a Jane Morecraft, but that is a transcription error, it was his
brother. Their children were Abel Zedder/Zadock Hurrt, May Hurtt, Pearl Hurtt, Frank
Hurtt, and an infant that only briefly survived. Mary died shortly after this childbirth,
June 5, 1884. Abel had a musical group called the Hurtt Family Quartette which toured
around Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and I don't know where else. He also had a family
by his first marriage to Lucy Ellen Davidson in Miami County, Indiana in 1857, with
children Lulu, Catherine and Olive. They were married, divorced, remarried, and divorced.
The last trace of Abel to date is found in 1898 in Chicago, but he does not show up in
Illinois Death records. I'm wondering if he was buried next to Mary, wherever she was
buried, likely around Monticello since the family lived there. His son Frank lived and
died in Peoria, IL, a!
nd his son Abel Zedder Hurtt wound up in Wyoming and is buried in Kansas. These two boys
had no children. I don't know much about the daughters of Mary and Abel. I am
especially interested in finding when Abel L. Hurrt died and where he is buried. It could
well be that he is buried with Mary, wherever that is. Mary also had a daughter named
Mary Lynch when she married Abel. I would be happy to share information.
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