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| | Goodspeed Biographies, Lauderdale Co, TN (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | George Whitfield Hurt, a farmer and mechanic of Lauderdale County, was born at Paducah, Ky., March 20, 1845, and was the sixth child of a family of eight sons and three daughters born to William W. and Sarah E. (Camburn) Hurt, and is of Irish descent. |
 | | George Johnston, one of the old and prominent citizens of Ripley, Tenn., and senior member of the firm of George Johnston and Co., furniture dealers, was a son of George and Jane (Thompson) Johnston, both parents being natives of Orange (now Alamance) County, N. The father was born in 1793, the mother in 1798. |
 | | Johnston, has been an earnest student of theology nearly all of his life; his ministerial work has always been a free offering, and he is the oldest resident minister in the county of any denomination, and whilst he is a pronounced Methodist in his religious views, he lives in charity with all denominations of Christians. |
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