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Ara H. (1) Woodhurst was born around 1887-88 to parents Earl George (1) Woodhurst and his wife Nellie B. Worst.
The World War I Civilian Draft Registration Database states that he was born in Midland County, Michigan on August 19th 1887.
The US 1900 Census finds him at age "11" living with his parents in Pennfield township, Calhoun County in Michigan. This describes him as born in Michigan in August 1888. His true year of birth therefore remains uncertain.
He married Anna M. (nee) Hodges around 1909.
The above-cited database states that he registered in Latah County, Idaho for military service in WWI.
The obituary of his son Ara H. (2) implies that the family was in Moscow township in Latah County around 1915 but moved a few years later to Spokane in Washington State.
The US 1910 census finds Ara H. (1) living with Anna and her unmarried sister Hallie Hodges in Burnham Street, Saginaw City in Michigan. He was employed as a house carpenter. The record implies that Anna was born in the late 1880s in Michigan of parents who were both born in New York.
The American Social Security Death Index appears to have a record for Anna, giving her birthdate as November 12th 1889 and the date of her death as March 1978. Her SSN was 363-68-0385 and had been issued in 1973 in Michigan. She had been residing in Jackson City, Michigan. The Michigan Death Index gives her date of death more precisely, as March 19th 1978.
Ara H. (1) may have remarried to a woman named "Vallie". The SSDI states that Vallie was born on April 3rd 1894 and died in December 1976. Her SSN, issued in Washington State (WA), was 533-01-1738 and she had last received benefit at 98118 Seattle, King County in that state; her last place of residence had been in Spokane, Spokane County, WA, where Ara H. (2) spent most of his life.
The birth of Earl L. was reported in an issue of The Idaho Post published on May 7th 1920 as follows:
Mrs. B. Hadsall [sic - Hadsell] has received word of the birth of a great grand son. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Woodhurst at Plaza, Wash., a 9-pound son. Mr. Woodhurst is the grand son of Mrs. Hadsall and son of Mrs. Frank Stevens of Moscow. He and his family formerly lived at Moscow.
Earl L. died in 1972. The SSDI states that he was born on May 1st 1920 and died on August 30th 1972, that his SSN (issued in WA) was 536-07-5025 and that he had been residing at 98102 Seattle in King County, WA, an address close to that where Vallie had resided before her death. He was buried in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Multnomah County in Oregon. The burial record describes him as having been a sergeant in the US Army, and states that he was buried on September 7th 1972 in plot M-0-1315.