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Earl George (1) Woodhurst was born at Faversham in 1861 [Birth Index: Faversham 2a 581, 1861 (Dec)] to parents Daniel Woodhurst and Priscilla Hales. The GRO index spells (or misspells) his first name as "Erle". Descendants cite his birthdate as October 4th 1861.
The 1871 Census finds him at age "9" with his parents living at 20, Springfield Road in Tunbridge, Kent. The schedule spells his first name as "Earle".
The 1881 Census finds him at age "19" living with his parents at 210, Shortlands Road, South Side in Sittingbourne, occupied as a general labourer. His name is again spelled as "Earle".
In 1883 he emigrated with his brother Albert Henry (1) to America, travelling first to Amsterdam and then sailing from there on the steamship SS Zaandam, arriving at New York on December 7th 1883. The ship's manifest names him as "Earle", aged "22" with no cited occupation and having one bag with him. It wrongly gives his sex as female.
He married Nellie B. Worst in Jackson, Jackson County in Michigan on February 1st 1886 [IGI: Batch M018620].
The US 1900 Census finds him at age 38 living with Nellie and three children in Pennfield township, Calhoun County in Michigan occupied as a farm labourer. It describes him as born in England in October 1861 and she as born in Michigan in November 1870. They had been married for 15 years. His immigration date is given incorrectly as 1881. He had filed his first papers for naturalization.
Descendants report that he died on March 11th 1901, and that Nellie remarried in Michigan in 1904 to Frank Stevens who already had three children by a previous marriage.
It appears that a few years later Nellie and Frank were living in or near Moscow, Idaho. One of their family gatherings was reported in an issue of The Idaho Post published on May 30th 1919 as follows:
Mrs. Frank Stevens gave a birthday dinner, Friday, May 23, in honor of her mother, Mrs. Ben Hadsell, and her grand daughter, Nellie Halverson, 13 guests being present. The out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ira Woodhurst of Pullman and Mrs. Ara Woodhurst and son, Ara Junior, of Plaza, Wash. The guests of honor received many pretty gifts, one being a beautiful bouquet of wild flowers form Harrison, Idaho, sent to Mrs. Hadsell by her niece, Mrs. Claude Burton.