Thomas Edgar Woodhurst


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Brief biography

Thomas Edgar Woodhurst was born at Abbeville, SC on July 9th 1892 to parents Andrew Kennedy Woodhurst and his wife Martha Ann Fortescue.

The US 1900 Census finds him living with his parents in Abbeville township. His birthdate is given as July 1892.

The US 1910 Census finds him at age 17 still living with his parents in Abbeville.

He married Elizabeth Smith. An unattributed IGI ancestral file claims that they married around 1915 and that she was born around 1897. She probably had a middle name whose familiar form was "Kate".

The US 1930 Census finds him living with his wife and the first two children listed below in Brookes Mill Road in Abbeville township. He was working as a farmer. The census record names his wife as "Kate".

He died at Abbeville in 1959, and his wife in 1978; both were buried there at the Sharon United Methodist Church Cemetery [Bratcher]. In the latter source she is named "Elizabeth S. Woodhurst", the "S" presumably denoting Smith, and her birthyear is cited as 1897.

His children by Elizabeth ("Kate"?) Smith

  1. Thomas W. Woodhurst - born 1915 in SC
  2. Elizabeth Catherine Woodhurst
  3. Andrew Allen Woodhurst - born perhaps 1932 in SC
  4. and possibly others ...

According to the American Social Security Death Index Thomas W. was born on August 15th 1915 and died in Florida in August 1975; his SSN was 577-50-8250 and was issued in DC in 1953. He is commemorated in the Forrest Lawn Memory Cemetery in Abbeville, SC [Bratcher] and was possibly interred there.

Uncorroborated IGI ancestral files state that Andrew Allen was born in 1932 and died in that same year.