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Thurston Woodhurst was born in December 1897 in Nebraska to parents William Henry Clay Woodhurst and his second wife Martha ("Mattie") Drusilla Donehower.
The US 1900 Census finds him at age 2 living with his parents at 2nd Street, North Platte Township, Lincoln County in Nebraska.
The biography of his father, published in 1920, states that Thurston had been working in a shoe store in North Platte.
The US 1920 Census finds him at age 22, still single and lodging with his mother Mattie in North Platte City in the household of a John Day.
On April 20th 1921 he married at North Platte to Hazel Anna Smith. The witnesses were his brother Sherwood and Helen Smith who was perhaps Anna's sister. The marriage was officiated by Patrick McDaid, the Minister of St. Patrick's Church. Their affidavit for a marriage license was made on April 19th and was sworn before Thurston's father in the latter's capacity as County Judge. It gives Thurston's age as 23 and Hazel's as 24.
Hazel was born on June 18th 1896 to parents Jacob I. Smith (born in Illinois) and his wife Anna J. (nee) Nolan (born in Wisconsin).
The US 1930 Census finds him at Kearney, Buffalo County in Nebraska in the household of his uncle Clarence Tollefsen, husband of Mattie's sister Mabel - the same relations with whom his brother Sherwood had been staying at the time of the census ten years earlier. Meanwhile, Hazel and her two children were at North Platte in her parents' household. Both Thurston and Hazel were described as married, so had apparently not divorced - their separation may have been only a temporary arrangement during the census. The full records have not yet been extracted.
Hazel died in January 1963. The American Social Security Death Index gives her SSN (issued in Nebraska before 1951) as 506-10-4313 and states that she had been residing in Colorado.
Nothing more is currently known of Thurston.
Martha A. was born in Nebraska around 1922.