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Walter (1) Woodhurst was born at Murston near Sittingbourne in 1877 [Birth Index: Milton 2a 828, 1877 (Dec)] of parents Daniel Woodhurst and Priscilla Hales. Descendants report that he was born on October 1st 1877.
In 1884 he emigrated with his mother and siblings to America, sailing from Liverpool on the City of Montreal and arriving at Michigan on July 26th 1884.
The US 1900 Census finds him at age 23 living in the household of a farm labourer Charles E. Curtis in Concord township, Jackson County in Michigan. He was likewise a farm labourer, was still single and classed as an alien. The record wrongly states that he immigrated in "1890".
He first married Grace Curtis. The US 1920 Census finds them living with their three children in Pulaski township, Jackson County, where Walter (1) was working as a farm labourer. The record states that he immigrated in "1889" (but actually 1884) and was naturalized in 1906.
Descendants report the following: Grace was the daughter of Charles E. Curtis and was killed during a storm when a lightning bolt passed down the line of a telephone she happened to be holding at the time; in 1934 Walter (1) remarried in Michigan to Lucille Chase, the daughter of Leslie Chase and his wife Mary Corlew, and produced several more children as listed below; Walter (1) died at Concord, Michigan on December 13th 1953; Lucille later remarried, to a man whose surname was Corlew - the same as her mother's maiden name; she died in February 1999.