October 4, 1904 they drove over to Baird in a two horse buggy and said the words that kept them married for fifty one years.  In 1912 W. C. and Nannie Lee, a son and a daughter moved to Coleman County, sorrowful to leave their first born, William Vernon, in the Cottonwood Cemetery (born in 1905 and died shortly after).  The W. C. Hurst family moved to a farm about five miles from Goubdbusk in the Hardin school district, owned by Gordon and Holcomb.  After five years of farming in this area they moved to the Wyman Wilson farm, located about five miles northwest of Coleman just a short distance off the Abilene highway from the Anderson school house where three of the children would be going in the years, 1917, 1918 and 1919.  The family worked and loved this fertile black land farm for seventeen years.  The Hurst children and grandchildren are as follows:

Clarence Elmo born March 19, 1907 in Cottonwood, attended school at Hardin and Anderson and married Bessie Eleanor, daughter of J. R. and Susie Wyman Fine, November 27, 1927.  Four sons were born to them: Charles Douglas 1929, Earl Eugene 1931, Lewis Edward, 1934 and Clifford Gordon in 1936.  C. E. farmed some but did oil field work for many years.  He died in April of 1959, buried in Coleman cemetery.

Ina Jewel born August 12, 1911 in Cottonwood, attended school at Anderson, graduating from Coleman High in 1929, attended Baylor Belton Womans College, and taught two years at Anderson and two at White Chapel.  She married L. B. Chapman December 27, 1933 (see L.B. Chapman).  L.B. and Jewel were the parents of one daughter, Linda Kay who lived only a short time, and was buried in White Chapel Cemetery February 24, 1941.  They later reared a nephew Eugene Hurst.  He finished Coleman High School in 1950.  Served in the Korean War, now lives in Amarillo with his wife and two sons, Gene and Lou.

Gordon Lee born April 9, 1913 in Gouldbusk, attended school at Anderson, graduated from Coleman in 1932, had one year of college at Sul Ross, and got his barber training in San Antonio.  He married first Mary E., daughter of Aaron and Lillie Loyd Bozeman.  They were parents of one son Wesley Gail, killed in a car wreck in New Mexico at thirty years of age, and the father of four small sons.  Gordon’s second marriage was to Nadine Hemphill of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.  Four sons were born to them, Freddy Lee, Gamy, Nick and Mike.

James Lloyd, born February 15, 1916 at Gouldbusk, attended school at Anderson and graduated from Coleman in 1934, married Bessie Ellen Short in 1940 at Coleman.  They had two children, James Lloyd of Victoria and Nickie (Hallmark) of Austin.  Lloyd was with Rockwell Brothers several years in Coleman.

Kay C. was born January 5, 1921 in the Anderson Community, attended school at Anderson, Silver Valley and Coleman.  He joined the army at an early age and spent thirty years or more in the service.  In 1946 he married Betty Jean Thomas.  Five children were born to them, Ronnie Kay died in infancy, buried in Coleman Cemetery, Gary, Larry, Jimmy and a daughter Cathy Hime of Bangs (where Kay C. also lives).

Dorothy Lee born July 29, 1925 attended school at Anderson, Silver Valley, and Centennial, her first marriage was to Roy Lee Calk in 1943, they had two children, Tommy Lee and Barbara Jean.  Her second marriage was to D. W. Linch in Tucson, Arizona, they have one daughter, Toyna.

Donald C. was born September 29, 1929 in the Anderson Community, attended school in Silver Valley and Coleman; Don worked for Rockwell Lumber Company in Coleman, also in Midland.  In 1949 Don married Barbara Carroll.

In 1934 W. C. and Nannie L, with three children left in the family, made a move to the Silver Valley area, the Lorena Brown farm near the Mont View Cemetery.  After a few years here W. C. found that farming was not what it had been and he started working in town.  Kay went to the army, but Nannie L. was determined to say with her country life and rented Mrs. Pebble Purcells small farm for a while, then on to the L. H. Smith place near Old Silver Valley where she was happy with her chickens, cows and a lovely garden but after a spell of pneumonia she was forced to move to town, settled on Ripley where she grew vegetables, fruit and flowers of all kind.  W. C. never gave up his working ways or his walking five to ten miles every day, but he did give up some things, when seventy seven years of age he was saved, baptized into the Baptist church and spent five years telling how great it was to be a Christian.  In November of 1955 in his home one evening as he laughed and talked with two neighbor men he was struck with a heart attack.  He died on Saturday evening, November 19, 1955, buried in Coleman Cemetery.  Nannie Lee had a stroke in her home, September 1957 and spent ten years in a daughter’s home, then two years in Holiday Hill Nursing Home.  On April 17, 1970 she went to a long awaited rest, buried in Coleman Cemetery.