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Anna Hurst

Female 1847 - 1916  (69 years)


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  • Name Anna Hurst  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 26 May 1847  Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4] 
    Gender Female 
    Informant -- Death Certificate Jun 1916  Fillmore, Andrew County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 12 Jun 1916  Nodaway Twp., Holt County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4] 
    Cause: mitral regurgitation 
    Burial 13 Jun 1916  Nodaway Cemetery, Holt County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4] 
    Obituary 16 Jun 1916  Oregon, Holt County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    The Holt County Sentinel 
    • Death of Mrs. Anna Forney

      Mrs. Anna Forney (nee) Hurst, wife of Mr. Philip Forney, living in Nodaway township, Holt county, Mo., was born at Mt. Eaton, Wayne county, Ohio, May 26, 1847, and died Monday, June 12, 1916, aged 69 years and 17 days, death being due to a leakage of the heart. 

      Mrs. Forney came to Holt county in 1851 with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Miser, by whom she was raised, her own mother dying when she was but three weeks old. 

      She was converted when she was 16 years old, at a meeting being held by Rev. Henry Seamiller, Presiding Elder of the United Brethren church, in the old Woods school house, east of Oregon.  She has always lived a consistent christian life, and as long as her health permitted she attended regularly the services of the church she loved so well.  Her last attendance was on Easter Sunday, this year. 

      She was united in marriage on the 26th of January, 1865, to Mr. Philip Forney, and to this union there has been given three boys and two girls, one boy and one girl dying in infancy, two sons, Wm. And Edward O. Forney, and a daughter, Mrs. Ella Kneale, survive their mother, and all have families of their own and live on farms nearby.  Mr. and Mrs. Forney have lived all their married life in the home where she passed away.  Her loving companion of all these years, as well as her children, were with her in her last illness and at the moment she passed into life everlasting. 

      Grandma, as she was known to everybody, leaves eleven grandchildren; one brother is still living, Mr. J. F. Hurst, of Angleton, Texas.  In addition to these there are a host of friends to morn her passing, as she was known and loved by everybody for miles around. 

      Rev. W. H. Frame, pastor of the U. B. church of Maitland, conducted the funeral assisted by Rev. W. L. Meyer, pastor of the German M. E. church of this city. 

      W. H. F.
    Person ID I17684  CCBasic
    Last Modified 3 Jul 2023 

    Father John Fredrick Hurst,   b. Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Detrick,   b. Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1847 
    Family ID F6800  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Phillip Seneff Forney,   b. 2 Jun 1839, Wayne County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1924, Nodaway Twp., Holt County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 26 Jan 1865  [4] 
    Alt. Marriage 25 Jan 1866  [5] 
    Children 
     1. Edward O. Forney   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Infant Forney   d. Died in Infancy
     3. Infant Forney   d. Died in Infancy
     4. William Forney   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Ella Forney   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F6801  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jan 2023 

  • Sources 
    1. [S384] Missouri. Oregon., Missouri, Holt County -- The Holt County Sentinel (Newspapers.com), 29 Jan 2023, "Taps Are Sounded," 15 October 1909, p. 1, col. 4; digital images(https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80068856 : accessed 29 Jan 2023).

    2. [S64] Missouri Bureau of Vital Records, Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri -- Death Certificates 1910-1974, (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ :n.d.), 30 Jan 2023, death certificate no. 21116 (1916), Anna Forney, accessed 30 Jan 2023.

    3. [S64] Missouri Bureau of Vital Records, Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri -- Death Certificates 1910-1974, (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ :n.d.), 30 Jan 2023, death certificate no. 11013 (1924), Phillip Seneff Forney, accessed 30 Jan 2023.

    4. [S384] Missouri. Oregon., Missouri, Holt County -- The Holt County Sentinel (Newspapers.com), 31 Jan 2023, "Death of Mrs. Anna Forney," 16 June 1916, p. 5, col. 4; digital images(https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/80073325 : accessed 30 Jan 2023).

    5. [S384] Missouri. Oregon., Missouri, Holt County -- The Holt County Sentinel (Newspapers.com), 31 Jan 2023, "Obituary - Phillip Forney," 18 April 1924, p. 5, col. 2; digital images(https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/861173663 : accessed 31 Jan 2023).