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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #3991, Date of Import: Oct 25, 1998]

Ruth Hurst (1795-1866) was born at Short Creek Settlement, Ohio County, West Virginia. She was one of four daughters of Morgan Hurst and Rebecca Mills, daughter of Levi Mills. The Hursts and Mills immigrants came from Wales, but who they were is unknown. Levi Mills and his son-in-law Morgan Hurst are the first known of their names. Family traditions linking them to prominent persons lack proof of relationship and/or descent.

Levi Mills left quite a little property in Ohio County to his heirs in1814, and as his daughter Rebecca is named as Rebecca Moran, morgan Hurst her first husband probably died a few years before that. No record of Morgan owning property has been found, at least not under that name, though James Cummings wrote that the estate was under litigation for several years owing to Blair Moran's wish to get it all, and that Nicholas and Ruth put off their marriage for some time hoping for the estate to be settled, but got tired waiting, and were married in 1825 before the estate was settled.

Ruth and Nicholas had six children born in Cambridge, Ohio before they moved to Illinois in 1837. Shortly after the move, John Bailhache adopted their oldest daughter Mary, then about ten years old, to take the place of his daughter Sarah Ann Delano Bailhache, who had died the year previously, the seventh of their children to die in early childhood. Their tenth child was born the following year.
[phelps.FTW]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #3991, Date of Import: Oct 25, 1998]

Ruth Hurst (1795-1866) was born at Short Creek Settlement, Ohio County, West Virginia. She was one of four daughters of Morgan Hurst and Rebecca Mills, daughter of Levi Mills. The Hursts and Mills immigrants came from Wales, but who they were is unknown. Levi Mills and his son-in-law Morgan Hurst are the first known of their names. Family traditions linking them to prominent persons lack proof of relationship and/or descent.

Levi Mills left quite a little property in Ohio County to his heirs in1814, and as his daughter Rebecca is named as Rebecca Moran, morgan Hurst her first husband probably died a few years before that. No record of Morgan owning property has been found, at least not under that name, though James Cummings wrote that the estate was under litigation for several years owing to Blair Moran's wish to get it all, and that Nicholas and Ruth put off their marriage for some time hoping for the estate to be settled, but got tired waiting, and were married in 1825 before the estate was settled.

Ruth and Nicholas had six children born in Cambridge, Ohio before they moved to Illinois in 1837. Shortly after the move, John Bailhache adopted their oldest daughter Mary, then about ten years old, to take the place of his daughter Sarah Ann Delano Bailhache, who had died the year previously, the seventh of their children to die in early childhood. Their tenth child was born the following year.