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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 (nee) Donehower.
The US 1900 Census finds him at age "2" living with his parents at 2nd Street, North Platte township, Lincoln Co. in Nebraska.
The US 1910 Census finds him at age "12" living with his parents at 303, West 1st Street in North Platte.
In 1917 he took up employment at North Platte's Dixon jewelry store, as reported in The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune, issue of August 21st 1917.
His WW1 Draft Registration Card, signed by the Registrar on September 12th 1918, describes him as aged "20", living at 303, West 1st Street and occupied as a shoe salesman. His date of birth was given as December 1st 1897. His father was named as next-of-kin. He was of medium height with light hair and brown eyes.
The US 1920 Census finds him at age "22", still single and lodging with his mother Mattie in East 5th Street, North Platte in the household of a John Day. He was working in a shoe store.
On April 20th 1921 he married at North Platte to Hazel Anna (nee) 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 Thurston in Kearney City, Buffalo Co. 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. He was now working as a life insurance salesman. Meanwhile, Hazel and her two children were at North Platte in her parents' household. He occupation was entered as clerk in a jewelry store (possibly Dixon's).
The US 1940 Census finds Thurston and Hazel with their two children and Thurston's widowed mother Mattie living at 220, N. Jeffers Street in Kearney City where Thurston was still working as an insurance salesman.
His WW2 Draft Registration Card gives his address as Apartment 3, Reynolds Terrace in North Platte and that he was self-employed under the name "Woodhurst Insurance". Hazel was working in the jewelry business.
Thurston died in 1947 and was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson Co., Colorado. No information about his death has yet been discovered.
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.
Martha A. was born in Nebraska around 1922.