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Biography of Mississippi John Hurt was born July 2,
1892, in According to personal biography of his
life John Hurt learn to love and appreciate music and guitar playing from
William H Carson, a man infatuated with his teacher at the St. James School,
located in Avalon, Mississippi. John Hurt stated, " I
wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel
asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to
play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After
that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can
tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar music. I was playing
for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm new Avalon In 1916 John Hurt met and married Gertrude
Hoskins. Three years later they had a son TC Hurt born April 1, 1919. Then in
1921, they had a daughter Ida Mae Hurt born June 26, 1921. Shortly after the
birth of Ida Mae John and Gertrude separated for unknown reasons. John and Gertrude never divorced, however,
did go there separate ways as couple. Yet they continued to raise their
children as one. Gertrude soon met Will Connelly who shared the parenting of
the two children. They never had children together. John and Jesse Lee Cole
shared the parenting of the two children and had one son of their own, John
William. The children of John and Gertrude both
preceded their parent in death. Ida Mae was killed at the age of 19 by her
estranged husband, Doc Johnson she left behind two small children whom
Gertrude raised as her own. TC Hurt died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 46
years old leaving 14 children behind many under the age of adulthood. Between John Hurt's three children he had
eighteen grandchildren. TC and his wife Annie Dora Richardson had fourteen
children. Ida Mae and her husband Doc Johnson had two children. John William
and his wife Bonnie Lott had two children which John and Jesse raised as
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