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Hurst family. Clemens mistakenly writes in “Villagers” (94) that his boyhood friend John Lewis Robards “married a Hurst—new family.” In fact, in 1861 Robards married Sara Helm, whose family was relatively “new” to Hannibal, having arrived from Kentucky in 1852 (Holcombe, 608, 992). No Hurst family has been identified among the town’s residents.
