Military Monday~Artie Hurst, Application for Admission to Confederate Home and Infirmary

Artie Elizabeth Hurst was born 22 February 1876, the seventh of eight children to William Monroe Hurst and his wife Mary E. Powell. ¹

Her Father, William Monroe Hurst, served with Company D, 6th SC Cavalry, Aiken’s Regiment Partisan Rangers. He enlisted 1 June 1863 and served  for duration of the war with one furlough for unstated sickness. ²

William and Mary married about 1854 and had four children before the War and four children after the war. Artie Elizabeth siblings were 3 sisters and 4 brothers.
In 1908, the SC General Assembly established a Confederate Infirmary for elderly CSA veterans their wives, widows and children. To qualify the veteran had to be at least 70 years old and destitute.

“The state opened the Confederate Home and Infirmary in Columbia in 1909 to house two infirm and destitute veterans from each county. Widows and wives were admitted beginning in 1925 and sisters, daughters, and nieces were admitted in later years. The home was closed in 1958.”³

Thus, on 4 June 1951, at the age of 75, Miss Artie Hurst, daughter of William Monroe Hurst, a CSA Veteran submitted her application for admission to the SC Confederate Infirmary. In her application, Artie stated that of her family only two brothers (Phillip Preston and L. Wesley) were living and that they also were old and infirmed.  
Artie was admitted to the Home on 22 June 1951. She died at the Home on 22 February 1955 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, McFarland, Anson County, North Carolina. ⁴

I wonder how many visits she had from her extended family during the four years she remained at the Home. Columbia, South Carolina is about 84 miles SW of Chesterfield, South Carolina. Seven siblings is a lot of nieces and nephews.

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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 June 2014); Memorial page for ARTIE E. HURST; (22 February 1876–22 February 1955); Find a Grave memorial # 35309397, Citing Pleasant Hill Cemetery; McFarlan, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
[2] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 2 April 2015), entry for W. M. HURST, Private; Company D, 6th SC Cavalry, Aiken’s Regiment Partisan Rangers; Confederate.
[3] http://archives.sc.gov/recordsheld/militaryrecords/Documents/Confederate%20Military%20Records.pdf
[4] MISS ARTIE HURST, death certificate (long) 002371 (22 February 1955), Vital Records, Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.