Federal land patents to Spurlins · Historystrong The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office records list 94 federal land patents to people surnamed Spurlin, issued between 1823 and 1963. Most are for land in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana before the Civil War.
United States v. Spurlin (2011) · Historystrong United States v. Spurlin, 664 F.3d 954 (5th Cir. 2011), is a Fifth Circuit bankruptcy-crimes decision. It held that a general power of attorney can be used to file a bankruptcy petition for someone else, reversed one false-oath conviction for insufficient evidence, and affirmed convictions for concealing estate assets and for bankruptcy fraud.
William Dexter Spurlin (Presbyterian minister) · Historystrong Rev. William Dexter Spurlin (1860–1935), an Alabama-born Southern Presbyterian minister, served churches at Cleveland, Tennessee, Demopolis, Alabama, Monroe, Louisiana, and Laurel, Mississippi.