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.
Kathleen Spurlin (prison chaplain) · Peoplestrong Sister Kathleen Spurlin, BVM (1925–2023), was a Minnesota-born Catholic sister and teacher who became senior chaplain at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution near Leakesville.
Owen and Amanda Spurlin Family of Mississippi · Genealogyweak Owen Spurlin was born enslaved on a Mississippi plantation. He and his wife Amanda raised 14 children and bought farmland near Lexington, Mississippi, in 1899. Their story is recorded in a family history, and descendants have held reunions, including in San Francisco in 2010 and near Chicago in 2012.
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.