A Spurlin Family in America (1987 genealogy) · Genealogyweak A Spurlin Family in America is a 230-page family genealogy compiled by Quincy Haggard Spurlin and edited by George Spurlin, published in 1987. It follows one line from Jeremiah Spurling (1680–1725) down to George W. Spurlin (1854–1921) and a Texas branch; WikiTree places a man of that name in a Georgia and Alabama family that moved to Texas.
Charles D. Spurlin (historian) · Historymixed Charles Dennis Spurlin (1932–2013) was a Texas historian and Victoria College professor. He wrote Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War and a history of Waller's 13th Texas Cavalry Battalion, and edited the Civil War diary of Charles A. Leuschner.
Early Spurlin and Spurling families in America · Genealogymixed Spurlin and Spurling families appear in colonial Virginia and North Carolina in the 18th century and moved west and south into Indiana, Alabama and Texas during the 19th century. Their European origins are still debated.
Emma Spurlin Patman and Wright Patman · Historystrong Emma (Spurlin) Patman was the mother of Wright Patman (1893–1976), a Texas congressman for 47 years, co-author of the Robinson–Patman Act and longtime chairman of the House Banking Committee.
Geographic distribution of the Spurlin surname · The Surnamestrong Almost all people named Spurlin live in the United States, especially Texas, Alabama and North Carolina today and Indiana in the 19th century. The fuller spelling Spurling is still found in England (especially East Anglia and London), Australia, Canada and Bermuda.
Spurlin family lines by state · Genealogyweak A state-by-state guide to the main Spurlin and Spurling family lines in the United States, from colonial Virginia and North Carolina to Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Texas and Indiana, with the sources behind each link.
Spurlin historical markers · Historystrong Nine markers and memorials transcribed in the Historical Marker Database name a Spurlin, from a Georgia church founder of 1842 and an Alabama Masonic officer of 1852 to veterans on Confederate, World War I and Vietnam War memorials.
Spurlin, Texas · Placesmixed Spurlin is a ghost town in northwestern Hamilton County, Texas. It was laid out on the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway in 1908–1909 and named for its promoter, the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin. It had a church and a business in 1936 and had disappeared from maps by the late 1980s.
Spurlins in the World Wars · Historystrong Five Army soldiers surnamed Spurlin, from Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas, appear on the War Department's 1946 lists of World War II dead. Two are buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Italy and the Philippines.
Spurlins of Hamilton County, Texas · Historystrong John L. Spurlin (1853–1935), a Hamilton merchant, banker and railroad promoter and a nephew of John H. Reagan, was a founding director of the Hamilton National Bank in 1890 and gave his name to the railroad town of Spurlin in northwestern Hamilton County.
Spurlins of Hardeman County, Tennessee · Genealogymixed Spurlins lived in Hardeman County, in southwest Tennessee, by the 1830s. Eli and George W. Spurlin are buried at Wesley Cemetery, Piney Grove, and George drew a Confederate pension. Another branch moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and on to Texas.
Spurlins of Navarro County, Texas · Genealogymixed Georgia-born Spurlins were in Navarro County, Texas, around the time of statehood. An 1893 county history records Emma Spurlin as the first wife of Isaac B. Sessions, one of the county's organizers, and the Hamilton merchant John L. Spurlin was born at Chatfield Point in 1853.
Steve Spurlin (basketball coach) · Peoplestrong Steve Spurlin is an American basketball coach who led the Blinn College men's basketball program in Brenham, Texas, for 11 seasons before resigning in August 2009.
Terrence Spurlin · Peoplestrong Terrence Spurlin (born 1998) is an American former college baseball first baseman from Cypress, Texas, who played for Kansas State from 2018 to 2022 and was named Big 12 Player of the Week in 2019.
Tyler Spurlin · Peoplestrong Tyler Spurlin (born 1991) is an American former minor league relief pitcher from Rice University who signed with the Milwaukee Brewers as a free agent in 2013 and pitched in their system through 2019, reaching Double-A Biloxi.