Frederick William Hurst was the tenth child of William and Mary Ann Green Hurst. The family left England in 1839 to colonize New Zealand. In 1852 Frederick and his brothers labored in the Bendigo [Australia] goldfields where Frederick joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1855, he and his brother Clement sailed for the United States by way of Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands. Frederick was involved in many Mormon pioneer activities in Utah and a mission to New Zealand later in life. He passed away in October1918 in his 85th year.

Aurelia Hawkins Hurst was born September 15, 1836, in London, England, to Samuel Harris Hawkins and Charlotte Savage. Samuel Hawkins, a steel engraver, was a very religious man. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-fay Saints in 1848, and moved to America in 1849. Aurelia was about twelve years old when she arrived in the Salt Lake Valley after walking barefoot across the plains. She married Frederick William Hurst, Sr., November 3, 1858, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had ten children. Aurelia died March 24, 1907 after living in Logan, Cache County, Utah 49 years.

Alvira Deseret Lindsay was born on 16 January 1868 in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho to William Buckminster Lindsay and Sarah Henderson. She worked in a dairy as a young woman. One day, Frederick William Hurst, Jr., an artist and builder from Logan, Utah passed the Lindsay home and saw a pretty little eighteen-year-old girl standing by the well with two huge buckets of water calling for her brothers to come help her. Frederick went to her rescue and helped her with the water buckets. They were married a few months later--October 1885. The couple lived in Paris, Idaho until after their first two children were born. Then Frederick went to Salt Lake City to paint murals for the the interior of the Salt Lake Temple. Alvira joined him in Salt Lake City, and they lived there until after the birth of their third child. They then returned to Paris, Idaho where lived for many years. Frederick passed away in January 1933. She died in November 1947 and was buried in the Logan Cemetery.

Sarah Lillian Hurst, the oldest daughetr of Frederick William Hurst, Jr. and Alvira Deseret Lindsay, December 1888. Her father was called to work on the Salt Lake Temple and he moved his family there for a time before moving back to Paris, Idaho. She married Charles Wilker in 1908, whom she met at a meeting where he was spoke about his recent mission. After a life full of service to her family and church, Sarah Lillian Hurst Wilker passed away October 1967, after a brief illness. At the time of her death she was seventy-eight and had been a widow for almost 24 years. She was buried October 4, 1967, in the Mountainview Cemetery in Pocatello.