Joseph Hurless
Joseph Hurless, hotel keeper, Jeffersonville, was born, July 23, 1826, in this county, where he married Miss Ellen Fent, daughter of William and Delila (Bodkin) Fent, June 16, 1850; six children are the result of this union: Joseph S., William F., Mary J., Clide E., Hattie M. and Viva Blanch, All deceased save Joseph and Hattie.
Our subject was elected justice of the peace of this township, in 1860, and has held office ever since except one year. He has been successful in his official duties and in business. He remembers when this place was very thinly settled, and the school house where he first attended school, stood where the village cemetery now is; it was log with puncheon floors, window made of greased paper, and heated by means of a fire-place, perhaps nine feet long. Mr. Hurless is a highly respected citizen, and a worthy member of the I. O. O. F., of Jeffersonville Lodge.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County