"Big John" Spurling and the Spurlin DNA Project · Genealogymixed John Spurlin (or Spurling) Sr., known to researchers as "Big John", lived in Orange, Chatham, Richmond and Lincoln counties, North Carolina, and left a will in 1822 naming 23 children. Y-DNA testing places a descendant in the same paternal line as the Jeremiah Spurling family of Virginia, but no document yet found names his parents.
Andrew Jackson Spurlin (1817–1923) · Genealogymixed Andrew Jackson "Uncle Jack" Spurlin (died 1923) was a North Carolina-born farmer and miller in Grayson County, Virginia. His grave memorial and obituary made him 105 or 106, but the 1860 and 1870 censuses put his birth around 1830.
Daniel Spurlin (Hardin County, Iowa, pioneer) · Historystrong Daniel Spurlin (1807–1868) was a North Carolina-born blacksmith who settled in Union Township, Hardin County, Iowa, in 1851. He was killed in a sleigh accident on his way home from church meetings, is buried in Hauser Cemetery at Whitten, and county histories and newspapers record his family.
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.
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.
Howell-Spurlin Cemetery (Shelby, North Carolina) · Placesweak Howell-Spurlin Cemetery is a small 19th-century family burial ground in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. Find a Grave records 16 memorials, among them John Howell (1744–1828) and five Spurlins who died between 1850 and 1890.
James Clinton Spurlin (Methodist minister) · Peoplestrong Rev. James Clinton "Clint" Spurlin (1890–1984), born at Ennice, North Carolina, was a Methodist minister in the Holston Conference in southwestern Virginia for 43 years.
John E. Spurlin (Confederate soldier) · Historystrong John E. Spurlin (1841–1861) was a Rutherford County, North Carolina, farmer. He enlisted in the 16th North Carolina Infantry in 1861 and, according to the regimental roster, died of typhoid fever at Warrenton, Virginia, that December; a 1937 county history gives a different date and place.
John Spurlin (1780–1851) · Genealogyweak John Spurlin was a North Carolina-born pioneer who married Mary Willey in Ashe County in 1810. WikiTree dates him 1780–1851, places his death in Christian County, Illinois, and makes him a son of Zachariah Spurling of Surry and Ashe counties and a grandson of Jeremiah Spurling Jr. of Fairfax County, Virginia. Other records do not fit those dates, and a different John Spurlin (1780–1851) died in Christian County, Kentucky.
Max Spurlin (American football) · Peoplestrong Max Leland Spurlin (1923–2001) was a guard for the University of North Carolina in the 1940s who also played for the 1944 Great Lakes Navy team and was on the 1949 roster of the Charlotte Clippers, a minor-league professional team.
Spurlin cemeteries · Placesweak A roundup of burial grounds named for the Spurlin family on Find a Grave: eight Spurlin cemeteries in Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and North Carolina, plus Spurlington- and Spurling-named cemeteries and the graves of notable Spurlins.
Spurlin Family History in America · Historymixed An overview of Spurlin and Spurling families in America, from colonial Virginia and New England through southern and western migration, Civil War service, and published genealogies.
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 Signs & Awnings · Companiesweak Spurlin Signs & Awnings, Inc. is a sign and awning contractor in Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina, founded in 2001.
Spurlin Trucking · Companiesweak Spurlin Trucking is a family trucking business in Wake Forest, North Carolina, with federally registered carriers dating from 1997 and 2012.
Spurling public officials (variant spelling) · Peoplestrong Minor public officials and candidates with the related surname Spurling, including a 19th-century Maine postmaster, a 2004 Democratic National Convention alternate, a North Carolina town councilman and school-board member, and a Georgia county coroner.
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 Ashe and Alleghany Counties, North Carolina · Genealogyweak Spurlins from Fairfax County, Virginia, settled in the Blue Ridge counties of Ashe and Alleghany, North Carolina, in the late 18th century. Descendants served in the 22nd North Carolina Infantry, were merchants and farmers around Sparta and Ennice in the 20th century, and gave their name to three family burial grounds.
Spurlins of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina · Genealogymixed The Spurlin line of Cleveland and Rutherford counties, North Carolina, descends from Isaac Spurlin Sr. (c. 1770–c. 1854), son of John ("Big John") and Myally Spurlin. It is traced through deeds, censuses, an 1826 North Carolina Supreme Court case, Confederate rosters and family graves around Shelby and Ellenboro.
W. H. Spurlin (Georgia pioneer) · Genealogymixed W. H. Spurlin was a Confederate veteran born in Shelby, North Carolina, who settled in Pulaski County, Georgia. His descendants spread through Worth County, Sylvester and Valdosta.