THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Hurts: O.V., Sarah, Mae, Roy Robinett & Martha

Hurt Family

If there is a hero in this story, it is Orlando Victor “O. V.” Hurt who loved his family unconditionally through out the whole ordeal.

O. V., forty-five in 1903, was head salesman at Kline’s Mercantile and had once been Republican Party State Committeeman. He and Sarah (neé Starr), forty-two, had been married for twenty-three years. They had met on the Oregon Coast where Sarah had grown up.

When her family, the Starrs, including her brothers Burgess and Clarence and her sister Georgianah, had first moved to the coast in 1873, they squatted in an old Indian hut on the Siletz Indian Reservation. The Reservation was created at a time when the government was trying to "civilize" Indians. "Civilized" people were at the time defined as Christians who tilled the soil, wore cotton or wool clothing, and spoke English. The government parceled out reservations among Christian denominations, and the Methodists were given the Siletz Indian Reservation.

When they were first married, O. V. and Sarah lived at the Starrs’ homestead on the Yachats River. It was there that their three children (Frank, Maud and Mae) were born--a forth child, Mary Edna, had died in infancy. Later the Hurts moved to the reservation school, where O. V. worked as a teacher and Sarah as the matron.

Because of disharmony among the Methodists working for the Indian Agency, the Hurts left the reservation in 1893. They moved to Corvallis where they lived peacefully and happily. They were such a loving family, that when O. V. and Sarah realized that their children were soon going to be leaving home to embark on lives of their own, they adopted more--Roy Robinett, fourteen, and Martha, a baby.

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Most of the movie stills from How the Fire Fell, Edward P. Davee’s movie based on the Holy Rollers were taken by Destiny Lane.
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Sarah & O.V. Hurt

Hurt FamilyKrizia Amber, Maren McGuire, David Poland, Jacob Reehl, Jon Ashley Hall, & Alana Crow as Mae, Maud, O.V., Roy Robinett, Frank and Sarah Hurt.

O.V. Hurt
OV Hurt
David Poland as O.V. Hurt
Sarah Hurt

Sarah Hurt & the Holy Rollers
Alana Crow as Sarah Hurt

Attie Bray & Mae Hurt

Maud, Sarah & Mae Hurt
Maren McGuire, Alana Crow and Sara Robbin as
Maud, Sarah and Mollie Hurt

Martha Hurt

Sarah & OV Hurt
Alana Crow & David Poland
as Sarah & O.V. Hurt

Roy Hurt & Edmund Creffield
Roy Hurt
Jacob Reehl as Roy Robinett Hurt
Mae Hurt
Sarah & OV Hurt
Alana Crow & David Poland as
Sarah & O.V. Hurt
Hosford Homestead
Roy & OV Hurt
Jacob Reehl & David Poland as Roy Robinett & O.V. Hurt
O.V. Hurt's House
OV Hurt's House
O.V. Hurt
OV Hurt
David Poland as O.V. Hurt
Sarah Hurt
Sarah Hurt
Alana Crow as Sarah Hurt
S. L. Kline

OV Hurt
David Poland as O.V. Hurt

Hurt Family Photo

Krizia Amber, Maren McGuire, David Poland, Jacob Reehl, Jon Ashley Hall, & Alana Crow as Mae, Maud, O.V., Roy Robinett, Frank and Sarah Hurt.

David W. Poland
David W. Poland

Alana Crow
Alana Crow

Jacob Reehl

Jacob Reehl

 

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