My fourth cousin 4 times removed.
Born: 1770. 1
Parents: THOMAS TURNER AND JANE FAUNT LE ROY
Married: multiple.
Death: 18 July 1834. 1
Notes:
From Westmoreland County, VA and moved to "Wheatland," Jefferson County; he was a Justice of Westmoreland County 1795, and a member of the House of Delegates for Westmoreland County in 1799 and 1800. 1
Listed in the 1810 Federal Census, Jefferson, VA, indicating five males under 10, three males age 10-15, one male age 16-25, four males age 26-44, three females under 10, one female age 10-15, and two females age 16-25.
Listed as a farmer in the 1820 Federal Census, Old Furnace, Jefferson, VA, as over age 45 indicating one male under 10, one male 16-26, two females under 10, two females 16-26, one female 26-45, eleven persons engaged in agriculture, seventeen male slaves under 14, four male slaves age 14-25, eight male slaves age 26-45, two male slaves over 45, eleven female slaves under 14, five female slaves age 14-25, four female slaves age 26-45, and one female slave over 45.
Spouse (1): CATHERINE BLACKBURN m. 1796. 1
CHILDREN OF HENRY SMITH TURNER AND CATHERINE BLACKBURN:
(my fifth cousins 3 times removed)
THOMAS B. TURNER
BUSHROD W. TURNER d. 30 Sep. 1828, lost at sea; midshipman USN. 1
GEORGE W. TURNER b.1810 d.17 Oct 1859, murdered by John Brown's party, Harper's Ferry, VA. 1 3
WILLIAM FAUNTLEROY TURNER
MARY TURNER m. (Unknown) Allibone. 1
JANE TURNER m. Dr. Byrd. 1
CHRISTINE TURNER b. about 1815, Virginia.
CATHERINE TURNER m. Dr. Wright. 1
Spouse (2): LUCY LYNN HOPKINS m. 22 March 1820, Frederick Co., VA 2 no issue. 1
Sources:
1. Genealogies of Virginia Families, from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1981.
2. Dodd, Jordan R., et al., Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, Precision Indexing Publishers.
3. Graduate of West Point.
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