Limestone-Morgan-Lawrence County AlArchives Biographies.....Turrentine, John 1811 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOHN TURRENTINE, Merchant, Athens, was born at Hillsboro, N. C., May 15, 1811.

    His parents were John and Nancy (Wilson) Turrentine. The Turrentines came
from Ireland in the Colonial days, and some of them fought with distinction in
the Revolutionary War, and afterward held important trusts in the civil
government. The senior John Turrentine entered the United States Regular Army
soon after the battle of New Orleans, and served five years, lacking three
months, and died. His wife in the meantime had removed, at his request, from
North Carolina to Tennessee, settled in Lincoln County, and there received the
news of his death. He was a non-commissioned officer, and was the father of four
daughters and two sons. Through the influence of General Houston. Congress
passed a bill granting a bounty to his heirs in consideration of his services.
Mrs. Turrentine removed to Morgan County, Ala., in 1820, and there died in 1826,
at the age of forty-five years.

    The subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm and acquired such
education as was possible to his limited circumstances. He lived in Lawrence
County twelve years, coming from Courtland, where he had been a salesman, with a
small stock of goods, to Athens in 1844. He has now been forty-four years a
merchant in thiť town.

    For twelve years preceding the war, he held the office of Justice of the
Peace, and for three or four years after the war was General Administrator. He
was opposed to secession, and did what he could to prevent it, but when the
South withdrew from the Union, he espoused the cause of his State, and it cost
him the whole of his property, for the Yankees burned up everything he had.

    Mr. Turrentine was married while in Lawrence County (May, 1837), to Susan
Ann Stevens, who died in November, 1842, leaving one son, now the Hon. John J.
Turrentine, of this city.

    Mr. Turrentine married his second wife, Amanda Melvina Francis Higgins, in
this county, and she died July 16, 1884. Of the seven children born to her, six
were living at the time of her death, and one has since died. The living are:
Thomas J., a merchant; William H., a lawyer; Nancy Elizabeth; Sarah Louisa (Mrs.
James William Bridgfourth), Martha Ann, died August 1, 1870, and Jane died March
9, 1885.

    Mr. Turrentine is a Master Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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