Crisp-Wilcox-Jackson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Turk, Amanda Selina (Ballew) Kilgore September 12, 1920
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The Cordele Dispatch, Wednesday, 15 September 1920, page 1, column 6
Remains Mrs. Amanda Turk Buried at Sunnyside Monday
     The remains of Mrs. Amanda A. Turk [sic; should be Amanda S. Turk] were 
laid to rest in Sunnyside cemetery Monday afternoon, the funeral having been 
conducted by Rev. Wallace Wear, pastor of the Baptist church here.  Mrs. Turk 
was the mother of Assistant Chief of Police T. N. Turk of Cordele and resided 
with her husband at Pitts for the past three years.  She was a native of 
Jackson county and was a life long member of the Apple Valley Baptist church.  
Within a few month [sic] she would have been eighty years old.
     Her husband who was seventy four years of age and four children survive.  
The children are W. F. Kilgore of Monroe; Miss Lenna Turk of Jefferson; C. B. 
Turk of Pitts and Asst. Chief T. N. Turk of Cordele.

Additional Comments:
Amanda Selina Ballew was born on 25 January 1842 in Jackson Co., Ga., the 
oldest child of Jason "Jesse" C. Ballew and Mariah (Ellison) Ballew.  Her 
mother died 15 October 1847, and she and her sister, Mary Maria Ballew, soon 
went to live with their maternal grandparents, Matthew and Margaret (Miller) 
Ellison, while her father moved to Montgomery, Texas.  She married Dr. James 
Kilgore on 2 April 1871 in Banks Co., GA.  They had four children and soon 
headed to Texas with her sister's family, probably to settle their father's 
estate after his death.  While there (some probably on the journey there), Dr. 
Kilgore and three of the children died, many probably of yellow fever.  Her 
sister, Mary, also died in Texas.  Mary's husband, John W. Chasteen, and their 
children and Amanda and her oldest son, Frank, returned to Georgia.  On 2 
April 1871, she married Alexander Ash Turk and had 5 more children.

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