TURNER BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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TURNER, John P. - b: 1821 Bourbon Co, KY
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 782
residence: Leesville Twp

Captain John P. Turner, farmer and stock raiser, section 29, is a native of 
Bourbon County, Kentucky, and was born December 18, 1821. His father, Joseph 
Turner, a Virginian by birth, went to Kentucky when a young man and there 
married Susan Parks. John P. passed his younger days on the home farm, receiving 
his education at the Bourbon County Seminary where he acquired a fair education 
in the common English branches. In the spring of 1844 he came to Henry County, 
Missouri, and bought and entered 408 acres of land on Cedar Creek near Grand 
River. Mr. Turner was married in this county in the fall of 1844 to Miss Rosa J. 
Parks, a daughter of Reuben Parks, a pioneer settler of the county. There were 
eight children by this marriage, three of whom are living: Perez, John and Nancy 
B.; five are deceased. Mrs. Turner died in November, 1874. The captain was again 
married, this time in Indiana, March 8, 1877, to Mrs. Harriet E. Duggins, a 
daughter of R. W. Mullis. She is a native of Hancock County, Indiana, but was 
reared and educated in Fayette County. They have three children: Lela Myrtle, Ala 
Delle and Bonnie. Mr. Turner served during the war in the Enrolled Missouri Militia 
and was captain of a company. He was also appointed and acted as county judge 
but resigned the position in 1864 and was then appointed assessor and made the 
assessment of the county. He also was elected under the township organization, 
assessor of his township, all of which positions he has filled faithfully and 
impartially.

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