Biographical Sketch of Thomas B. Turner, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Thomas B. Turner, was born in Caswell county, N. C., July 3, 1837, and
is a son of Thomas and Celia (Wear) Turner, a short biography of whom 
is given with the sketch of Andrew J. Turner.  Thomas B. is the young-
est son of the above parents, and was brought by them to Missouri at an
early day, and attended one term of school (his first) at Springfield.
After locating in Laclede county his educational advantages were very
limited, owing to the newness of the country, and what schooling he
received was in the primitive log school house of pioneer times.  He
remained with his parents until the breaking out of the Civil War, when
he enlisted and served for a short time in Pleasant's Battalion, and
then came home on furlough, but was captured by the Federals and taken
to Rolla, thence to St. Louis, and was afterward taken to Alton, Ill.
At this place his health became very much impaired, and in compliance
with the prison surgeon's advice, he took the oath of allegiance, and
returned home.  Here he remained until the summer of 1862, when he 
obtained a passport and went to his parents in Texas, and the following
year went with a command under Townson to the Gulf of Mexico, where he
remained until the early winter of 1864, and then went to the Red River
country.  He then joined Company I, Fourth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers,
Marmaduke's brigade, Burbridge's regiment, and served until Price made
his raid through Missouri.  He was captured in Kansas, taken to Fort
Scott, thence to Warrensburg on foot, and from there by rail to St.
Louis, where he was retained two or three months.  He was next taken to
Johnson's Island and thence to Akin's Landing, then ro Richmond and
afterward to Mobile, but before reaching the latter place the city had
surrendered, but Mr. Turner was delayed again at Vaiden, Miss., on 
account of sickness, and did not reach home for three of four months.
He made his way to his friends in Texas, and in the fall of 1867 re-
turned with them to Laclede county, where he has since been extensively
engaged in farming and stock raising.  His wife, who was formerly Miss
Josephine T. Jordan, was born in Dablonega, Lumpkin county, Ga., June
22, 1847 and was educated in the Fountain Hill Academy, of Tennessee,
which institution she attended four years.  She was then engaged in
teaching school from fifteen to twenty-four years of age, the most of
the time in Johnson and Camden counties, Mo.  Her marriage with Mr.
Turner was blessed in the birth of four children: Claude J., Walter L.,
Jeane L. and Ora T.  Mr. Turner is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the
A. O. U. W., and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.  Mrs.
Turner's parents, John and Sarah (Scruggs) Jordan, were born in Vir-
ginia and Tennessee, respectively, and the father was a saddler and a
farmer and stock dealer by occupation.  In 1848 he made a trip south,
and is supposed to have been killed by a band of free negroes, who at
that time infested the country.  His widow was married in Tennessee in 
1856, and came to Missouri in the fall of 1860, and is at present 
residing in Greene county, Mo.  She became the mother of one daughter,
Mrs. Turner.  Mrs. Turner is a granddaughter of Rev. John Scruggs, on
Monroe county, Tenn., a history of whose family is given in the History
of East Tennessee.

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