Biographical Sketch of John Turner, Wright 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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John Turner, farmer and stockman of Wright Co., Mo., was born in Roane
County, Tenn., in 1820, and was there reared to manhood and married. 
He immigrated to Missouri in 1849 and in October, 1860, took up his
abode on his present farm in Wright County.  He first married Rebecca
McMullin, and by her had the following children: Sarah (Mrs. Hanks),
Elizabeth A. (Mrs. Odell), Margaret (Mrs. Bell), Nancy (Mrs. Moore),
Mary (Mrs. Ridgway), Frances (Mrs. Bumont), Laura (Mrs. Henson) and
John J.  Those deceased are Jason, who died during the Civil War, and
James, at the age of fifteen years.  Mr. Turner took for his second
wife, Miss Elizabeth White, and their children are as follows: Jesse,
who married Sarah J. Hensley, and is the father of one child, Lillie;
Triphena, wife of Will Hight; Joseph C., who married Ary L. Crippen,
and has one child, John Andrew; John, and Fisher C., who was killed by
accident when four years of age.  John married Tennessee Evans, but
since her death has lived with his father.  Mr. Turner was in the 
Federal service during the late war, serving in a Missouri Company. He
owns a good farm of 286 acres, and is well fixed financially.  He is a
Republican, a member of the G. A. R., and belongs to the Baptist 
Church.  His parents, John and Sarah (TaLee) Turner, were married in 
New Orleans, whither the father had come from his native land of 
Ireland after he had attained manhood.  He soon after moved to Tenn.,
where he lived until his family grew to maturity, and in 1849 located
in Scott County, Mo., where he died in 1889.  He was a soldier in the
War of 1812, and he and his sons, John, whose name heads this sketch,
and Sterling, were in the Florida War.  The father and Sterling held
commissions as lieutenant.  The latter was a captain in the late war on
the Confederate side, and was killed at the battle of Vicksburg. Joseph
another son, held the rank of major under Gen. Sherman, in the United
States Army, and was at the siege of Vicksburg, where his brother was
killed, and after the surrender found his brother dead.  Besides this
brother he had another brother, two nephews, and a brother-in-law in 
the surrender.  John Turner, the father, and his wife were the parents
of eight sons and three daughters, and after the mothers death he 
married a Mrs. McMullin, whose maiden name was Matlock.  To them were
born two children.  The paternal grandfather immigrated with his large
family from Ireland to America, and located in North Carolina, where he
died at a very old age.
 
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