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Bible was found by her after a 25 year search, in 1959, by Mr. Oscar Merryman, Robertson Co., Texas. Most of the records are written with a quill by J. A. Turner, Sr. The HOLY BIBLE containing the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS, together with the APOCRYPHA. King James Version. 1080 pages plus many tables, etc. and the Psalms in Metre. Printed & Published by M. Carey. No. 121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 1814. The family record is between the Bible and the Apocrypha. All information in brackets is by Mrs. Alma Nettie Wilson Barnes. (1974) MARRIAGES pg. 677 Diana a. a. Turner was married to John A. Turner in the year 1812 the 4th of October. (Owingsville, Bath Co., KY., was their home. Both persons were born in Virginia.). Mrs. Nancy S. Irvin was married to Charles James Turner in the year 1858, the 18th of March, (Washington Co., TX.). BIRTHS pg. 678 Benj’n Turner, son of John A. Turner and Diana, his wife, was born December the 8th in the year 1813. * John A. Turner, son of John A. Turner and Diana, his wife, was born February the 2nd in the year 1816. * Ann Claughton Turner - Daughter of John A. Turner & Diana A. A. Turner, his wife, was born February the 3rd, 1822. * Charles James Turner, son of John A. Turner & Diana, his wife, was born August the 20th, 1824. * (A. N. W. B.’s grandfather). Lucy Mae Turner, daughter of John A. Turner and Diana A. A. Turner, his wife, was born May the 25th, 1829. * Archibald Kennedy Turner, son of John A. Turner and Diana, his wife, was born July 4, 1832. * (*All children were born in Owingsville, Bath Co., KY.) DEATHS pg 679 James Turner, son of John A. Turner and Diana, his wife, departed this life June the 6th, 1820. (Infant, Owingsville, Bath Co., KY.). Diana Ann Allan Turner, wife of John Alexander Turner, departed this life, February the 26th, 1840 (Owingsville, KY.). John A. Donaldson, born March 11, 1849, departed this life Sept. 2nd, 1868, Robertson County, Texas. (Ann’s son, buried in Camp Creek Cemetery, Robertson Co., TX. Has a marker.) Lucy Mae Turner departed this life Aug. 8th, 1864. (Camp Creek Cemetery. Has marker. Taught school and was a seamstress.) Benjamin Turner, 1st. Lt. CSA. Died Aug. 27th, 1867. (CSA marker placed at his unmarked grave in Camp Creek Cemetery, 1965, by A. N. W. B.). John A. Turner, Sr. departed this life August the 5th, 1871. Buried in Camp Creek Cemetery. No marker. John A. Turner, Jr. departed this life July 29th, 1887? (Owingsville, Ky or Texas? U. S. Census, 1880, lists him in Bath Co., KY.. His wife had died. Later, his two daughters, Nannie and Julia and possibly a son - Dr. Joshua Turner, came to Texas. Nannie taught school in Camp Creek and Alvin, Brazoria Co., Texas.) Ann C. Donaldson, daughter of John A. Turner and Diana Ann Allan, his wife, departed this life, February the 6th, 1898. (Written by her unmarried brother, Archibald.) Buried in Camp Creek Cemetery. No marker. Archie K. Turner departed this life Nov. 17th, 1899. (He is buried in a field on 160 ½ acres purchased by his father when J. A. Turner left Washington Co., Texas, to join his children, when they followed him from Bath Co., Ky. In Archie’s will he had requested an iron fence around his grave. He was buried where requested - in a field where he often took a nap after his noon meals, while his horse rested. No fence was provided. In 1965, a farmer was plow over his grave.) Camp Creek Cemetery is located in Robertson County, Texas, southeast of New Baden, Texas. John Alexander Turner, Sr., an attorney, was clerk of the court of Robertson County, Texas, prior to and during the Civil War and until a short time before his death in 1871. His letter to his daughter, Ann, welcoming his children to Texas follows: Washington County, Texas February 8, 1855 My Dear Ann The last mail brought me your letter of January the 11th. Nearly a month since it was written, a long time to take a letter to travel sixty miles. I am very glad to hear that you have reached Texas and are all in good health; from the tone of your letter, I infer that you have come to the conclusion to take up residence where you are; if such is the fact, I am very sorry to hear it. The country may be and no doubt is, a very good one, but I am of the opinion that there is no part of the state to be compared with that I have settled in, for health; lands to be sure are higher here than in some other counties, but taking into consideration the advantages and disadvantages of frontier life, I have come to the conclusion that this is one of the best counties in Texas. You, no doubt, are almost worn out with the fatigue of traveling so long a journey, but when you come to find the climate one of the best in the world for females, and their rights better protected than in any other state in the union, you can’t well help liking the country. Nothing in the world could afford me more pleasure than to see you, all of you. The roads are uncommonly good now, much better than I anticipate they will be in the spring. And I don’t see why you cannot come and see me. It is true that I am not situated to treat you as I should wish to do, but the weather is warm now and we could at least shelter you from a storm in the Shell of a house in which we live - I would come to see you immediately if my means & other circumstances would permit. I have not received a dollar from Kentucky since your brother Ben was here more than a year ago. I received a letter in June stating a remittance of a check would be certainly forwarded in a few days, but it came not. In November I received another of the same import, apologizing for the failure and stating that it would be forwarded on a specified day, but it has not come; consequently, I have been placed in an awkward, and would have been in a state of destitution but for the kindness of friends who were total strangers to me before I came to the county - I have great reason to like the people & country - It is true that there are good and bad in all counties, but I can in truth say that I have been treated with more kindness and consideration than I had any right to expect. - You may come to see me; I have much to say to you. When we reached the county, I was almost entirely without means, and after the purchase of a little farm and building the shell of a house, I was left entirely destitute. It was then warm weather, April, Archie and I set in to hard labor, endeavoring to open a little place; having settled in the woods where there was not a tree above, but the heat overcame us and I was stricken down to my bed. There remained almost all the time for fifteen months, the greater part of the time, at the very point of death, a greater of which time Archie was as bad as myself. Had it not been for the kindness of C. B. Sheppard, Esq. and his excellent wife & a few others, we must inevitably have died. I shall never be able to compensate for their kindness. Tell John (her son) that I want to see him and Di (her daughter) and his cousins very much. You must fix up and come & see me as soon as you can. Archie has everything to do & cannot come, he is more than anxious to see you all. If you had come on a place adjoining me could have been procured for you - and might yet probably be had. It is the place old man Ervin (Irvin - Nancy’s second husband) owned when your brother, Ben was here. If you cannot come on immediately, what prevents one of the boys - Ben or Charles - from doing so? I as well as Archie would be more gratified to see you, one and all of you. Give my love to the dear children & the boys; Archie desires to be remembered to you all affectionately. You must excuse this incoherent scrall. It is written in a great hurry as the mail leaves today & it will hardly have time to reach the office in time. Some of you must write immediately. Your Father J. A. Turner This letter is in Mrs. A. Nettie Wilson Barnes’
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