John Newt Turner

Birth Date

1819-06-24

Death Date

1889-03-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, merchant and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Turner. Father of Eunice Turner and Mary Turner. Merchant in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Judge of the Caldwell County Court in Princeton in 1860. Judge of the Caldwell County Court in Princeton in 1861. Judge of the Caldwell County Court in Princeton in 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, 345A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 779.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 112.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.
“John N. Turner (1819-1889),” Find A Grave, Memorial #18481142, accessed May 15, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18481142.
KYR-0001-017-0167.

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