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Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney)

b. 1821-09-10 d. 1900-09-11

Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of Squire Turner and Elizabeth Turner. Married to Mary B. Everitt Turner on October 25, 1857. Married to Henrietta Robertson Turner on December 31, 1857. Father of Mary E. Turner, Ben Turner, Squire Turner, and Charlie Turner. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1840. Graduated from law school at Transylvania University in Lexington in 1842. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in the U. S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1848. Attorney in Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Montgomery County from 1861 to 1863.

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Race
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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Richmond, p. 252.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 292.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 308A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Mt. Sterling, p. 308A.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 328.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 632.

"Thomas Turner (1821-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6868728, accessed April 23, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6868728.

Citation

Turner, Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196659 (November 12, 2026).

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