Person

Oscar Turner, Sr. (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and planter)

b. 1825-02-03 d. 1896-01-22

Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and planter. New Orleans, Louisiana, native. Son of Fielding Lewis Turner and Caroline Sargent Turner. Married to Eugenia Caroline Gardner Turner in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 20, 1855. Father of Henry Turner and Lily Turner. Resident of Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1826. Resident of Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1843. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1847. Attorney in Ballard County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Ballard County in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Planter in Ballard County in 1860. Owned forty-seven enslaved persons in Ballard County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, p. 286B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, McCuistians District, p. 741.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, McCuistians District, p. 40A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, District 1, p. 362B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819602.

"Oscar Turner Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 23, 1896, p. 6.

P. C. Headley, Public Men of To-Day: Being Biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, Each Member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and the Justices of the Supreme Court fo the United States, and of the Governors of the Several States, First Series (Hartford, CT: S. S. Scranton & Company, 1882), 608-9.

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association: Held in Middlesboro, KY. July 12th, 13th, 14th, 1910 (Caron Press, 1910), 63-5.

Z. F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Printing Company, 1886), 788.

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Turner, Oscar, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196700 (November 12, 2026).

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