The Boone County histories sketch five Turner households and never say that any of them were related, so each is kept apart here. A. W. Turner, born at Richmond, Kentucky, in 1801, came to the Columbia bar in the fall of 1831, served in the state Senate, and is credited by the 1882 history with the bill that located the State University in Boone County; his sons William and Squire Turner and his grandson Charles R. Turner kept the family land on Bear Creek and the Two-mile Prairie. Thomas Turner, born in 1817 at the fort at Old Franklin in Howard County, entered eighty acres south of Centralia in 1839 and built it into a 721-acre stock farm. At Sturgeon, A. J. Turner, a Kentuckian who had gone overland to California at eighteen, sat on the city council, and Sherrod W. Turner became cashier of the Sturgeon bank in 1879. J. Lucas Turner, born in St. Louis in 1854 and educated in France and at Georgetown College, settled on a 600-acre farm south of Columbia in 1880 to breed thoroughbred horses and Jersey cattle. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Boone County history.
Earliest in the record
A. W. Turner and Matilda R. (Stone) Turnerborn 1801Most recent in our records
J. Lucas Turnerborn 1854Each number matches a section below. Tap a name to jump to that person.
Lawyer, state senator and farmer
Farmer; son of A. W. Turner
Lawyer and legislator; son of A. W. Turner
Daughter of A. W. Turner
Farmer and stockman on the old homestead; son of William
CHARLES R. TURNER.
The subject of this sketch was born upon the farm where he now es, on the 11th day of July, 1853. His father, Wm. Turner, was rn June 6th, 182D, and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 26th, 80. A. W. Turner, the father of William, and grandfather of ladles R., moved from Madison county, Kentucky, to Columbia, )one county, Missouri, about 1832, when William was three or four ars old. He practiced law in Columbia for some time and then bought a farm on Bear creek, where he spent the rest of his days. 3 and his wife are buried upon the old Turner homestead in the family burying-ground. Wm. Turner was married March 25th, 1852, to Miss C. F. McLean, whose father was the first Baptist preacher in Missouri. She was born and reared in Boone county, Missouri. Her parents were natives of Kentucky. By their marriage Mr. and Mn. Turner had two children, Charles B. and Matilda, who died May 18th, 1875, and is buried beside her father in the family graveyard. Wm. Turner was a member of the Christian church, and a member of the Masonic lodge at Hickory Grove. He went out to New Mexico to restore his failing health. The trip failed to benefit him. He died at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the 26th of May, 1880. Charles B., the only surviving child, is living upon the old homestead. He attended the State University two years after receiving a good commoD school education. He was reared upon the farm, and when he reached manhood those farming as his occupation. He handles stock, principally cattle, and his chief crop is corn. He has a magnificent Jfiirm of seven hundred and twenty acres in a high state of cultivation. His house is near the center of section 29, township 49, and range 11. He was married December 14, 1881, to Miss Belle Rogers, daughter of James and Lizzie (Philips) Rogers, of this county. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Columbia, and withal is an affable, enterprising young gentleman.
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Stock farmer on the Boone and Audrain line
Farmer, then Sturgeon city councilman
A. J. TURNER.
A. J. Turner was born in Warren county, Kentucky, September 2,1831. He is the son of Andrew and Mary (neeHairis) Turner. He came to Missouri when seven years old. He was raised in Saling township, Audrain county, three miles north of Sturgeon. When eighteen years old he went overland to California. He did not remain in the mines but a few months, returning byway of Panama. He was four months at sea and suffered severely from sea-sickness. He was married July 8, 1852, to Miss Catherine, daughter of Jesse and Georgia Vance, natives of Kentucky. They have four children. Their names are P. H., Dora, Mary, and Katie. Dora is the wife of Dr. J. Keith, of Sturgeon. Mr. Turner improved and sold several forms in Audrain county previous to coming to Sturgeon in 1870. Since removing to town, he has followed no particular occupation He came to Sturgeon for the purpose of educating his children. He is au earnest advocate of popular education. He says the or he was ever beaten for an office was when he offered for scho tor. It was when the law required but one director, and known to be in favor of an increased levy for school purpose has been a member of the city council for about ten years. ] Mrs. Turner are both members of the Christian church. He Mason. Mr. Turner is a kind-hearted, quiet, genial man. comfortable circumstances and takes the world very easy.
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Merchant and cashier of the Sturgeon bank
SHERROD W. TURNER.
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Army officer and St. Louis banker; father of J. Lucas Turner
Breeder of thoroughbred horses and Jersey cattle
J. LUCAS TURNER.
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