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Born 1845, Henry county
From Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912)
JAMES K. TURNER.
For various reasons James K. Turner, of Newton, Jasper county, is deemed eligible for specific mention in this volume, not the least of which is the fact that he was one of the brave "boys in blue" who offered his services in defense of his country during the dark days of the early sixties. His life has been one of honest endeavor and certainly not devoid of good to his fellow men, as many of them will freely attest. He has always been a hard worker and has never permitted obstacles to turn him from his course when once he knew that he was right. He was born in July 1845, in Henry county, Indiana, the son of James and Priscilla (Ferrow) Turner, the father born in Guilford county, North Carolina, and the mother in Virginia, the latter's people at one time being Atxy prominent in their locality and owning a large plantation along the Blue river. Her father was a slave holder, owning about one hundred slaves, and at his death these and his estate fell to the subject's mother and her brother, John C. Ferrow, later a general in the Confederate armv. After Priscilla Ferrow married ]\Mr. Turner, most of the slaves Avere
As printed in Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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