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Born 1832
From Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912)
-TURNER.
In the following lines the biographer sets forth succinctly and, we hope correctly, the leading facts and characteristics of one of Jasper county's estimable ladies, who, since taking up her residence here, has formed a wide acquaintance with its best people, and all speak of her as one whose acts have ever been aliove idle civil and singularly free of aught that the world terms unladylike and whose career has been governed throughout by correct and right motives.
Mrs. Mary C. Pease-Turner, who owns the beautiful and well kept Turner homestead in Poweshiek township, known as the "Hawthorne Farm," is the widow of C. C. Turner. She came to the vicinity where she now resides in 1856, with her parents, Andrew and Joanna M. (Cook) Pease, the mother being the daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Pierson) Cook. This family moved here from near Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, where the subject was born September 28, 1832, and therefore she is now, in the line of the
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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