Surname(s): TURNER, RANDALL
Submitted by: Michele Roth
e-mail: barry.j.roth@verizon.net


HUSBAND: Jesse TURNER
date and place of birth: 11 April 1782 Easton, Bristol, MA
date and place of marriage: 26 July 1817
other marriages: Marey (Polly)
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date and place of death: 8 May 1836 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
father: Sihon TURNER
mother: Jane RANDALL
notes: film # 0890158 Probate Records of Ashtabula County Ohio

WILL OF JESSE TURNER , late of Pierpont presented in court 20June1836............. will to my son DAVID who hath been put in possession of 1 years time and the fruits of the same likewise 1 ax and 12 and 1/2 acres land on lot 39 Pierpont which I consider his full right of dower. The next is his daughter SUSANNAH having already willed and put in her possession of 12 and 1/2 acres by the way of a will deed and some book accounts and consider this her full dower. Next to son CALVIN having willed to him 40 and 1/3 acres and put in his possession of same by deed on lot 4 in Pierpont. Consider this to be his full dower. The next is daughter MARANDA having already willed and put in her possession 12 and 1/2/ acres by deed which I consider her full dower. Next is to son SOLOMON. I do hereby will to him the fruit and use of 22 mos. of his time and 1 rifle and 3 swarm of bees which he has had which I consider his full right of dowery. The next is his companion Polly TURNER together with his children by her, I shall will the remainder of my property to her and them if I leave it before her by death, she to dispose of it to them as she sees fit after we have recieved our maintenance thru life and all debts are settled up only she shall give something to each one. I chose Paul Howland Esq. together with my wife Polly to execute this if necessary. witnessed by James Huntly, Hiram Huntly, Lydia Beals

Jesse TURNER gave the land for the first cemetery in Pierpont. 1st wife Marey was first to die in the town. Supposed to be that after Jesse cleared enough trees, Ancel Benjamin and Samuel Brown dug the grave. TURNERs land and the graveyard is in LOT 16. The township road east from Route7, south of the center extending thru Creek Road to the State Line is named "TURNER Road" probably for one of the first settlers...JesseTURNER. this is from a pamphlet copied by the Ashtabula County Historical Society

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WIFE: Polly FREY
date and place of birth: 18 June 1795 York County, PA
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date and place of death: 4 January 1875 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
father: Henry Frey
mother: Barbara BAUMGARTNER
notes:from the book ,GOTTFRIED FREY : ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY Polly frey's birth is recorded in a fine German script :" This summer came to us the Babe Matta, born June 18,1795, under the sign of the scales." "Justice tempered with mercy" was the rule of her life. When five years old, she was one of the 7 children travelling westward over the mountains from York to Crawford County. Subsisting chiefly on milk from the cows, that hauled the oxcart in which they rode. July 26,1817 , she became the second wife of Jesse TURNER, b. apr.11,1782, in Mass. They spent their lives on a farm near Pierpont,Ohio. Polly died Jan. 4,1875,"Aunt Polly TURNER", lovingly called. Many stories are told of her prowess in the wilderness. She transplanted the pine trees , seen in picture of her son, from the old homestead, to her own home in Ohio. Many stories are told of her prowess. in piloting a group of singers thru the woods to a new Sunday School, needing help of the Frey singers, to leading the cranberry pickers into the Pymatuning swamp, killing 27 rattlers, one day---"so they all say."
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CHILD 1: Polly TURNER
date and place of birth: 26 July 1820 Pierpont, Ashtabula,OH
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date and place of death: 13 January 1824 Pierpont, Ashtabula,OH
notes: from the book ,GOTTFRIED FREY : ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY

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CHILD 2: Julie TURNER
date and place of birth: 1822 Pierpont
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date and place of death: 1822 Pierpont
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CHILD 3: Joseph TURNER
date and place of birth: 8 November 1824 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
married: LORAIN PLACE
date and place of marriage: 8 October 1853 , Ashtabula,OH
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date and place of death: 10 March 1910
notes: 1 child: Frank
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CHILD 4: DIADEMA TURNER
date and place of birth: 6 August 1826 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
married: Ephraim Alpha CASE
date and place of marriage: 1848

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date and place of death: 19 February 1851 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
notes: 3 children: Mary D. and twins Annette & Jeanette
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CHILD 5: SIMEON TURNER
date and place of birth: 14 October 1828 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
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CHILD 6: DELILAH M. TURNER
date and place of birth: 6 May 1831 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
married: Ephraim Alpha Case
date and place of marriage: 1852
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date and place of death: 14 March 1872 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
notes:8 children: Anna, William Orton, Burton,George Henry, Lydia Chestina, Guy, Charles Elmo, Delila
film #0890162 PROBATE RECORDS ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO

#1780 DATED 15Aug1872 last will and testament of Delilah Case late of Pierpont. Record of Wills Vol.C pg.495 film # 0890165 WILL BOOK C Delilah Case wrote her will 5 March 1872 leaving all to EA CASE-- 16 acres recieved at court 5Aug1872

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CHILD 7: JOHN TURNER
date and place of birth: February 1835 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
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date and place of death: 18 March 1837 Pierpont, Ashtabula, OH
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