TURNER

    Surname(s): TURNER
    Submitted by: The Lozer’s
    e-mail:     lozer@fulton-net.com

    HUSBAND: TURNER, Sihon
    date and place of birth: 4 April 1756
    date and place of marriage: 4 May 1780
    other marriages:
    military service: American Rev.
    date and place of death: ca 1814
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    notes: In 1812 he bought land in the Ohio Western Reserve from the Ohio Land Co.
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    WIFE: RANDALL, Jane
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    CHILD 1: TURNER, Jepthiah
    date and place of birth: 23 December 1780
    married: ELLIS, Susannah (dau. Of Manoah and Susanna (LONG) ELLIS)
    date and place of marriage: 11 October 1805
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    military service:
    date and place of death: Williamsfield, Ohio 7 Nov. 1859.
    notes: He gave land for the First Cemetery of
    Pierpont where many of the early settlers were buried. This cemetery is
    gone but the records are in the A.C.G.S. files
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    CHILD 2: TURNER, Jess
    date and place of birth: 11 Apr 1782
    married: Marey (Polly), last name unknown. Polly d. 19 July 1815
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    other marriages: FRY (PRAY), Polly
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    date and place of death: 8th May 1836
    notes: According to an early Pierpont History by Lampson Wright.

    "Jesse, after due consideration with the Lord went to see Old Mr. (Pray). The old gentleman was in his field plowing and Jesse went to him and said, "You know that the Lord has taken away your youngest child and he will be quite likely to take you next if you don't let me have her for I believe it is His will, and I know it is mine." The old gentleman replied, "If it is your and Lord's will it is not mine." But jesse eventually married Polly, apparrently it was the will of the Lord. Very little is know about this large family.
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    CHILD 3: TURNER, Carmi
    date and place of birth: 24 Sep 1784
    married: HARSKELL, Polly
    date and place of marriage: 14 May 1807
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    date and place of death: 6 July 1842
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    CHILD 4: TURNER, Jane
    date and place of birth: 29 Aug 1786
    married: BEALS, Edson
    date and place of marriage: 2 Jan 1807
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    notes: Edson was a clergyman in the Universalist Church. they moved to New York State.
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    CHILD 5: TURNER, Sihon
    date and place of birth: 24 Nov 1788
    married: ELLIS, Sally
    date and place of marriage: 16 Feb 1809
    other marriages: Nancy Anna
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    Notes: Sally d. 30 Apr 1818 age 30 - buried in the First Pierpont cemetery. Their son, Sihon TURNER 2nd, b. c1815, m ca 1839 Susannah. He died 18 Mar 1878 in Ashtabula, Ashtabula Co., Ohio
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    CHILD 6: TURNER, Ruth
    date and place of birth: 11 May 1791 in Easton, Mass
    married: ELLIS, Cornelius
    date and place of marriage: 27 May 1812. He d. 20 Apr 1819
    other marriages: MORRISON, James
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    CHILD 7: TURNER, Patience
    date and place of birth: 1792
    married: LOOMIS, Horace
    date and place of marriage: 13 Dec 1815, Pierpont
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    NOTES: The TURNERs, among the first white settlers in Pierpont township, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, came from Massachusetts.