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The 4th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment, U.S.A. and the Internet

Saturday, July 10, 2010

My second great-grandfather Isaac Turner is my only ancestor (so far) to have fought on the Union side during the Civil War. My family is filled with Southerners, so it came as quite a shock when I found his index card in Ancestry’s Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 a couple [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday: Graham-Mason Cemetery

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Graham-Mason Cemetery is located 1 1/2 miles southeast of the little hamlet of Irene in Hill County, Texas. It contains less than 30 marked graves and is the final resting place of Jennie Margaret Melton, the wife of my great granduncle Francis Lee Turner. Jennie Turner was only 23 years old when she died in [...]

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Thanks again, Randy!

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings blog is one of my favorites. Why? Because he always has something that you can use. Now. Today. No pre-ordering needed! Case in point: yesterday’s blog post, Devier J. Smith in 1880 Agricultural Census. Somewhere in the back of my dusty and cob-webby brain I remembered that Ancestry has some “agricultural” census [...]

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Amanuensis Monday: The Turner Family Bible

Monday, April 12, 2010

Unfortunately, only four pages, remnants actually, remain of the Isaac Turner Family Bible. It must have been a wonderful old volume! The earliest entry is the 1855 marriage of Isaac Turner and Sarah Sharpe Vance, occurring in Cannon or DeKalb County, Tennessee. (click on image to enlarge) This certifies that Isaac Turner and S. S. [...]

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Women’s History Month, Day 11: Jennie Margaret (Melton) Turner

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jennie was the wife of my great granduncle Francis Lee Turner. Jennie & Frank were married 21 May 1882 in Hill County, Texas. Three children were born of this union: Mattie (27 June 1883), Lizzie (19 Oct 1884) and Baby Claudie (19 Apr 1887). Jennie unexpectedly died on 21 May 1887, her 5th wedding anniversary [...]

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