TRITES, Mrs. Harriet Turner

TRITES, TURNER, BIRD

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:21:51

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

MRS. HARRIET TURNER TRITES; P.O. De Witt; widow of Mr. Job Trites; resides in Sec. 14. Mr. Trites was born in New Brunswick in 1823; his parents removed to Harrison Co., Ohio, when he was a child; he came to De Witt Township about 1841. He married his present widow, Harriet Turner Trites, daughter of George William H. Turner, in 1842, and located on the farm where Mrs. Trites now lives in 1845; he enlisted in the 26th Iowa V. I.; was wounded at the battle of Arkansas Post, and died from the effects of his wounds at Memphis Feb. 14, 1863. Mrs. Trites has three children-Mrs. Nancy M. Bird, Lewis Cass and Edwin R.