Edward Henry Turner

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/10/2010 at 23:10:45

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Edward Henry Turner
By Alma Hill Hennings

Edward Henry Turner was born March 10, 1831, at Utica, New York. He was the oldest son of Samuel Turner and Lucinda Warner, whose grandfather was General Warner, who fought with Washington during the Revolutionary War. He married Eliza Ann Smith, who was born March 9, 1839, at Urbana, Illinois.

Eliza Ann was the daughter of Jacob Smith and Margaret Jane Buchanan Beattie, and was a niece of President Buchanan. Eliza Ann came with her parents from Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1833, in a covered wagon drawn by oxen, to Urbana, Illinois.

After spending some time in Urbana, Mr and Mrs Turner traded their land for land at State Center, Iowa. But they were driven away by other claimants because they did not have proper legal papers. They spent some time in Hancock, Iowa, then moved to Woodbury County after learning of available homesteads and tree claims. They settled on 160 acres in Wolf Creek in Township 17.

Mr Turner was a school teacher in Story County, Iowa, so he spent much time away from home. Mrs Turner had the responsibility of managing the farm and family’s home. She and the family did the farming, raised the livestock, cared for the large orchard and garden, and tended the business.

Mr Turner died in 1894; Mrs Turner died in 1904. Both were buried at State Center, Iowa.

The Turner children were: John Edward, born 1851; Emma Mary, born 1861; Eudora Jane, born 1863, died 1863; Charlotte Emergene, born 1865, died 1947; Beattie Elsworth, born 1868, died 1869; Ella Esther, born 1872, died 1963; William Ryborn, born 1876, died 1950; and Charles Frederick, born 1880, died 1936.