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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jesse S. TURNER: Birth: 1828 in Cleveland, Habersham, (now White), GA.

  2. John TURNER: Birth: ABT 1830 in Habersham (now White) Co., GA.

  3. Sarah J. J. TURNER: Birth: 1831 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  4. James C. TURNER: Birth: 1832 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  5. Hiram TURNER: Birth: 1834 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  6. Selia or Cealy TURNER: Birth: ABT 1835 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  7. William F. TURNER: Birth: 1836 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  8. Nancy E. TURNER: Birth: 1838 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  9. Hariett L. TURNER: Birth: 1846 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.

  10. Emily TURNER: Birth: 1855 in Frogtown, Lumpkin, GA, USA.


Sources
1. Title:   US Census: 1860, GA, Lumpkin Co.

Notes
a. Continued:   Some sources say he was born in Edgefield Co., SC.
  Jesse settled in Frogtown, Lumpkin Co., GA. He lived in the vicinity of Turner's Corner, a narrow valley where the county lines of Lumpkin, Union, and White converge. He was a Union sympathizer in the Civil War. In his mid-50's, he merely stated that he wished the Union had not dissolved. For this, the Home Guard lynched him. He was dragged from his cabin one night, and hanged from a tree.
  This resulted in his relative James deserting the Confederate Army, and coming home to join a company of Unionist Guerrillas. Likewise, his nephew William Pruitt Turner of Union Co., age 13, also joined the movement.
  The Home Guard was notorious in northeasern GA for lynching, and plundering food and livestock. Often they would lynch a man on sight, if he appeared draft age yet was not serving in the war; or if he were merely related to a Unionist.


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