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Marriage: Children:
  1. John Jarrett TURNER: Birth: ABT 1871 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: in Union or White Co., GA

  2. William Thomas TURNER: Birth: 16 Mar 1872 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: 12 May 1932 in Canton, Haywood, NC, USA

  3. David M. TURNER: Birth: 12 Oct 1874 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: ABT 1896 in , Union, GA, USA

  4. James Lon TURNER: Birth: 21 Feb 1875 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: 1972 in Arkaquah, Union, GA, USA

  5. Sarah Ann TURNER: Birth: 25 Oct 1876 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: 7 Nov 1962 in , Union, GA, USA

  6. Nancy L. TURNER: Birth: 1879 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: in , Union, GA, USA

  7. Mary Marinda TURNER: Birth: 1880 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: AFT 1900 in Dalton,Whitfield,GA, USA

  8. Julius C. TURNER: Birth: 1882 in Frogtown, White, GA, USA. Death: 1947 in , Polk, TN, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Family history as handed down by his son Lon Turner, and grandson John Turner.
2. Title:   Grave on private property near Turner's Corner, White Co., GA
3. Title:   US Census: 1860, GA, Union Co.
4. Title:   US Census: 1870, GA, White Co.
5. Title:   US Census: 1880, GA, White Co.
6. Title:   Nat. Park Ser., Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Publication:   http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm

Notes
a. Note:   , he enlisted in the Union forces at age 13. He first served locally in the 1st Georgia Volunteers, Co. A, (which were Unionist guerillas,) as Pvt. William Turner. His name was on a company roster found in Minnesota in the 1990's, whereon he had signed his name "William Tuner." (His uncle James Turner also enlisted, due to the lynching of his brother Jesse by the Home Guard.) This company, and similar ones across Northern Georgia, were promised US Army benefits after the war, but these never came. In fact, these men who survived were never recognized officially by the US Government after the war, since the secrecy of their records resulted in obscurity until nearly 130 years later.
  He then served in the Union's 5th Tennessee Mounted Infantry, Co. F, Listed as Pvt. William P. Turner. He did receive official historical recognition for this service.
  HISTORIC FACTS FROM THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE:
  UNION TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS:
 5th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry
 Organized at Cleveland, Nashville, Calhoun and Chattanooga, Tenn., September 23, 1864. Attached to District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, and garrison duty in that District and at Dalton and Marietta, Ga., till July, 1865. Skirmish at McLemore's Cove, Ga., February 1, 1865. Expedition from Dalton to Coosawattie River and Spring Place, Ga., April 1-4. Mustered out July 17, 1865.
  William Pruitt Turner was named after Rev. William Pruitt, a minister in the neighborhood of Choestoe, Union Co., GA. His cousin John Pruitt Collins, born the same year, was named for Rev. John Pruitt. (Rev. John Pruitt was Rev. William Pruitt's brother, and also a nearby minister.)
  When William "Bill" Turner was 5, his father died. In 1868 at age 16, Bill traded his inherited portion of his father's land in Choestoe for a horse and bridle, and rode back across Blood Mountain to White Co., where he had grandparents and many relatives. (White Co. was formerly part of Habersham Co. when his grandparents first settled there in 1820. It became White Co. in 1856.)
  On the 1870 Census at age 17, he is still in White Co., living on the farm of a William and Caroline Turner in the Shoal Creek community where he is listed as a farm laborer. They are apparently relatives, though the connection has not yet been determined. Nevertheless, they live in the same general area as his grandparents, Micajah (aka "McCager") and Nancy Turner. This older William may be William Pruitt Turner's first cousin, son of Henry Turner (brother to Jarrett.)
  Bill surely met Mary Ann Harkins in Choestoe in Union Co., where they born were born. But they were coincidentially living near each other in White Co. in the 1870 Census; (her widowed mother had moved there from Choestoe with Mary Ann and her sister.) We do know they were married on December 24, 1870, in White Co.
  On the 1880 Census, William and Mary Ann lived in the community of Town Creek, White Co., GA. [Year: 1880; Census Place: Town Creek, White, Georgia; Roll: T9_171; Family History Film: 1254171; Page: 521D; Enumeration District: 189; Image: 0427.]
  When he died young (age 37), Mary Ann took the children and moved back to Union Co. to be near her folks. Bill is buried in the now-obscure Old Toll Road Cemetery in White Co., near Turner's Corner. The main thoroughfare from Cleveland, over Blood Mtn. via Tesnatee Gap, to Union Co., used to be the Logan Turnpike. There was a church along the road, and this was its cemetery. The cemetery is now on private property.
  NOTES FROM CLIFF TURNER:
  Union County records show W. P. Turner and Mary A. Harkins being married in December 1870, by Justice of the Peace F. M. Swain. Thus they were married there, before making their exodus to White Co. (This is confusing since they both are listed at separate residences on the 1870 Census of White Co., months prior to their marriage back in their home county.)
  Being one of the youngest of Jarrett's children, "Bill" did not receive his inheritance until his mother died in 1867. There is also some evidence that Bill participated in a Union guerilla company during the last 2 years of the Civil War.
  These points of reference may shed light on why he left Union County for White County, where several of his father's siblings' families lived.
  The mountain counties of Northern Georgia were not the place to be during the volatile years following the Civil War. All of Appalachia was a hotbed of divided loyalties throughout the Civil War era. Many families were displaced and terrorized for their loyalties, both Union and Southern, depending on just the particular part of a county that they lived in. These factors may help to explain why young Bill left Union Co., a long-running family mystery. Moreover, he had grandparents and other kin in White Co., just over the mountain pass.
  Of the Turners of White Co. vs. Union County... Bill's father Jarrett is the only documented child of Micajah Turner who came "over the mountain" to Union County. The Georgia Land Lotteries of the early 1800s are what brought Micajah and family to Georgia in the first place. Georgia was the only state to use the lottery system for distributing land after the removal of the Cherokee and neighboring tribes. Many families migrated from Virginia and North Carolina, to NW South Carolina in the late 1700's and early 1800's, in expectation of the removal of the Indians from Georgia. In the "Gold and Land" Lottery of 1832 (the year that the Cherokee were removed from the area now called Union County), Thompson Collins drew/won land in the soon-to-be county. Jarrett Turner, Thompson's son-in-law, moved with his wife Sarah, and new baby daughter Celia to farm next to his father-in-law and family.
  Earlier, in the 1820 lottery, Micajah and Berry Turner won land in Habersham (the part which became the new county of White in 1856), which is when they moved there from Pendleton District, South Carolina.
Note:   Due to atrocities commited against his kin by the Confederate Home Guard during the Civil War


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