From Scotland to Robeson county NC to Georgia & Telfair and Appling counties. Fought in the civil war, married into the Hall family, gave land for railroad, also land and money for the Graham Methodist Church and Cemetery in Graham, Georgia.
From Scotland to Moore county NC, Cameron, NC, to Barbour County, Alabama.
1. Malcolm Turner born 1785 died in Cameron, NC, Nov 1853, was married to Isabella Curry Turner, born in Scotland 1787, died 1852. Both buried at Union Presbyterian Church 6 miles from Cameron. They had three sons:
1. Daniel m Lydia ______.
2. Dr. Hector Turner, b 3-16-1816, died 9-21-1896, attended medical school in New York City in 1847. Representative in the General Assembly from Moore County, NC. Practiced in Sanford, NC, buried at Cameron Presbyterian Church. There was a daughter Lula Turner 1870-1958 married Dr. John Monroe of Sanford.
3. Dr Alexander Turner b 6-15-1819 in Scotland, died 11-4-1899 at White Oak Springs, Alabama. Graduated from Philadelphia Medical College. Married Charlotte (Lottie) Gertrude Amy Carleton, b at Marshfield, VT, 4-7-1859, died in Barbour county, Alabama 10-1-1884. Married at Columbus, Georgia 2-14-1859.
Another Carlton girl married a Chapman in Georgia, and, when she died, Chapman married her sister.
Dr. Turner and Charlotte Carleton (My Gt Gt Grandparents), boarded with a Green Beauchamp in Clayton, Alabama. They bought land and built a country home and a school there. Gave land to the railroad so it could pass through. The Turners could ride anytime they wanted to. He and Charlotte Carleton Turner are buried at the old Bishop/Blair Cemetery at White Oak Springs, Alabama, four miles from Clayton. They sent their daughters, Bettie Isabella and Mary Ingalls Turner back east to go to college. They both married Dixon Lewis Blair - Bettie died in childbirth; Mary & Dixon of typhoid.
Wonder what Charlotte thought of the Civil War?