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Joseph W.  Turner May 13, 1851 -
Ohio County KyArchives Biography

Author: Hartford Republican Newspaper

HARTFORD REPUBLICAN
FEBRUARY 26, 1892

                              JOSEPH W. TURNER

	About the year 1840 George Turner and wife moved from Adair to this county.  They were the parents of nine children, Joseph W., the next to the youngest was born May 13, 1851.  Of the nine only three are living, a sister Einnie, living in Tennessee, L. P., living near Newville, and the subject of this notice, living near Buford.  His father died in 1861, and his oldest brother, who had enlisted in the Federal army, died at Calhoon, in 1862, so that his mother was left alone with only the assistance of her two small, but brave little boys.  The struggle was a hard one, but our hero was equal to the task.  No educational advantages at all were afforded him in early life, and he acquired his learing after he had passed his twentieth year.  He attended a school in Daviess county, in the winters of 1871-72, under the tutorship of our esteemed fellow-citizen, J. C. Riley.  In the fall of 1872, Mr. Turner began teaching in the common schools, and taught the greater part of six years in various localities of the county, spending, however, a part of the time attending school as a student.
	He was married on December 28, 1876, to Miss Mattie, only daughter of Barnett Hudson.  Mrs. Turner is an accomplished woman, and the union has been a happy one.  They have three children living and one dead.  The living are all three boys - Oscar, Homer and Ellis.  Mr. Turner has always been a farmer, save the six years he was a teacher.  He is a member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and is a Democrat.  In August, 1890, he was elected Justice of the Peace, for the Buford Magisterial District, and is making an able and conservative officer.


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