Alexander Turner and Rachael A. Reagle

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Husband Alexander Turner ¹

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           Born: 18 Jan 1825 - Lake Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Turner (1801-1874) 2 3
         Mother: Martha Hunter (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 26 Oct 1848 4

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Wife Rachael A. Reagle ⁴

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         Father: Abram Reagle (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 F Martha M. Turner ⁴

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           Born: 29 Aug 1849 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: James C. Mossford (      -      ) 4

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2 M James S. Turner ⁵

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           Born: 26 Oct 1850 5
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         Spouse: Jennie Enos (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1875 5

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3 F Mary J. Turner ⁵

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           Born: 19 Dec 1851 5
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         Spouse: Adam Reagle, Jr. (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1868 5

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4 F Nancy E. Turner ^{5 6}

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           Born: 15 May 1853 5
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         Spouse: William Wilson Wible (1845-      ) 5 6 7

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5 M John G. Turner ⁵

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           Born: 6 May 1855 5
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6 F Rhoda A. Turner ⁸

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           Born: 9 Jan 1858 8
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         Spouse: William R. Gourley (      -      ) 8

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7 F Roxana W. Turner ⁸

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           Born: 18 Apr 1860 8
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         Spouse: Charles F. Emery (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 1880 8

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8 F Laura M. Turner ⁸

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           Born: 10 Aug 1863 8
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         Spouse: Joseph Robert King (1861-      ) 8 9
           Marr: 25 Dec 1884 8

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9 M Nathan W. Turner ⁸

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           Born: 25 Sep 1867 8
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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Turner

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He was born on the farm on which his father first settled, in Lake township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, near the head of Sandy Lake. That farm was not exceptionally rich, yet it produced abundant crops of copperheads and rattlesnakes. "I saw my father kill a very large one that had crawled into the house during the night. Father had a dog that was very appropriately named 'Nailer,'-'he was death on snakes.' He would seize them by the middle and shake them till they would crack around his ears like whips. One shaking was enough for the toughest snake." When he was six years old his father removed to Worth township. Here blacksnakes seven and eight feet long, were abundant. When about eight years old he first attended a school, taught by Reuben York. When a lad of fourteen he lost his health and was sick for four or five years from going in bathing "when his blood was heated." The family physician, Dr. Nathan Wilson, who treated him with some success, advised him, on account of his health, to learn the Tanner and Currier trade. Being then about nineteen he went to learn the trade with a country tanner by the name of Mathew Young. This Young had also a farm and at times he would set his apprentice to work on it - who got very angry when and told him that he had already served an apprenticeship at that business under my father. He remained there a year and four months.
After a few weeks he went with cousin James Aull to visit relatives of his mother, living near Ravenna, Ohio. While there he worked at his trade for a couple of months, with John Alexander. He then worked eighteen months with John Gillis. Then he came home and attended a three month's term of school, when he returned and worked nine months more for Mr. Gillis, principally at currying and finishing leather. He then worked a short time for a Mr. Jacob Sowash living near Clintonville, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
After this he started a tannery of his own which he ran for seven years but for want of capital to stock it up properly it did not pay, and he abandoned the shop and moved onto a farm of fifty acres that his father had given him. He then spent the greater portion of his time for the next twenty-five years doing journey work.

1 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 42.

2 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 41.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 180.

4 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 44.

5 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 45.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 393.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 450.

8 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 46.

9 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1026.