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- !NOTES:Birth date from Powers vs. McEachern. In testimony, Martin W. Turner said he was 58 as of 11 Oct 1873. That calculates to 11 Oct 1815 for birth date;
!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg 67 w/William TURNER age 0-9 (1810/20)
"210001-12100-0-0";
!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg 48 w/William TURNER age 10-14 (1815/20);
!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 141 Martin TURNER age 20-29 (1810/20)
"00001-10001";
!DEED:18 Oct 1843 Marion Co., SC Deed Book S, p. 408
Mary TURNER wife of William TURNER, planter, of Marion District to Martin TURNER & Catherine PARKER of same place, for $40, release my dower right to all the lands of my husband or my third of land that I am lawfully entitled to as wife. Land lying on Catfish.
S: Mary (X) Turner.
Witnesses: B. MOODY, J. H. WHALEY
* NOTE: The above deed was probably made because Mary was William's 2nd wife, and she didn't want the children from the first wife to worry about her taking *their* inheritance.;
!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1268/1273
Martin Turner 34 Farmer, $- born Marion
Elizabeth 26
Frances 12
Cherry 10
Eli 8;
!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC Reedy Creek PO, # 1343/1330
M. W. Turner 44 mulatto, Farmer $5000/2000 SC
Isabella (sic), 42 mulatto
Frances 25 mulatto
Eli 16 mulatto
Elijah 11
M. Turner 2 (female), mulatto;
!COURT:17 Sep 1860 Marion County Court of Common Pleas. Martin W. TURNER, vs Robert J. GREGG, declaration in Prohibition. John BLACKMAN Sr said he knew John TURNER, grandfather of Martin W. TURNER as a free person of color and also Patience TURNER the grandmother of said Martin W. TRUNER that John TURNER was half white and half African, that Patience was judging from her color and from reputation one fourth African blood. The father of said Martin W. TURNER, who was a son of John and Patience was named William TURNER who married Catherine MARTIN a white woman and had several children including Martin W. TURNER, who is only one eighth African blood and of very good character ...;
!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Moody's Township, Cat Fish PO, # 2/2
Martin Turner 54, Farmer $1000/300 SC
Betsy 52 Keeping House;
!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co., SC Moody Township, # 252/252
Martin Turner, mulatto, 65, married, work on farm, SC-SC-SC
* wife listed with William Christmas family;
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