Levi H. Turner

Levi H. Turner

• Levi H. Turner was born on 28 October 1809 in Virginia.
• He married Nancy Keithley, daughter of Levi Keithley and Fannie White, on 18 August 1831 in Ralls County, Missouri.
• Levi H. Turner and Nancy Keithley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Gilead Precinct, Calhoun County, Illinois. Other members of the household included George W. Turner. Also n the household were children Margaret (age 16), Levy (14), Edmond (10) and Eliza Jane (8), and four male laborers.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
• Levi H. Turner became a widower at the 7 January 1879 death of his wife Nancy Keithley.
• The following appeared in Washington County section of A. T. Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska, first published in 1882:
       L. H. Turner, proprietor Blair Mills, is a native of Culpeper County, Va. When a year old his parents removed to Clark County, Ky. At the age of thirteen he came to Missouri; in 1837 came to Calhoun County, Ill; there followed farming and lumbering till 1870, when he came to Blair. He owns the Blair Mills, which he assisted in building; he also owns five acres and seven lots with his residence, and other property in town; also 500 acres of land, part of which he cultivates; he has three children by a former marriage, and one child by his present marriage.
• Levi H. Turner died on 5 February 1892 at age 82 in Washington County, Nebraska.
• He was interred at Blair Cemetery, Blair, Washington County, Nebraska.
• The following appeared on 13 February 1892 in the Blair Courier: Saturday last the older class of citizens here were notified that Levi H. Turner, at one time one of the wealthiest gentlemen of this county, was dead. He died at Sheldon, this state, and his remains were brought here today for interment. [:CR;]      And now the story of a long and eventful life is being brought to the minds of some of the early settlers who still remain. [:CR;]      Mrs. Turner still resides in this city, and today she followed the remains of that once prosperous gentleman to the cemetery on the hill, and there was placed for all time the almost forgotten gentleman. But not so would it have been at one time, when he controlled the mills of this county and when his judgment was felt and looked for by the people here as none other could command. The Acme mills here and those in other parts of the county were owned by him. His money and influence passed into the hands of others, and the story goes that they benefitted little by gaining possession of it.

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