Elisha Turner

Name Elisha Turner 363, GGGG Uncle Birth 1788, Georgia162 Death 1873, Poetry, Kaufman County, Texas162 Burial Campground Cemetery, Poetry, Kaufman County, Texas162,508 Burial Memo Section SN Residence 1807, Hopkins County, Kentucky144 Reside Memo 1807-Elijah Turner and Elisha Turner. Neither owned land. Elijah had one horse. Census 1830, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana374 Census Memo US Census. Males 7 white. Residence 1837, San Augustine County, Texas363 Land Purchase 22 Jul 1845, Turner's Point, Kaufman County, Texas Purchase Memo Awarded a patent to a league and a labor, (4,400 acres), of land in this area by President Anson Jones for service to the Republic of Texas. Residence 1847, Turner's Point, Kaufman County, Texas363 Census 1870, Turner's Point, Kaufman County, Texas367 Census Memo Us Census. Age 83. Reared by Uncle, Vardre Echols McBee and wife Jane Alexander350 Father unnamed Turner Mother Lucy (Lucinda) McBee
Notes
Parents unproven. Mother, Lucy McBee, is based on deduction. Note that Elisha gave his daughter Lucinda the middle name Magby, and early spelling of McBee. 508 Elisha, brother of Elijah, move to MS, LA and finally TX. A reference in a Kaufman TX county history seems to say that they were orphaned at an early age and raised by an uncle.143 Born in Georgia, orphaned at an early age and raised in SC by an uncle. Came to TX 1837, fought in Mexican War and in several Indian skirmishes. Married- Rachel Brandon & had several children. Lived in Kaufman County with his son, Zachariah. He is buried at Campground Cemetery in Poetry, a community he was instrumental in founding.162 After 1854 Elisha gave each of his five children 200 acres of land near Turner's Point, Texas.363 In 1876 the community name was changed from Turner's Point to Poetry.363
Military
Elisha fought in Mexican War and in several Indian skirmishes.162 He is consider a hero of the Texas War of Independence, and was awarded a League and a Labor (4,000 and 400 acres), of land for his war service to the new Republic of Texas. It was within this awarded land that Elisha established Turner’s Point, (later Poetry), Texas.
Research
Turners Point grew to be a considerable place, having several business and churches, including a three story hotel and saloon or dance hall. A town name including the word Point, at that time in Texas, indicated that it had cattle quartering facilities. It was the largest way stop on the stagecoach route between Dallas and Shreveport. The Town was destroyed by tornado, in the 1870s and rebuilt 1/2 mile east. In the 1890’s it was destroyed by fire. And again in the 1920’s was damaged by a tornado. The demise of Poetry was due to a railroad built six miles south, running through the town of Kaufman, However, today at the beginning of the 21st Century, Poetry is again growing as residential expansion from Dallas moves in. }
Spouses
1 Rachel Brandon365 Birth Tennessee Death bef 1830374
Children Samuel W.   Jincey Brandon (1811-1850)   Zachariah N. (1813-1867)   Lucinda Magby (1817-1871)   Cynthia Newman (~1818->1880)
2 Amelia Williams162,509, Book 1a Birth ca 1820367 Called Amy509, Book 1a
Notes
Had several children.162
Marriage 19 Jun 1864, Kaufman County, Texas509, Book 1a

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