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This tree has image of the Turley Reunion typed text from the 7th Annual Turley Reunion held 4 September 1927 with the biography of David Harrison Turley, son of David and Polly Ribelin Turley.
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- Turley Reunion
The Seventh Annual Turley Reunion was held Sunday, September 4, 1927 at the beautiful country home of Mrs. Rose Watson. The following family history was written and read by Mrs. Watson.
David Harrison, son of David and Polly Ribelin Turley, was born August 31, 1815 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near Mt. Sterling. Left with a large family of children to support, she held the reins of government in strong capable hands and with much hard labor, self denial, and rigorous discipline, she reared a family of good Christian men and women.
He was a saddler by trade, making and trimming the saddles in wonderful geometric designs to meet the designs of the times. He united with and was baptized into the old Christian Church at Corinth, Kentucky when he was 17 years old.
At the age of 23 with two brothers, William and John, he started out to seek his fortune. His sister, Polly Ann, had married Thomas McNabb and moved to Indiana. He came to her home in Morgan County, his brothers located and making homes. William in Illinois and John in Missouri. In a short time he met and wooed Elizabeth McNabb to whom he was married July 12, 1838.
For several years they lived on a forty acre farm inherited by his wife, where most of their family of eight children were born. The children were Sarah Jane, Rebecca, John, Mary Elizabeth, Andrew J., David H., Martha, and Margaret Alice. He then bought the farm of 136 acres of Daniel Vert and moved into the log house standing on it. Here Elizbeth died October 24, 1855, and the motherless family struggled on until January 8, 1857 when he married Susan Virginia House.
He must have had a wonderful personality, when I think how he, a widower of 41 years with a family of 8 children, ranging from 15 years to a few months in age, could win the heart of a 19 year old girl, and hold it all through the succeeding years of their life together. To gain her parent’s consent to the marriage of their youngest child, I am amazed and wonder how he did it. Nevertheless it was accomplished and another family of children was added to the first.
Jane married, but Cora came to fill her place, then came Colona, whom we always called Joe, Honors, Leora, Katherine and Rose. And finally the long looked for son, Willis, whom everyone called “Brother”. Sometime after the second marriage the brick house was built and the family moved in, and from that time on, this house was a center of hospitality in the neighborhood.
Some years after coming to Indiana he changed his membership to the church called “Friendship”, where he and his family worshipped and he served as a Deacon until October 28, 1888, when they came to Mt. Gilead. His home was always open to the ministers of both churches and Family Prayer and Grace at meals were regular institutions for several years before his death.
He was very quiet self contained man. Just twice in my life did I see him give way to emotion. Once when his favorite brother, John, died very suddenly at his home in Missouri and the other when my little seven year old brother, the only son of his second marriage and the pride and hope of his old age, was taken away. He was very temperate in all things. His maxim was to always leave the table when a little hungry and I never knew him to suffer from indigestion, and at the time of his death his hearing was good. He used glasses only to read and he was the proud possessor of all of his teeth but one.
I have heard him tell how when he was a boy, whiskey was place on the table.
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- Turley Family Records. Compiled by Beth Mitchel, et al. Published by the Turley Family Historical Research Association, 1981. Pages 349-350.
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52. DAVID2 TURLEY (Jamesl) was born 26 December 1783, probably in Henry County, Virginia. He married about 1805 Mary (Polly), daughter of William and Mary Ribelin of Montgomery County, Kentucky. She was born 15 October 1784 in Virginia, and died 23 February 1866 in Montgomery County, Kentucky. David Turley probably died in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1825.
In 1795 when David Turley, the oldest son of James and Agnes Turley, was twelve he probably moved with his parents to the present Montgomery County, Kentucky. In 1804 when he was twenty-one he was first taxed in Montgomery County. He owned no land, no slaves and one horse. He continued to be taxed yearly through 1823 with the exception of 1814 and 1816. Occasionally he owned as many as four horses. He never owned slaves. Only in 1815 was David Turley taxed as a land owner. This land was described on the tax list that year as thirty acres on Harper's Creek, entered by John Barton. On 1 November 1811 David Turley sold lot 24 in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, to Edward Roberts for $102.00. It is not known when David Turley acquired the lot or why he was not taxed on it.
David Turley was listed in the 1810 and 1820 census for Montgomery County, Kentucky. The listings and age categories for each year agree with the known structure of David and Polly Turley's family with one exception. In 1810 a male 16-26, born 1784-1794, was living in their household. This person is thought to be David's younger brother, William Turley, who was born in 1791 and who later married Polly's sister, Elizabeth Ribelin.
On 20 January 1825 David and Polly Turley, along with other heirs of William Ribelin, were ordered by the Montgomery County, Kentucky, Circuit Court to convey land on Slate Creek, a fork of the Licking River, to William Payne. The final settlement of William Ribelin's estate did not take place until 9 January 1831. Polly Turley was named as an heir.
Polly Turley received fourteen acres of land on Slate Creek as her share of her father's estate, for which she was taxed in 1825 and 1826. On 29 September 1831 she bought thirty-three acres on Slate Creek from John Ribelin and Jane, his wife. Polly Turley was taxed on this land 1829-1831. On 12 August 1840 Polly bought twelve acres, two rods, twenty-nine poles of land on Slate Creek from Samuel Shultz.
In 1830 Polly Turley was listed in the Montgomery County, Kentucky, census as the head of a household. In 1850 and 1860 she was living in Montgomery County with her son Willis Turley.
When Polly Turley died her son James Turley was executor of her estate.121 Her heirs were listed as: W. W. Payne and Elizabeth, William Turley of Illinois, D. Harrison Turley and Polly Ann McNabb of Indiana, John Turley of Missouri, Willis Turley, John Shultz, only son of her deceased daughter, Lucy Shultz, and James Turley.
In 1927 at a reunion of the descendants of Polly Turley's son, David Harrison Turley, it was said of Polly that she was "...a most estimable woman. Left with a large family of children to support, she held the reins of government in strong capable hands and with much hard labor, self denial and rigourous discipline she reared a family of good Christian men and women."
Children of David and Polly (Ribelin) Turley
James Turley b. 6 December 1806
Elizabeth Turley b. 30 September 1808
Lucy Turley b. c. 1810
Polly Ann Turley b. c. 1812, m. Thomas McNabb, b. 1810, Kentucky moved to Morgan County, Indiana.
William R. Turley b. 1813
David Harrison Turley b. 31 August 1815
John Turley b. c. 1819
Willis Turley b. c. 1821
Martin L. Turley b. 1823-1825
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