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- THOMAS JEFFERSON TURLEY was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, 8 March 1816 and died in 1895 in Gallatin County, Kentucky. He moved with his parents to Gallatin County, Kentucky where he married Artemesia Graves Lillard who was born 8 June 1817. She was the daughter of Rev. David and Mary (Spencer) Lillard. Her father was for many years minister of the Ten Mile Baptist Church in Napoleon, Gallatin County. Artemesia was married in the 1830s to Willis Green and was a widow with three children when she married Thomas Jefferson Turley. The marriage bond was dated 6 September 1841 and the wedding was 7 September 1841. A settlement on her dower from the estate of her late husband was made in 1846. At that time she received a third of a tract of land on Eagle Creek and a slave named Caroline from his estate. Thomas Jefferson Turley was appointed guardian to the Green children: Anna Mary Green, David L. Green and John R. Green.
In a history of the Ten Mile Baptist Church it is stated that in October 1895, Artie Turley was "called home," to be followed a few weeks later by her husband.839 Her tombstone in the churchyard, however, bears the inscription that Artemesia Graves Lillard was born 8 June 1817 and died 27 October 1897. The date of death on Thomas Jefferson Turley's stone is 15 December 1895. The two marriages of Artemesia Graves Lillard are also listed on the stone.
In 1846 Thomas Jefferson Turley purchased ninety acres from Joseph Lillard; he also bought ninety acres on Little Sugar Creek from M. J. Williams in 1846. By 1851 when he sold his share in his father's estate to his brother, Joseph Turley,841 he had acquired 217 acres on Little Sugar Creek. In i860 he purchased from David L. Green, and wife, and John R. Green their rights and interests in two tracts of land on Eagle Creek. In addition he purchased a tract from Benjamin B. Spencer and his wife, formerly Anna Mary Green.844 The interests in the Lillard estate were purchased in 1866 and 1867. The land acquisitions continued until on the 1870 census, Thomas J. Turley had real estate valued at $20,000 and personal property of $8,000.
During the period from 1865-1870 a tremendous amount of money was put in circulation by the government and prices rose, making it a time of prosperity. The farmer was affected adversely by this, though, and the mounting inflation that continued into the seventies. All this was reflected with the number of transactions in land in the area of Kentucky where Thomas Jefferson Turley lived. By 1880 the situation had changed and the deed books reflected numerous transactions based on mortgages with the income from future crops involved. It was a difficult time in the Napoleon area.
At the March term of the Gallatin County Court in 1880, J. H.
McDanell and E. M. Holton were appointed appraisers of the personal estate of T. J. Turley, as presented to them by William Turley and William L. Richards, trustees of "said Turley." His deed of assignment to them for the benefit of his creditors excepted "therefrom as much of said personal property as was exempt and set apart." The appraisal was made 1 April 1880 and a value given of $1114.75.
In 1883 three tracts of land were sold: the sixty-eight acres on the Cincinnati Road, Lot 8 in Napoleon, and 178 acres on Cincinnati Road. The tracts were sold by the Commissioners of Deeds and William Turley as Trustee.
In the 1880 census five children with the surname Walls were living with Artemesia and Thomas J. Turley. They were Susie Walls, age thirteen, Roberta Walls, age eleven, Annie Walls age nine, T.J. Walls, age seven and Jannie Walls, age five. These children were listed as grandchildren. This would seem to indicate the death of a daughter and son-in-law. Artemesia, born about 1845, was the daughter.
The son of Thomas Jefferson and Artemesia, Thomas Jefferson Turley, II, died in 1883. His son, Thomas Jefferson Turley, III, was just a boy and he was raised by his grandfather. According to Leoard Turley, son of Thomas Jefferson Turley, III, "His grandfather was almost a father for dad, who followed him around over the farm in Montgomery County, Kentucky, almost everywhere he went and to the mill, on horseback, when he took corn to be ground into meal. His grandfather told him stories about the family, which had been handed down to him through his own grandfather, this same James Turley b. 1761, he said. That is that James' father William, with his brother James and a sister... came over from Wales in the early seventeen hundreds and settled in Virginia, later Culpepper County. This is the origin of the tradition that the line came from Wales - a tradition unique to the line of William^ (Jamesl).
A list of the property of the estate of Thomas Jefferson Turley, deceased, as appraised was submitted 23 December 1895 to the Gallatin County Court by the appraisers, J. L. Henrix, Elijah Hogan and J. T. Robinson. A sale was held 4 January 1896 and was recorded at the March term of court that year. The estate included farm animals and equipment in addition to household items.
Children of Thomas Jefferson and Artemesia Graves (Lillard)Turley:854
William J. (Joe) Turley b. 7 September 1843
Artemesia Turley b. c. 1845
Thomas Jefferson Turley, II, b. 1848
James Samuel Turley b, c. 1851
Franklin Pierce Turley 5". c. 1852
America J. Turley b. c. 1855
Betty R. Turley b. c. 1860
Turley Family Records, page 385-387.
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