Stephen Turley
Stephen Turley (6 June 1786 – 22 December 1851) was one of the very first Euro-American settlers in what is known today as Lamine Township in Cooper County, Missouri.[1] He is also listed as a California pioneer in the California State Library Pioneer Record Index.[2] He was born in Rowan County, North Carolina of Benjamin Turley (1762-1812) and Nancy Ann Marllor Noland (1765-?). His family moved to Kentucky in the 1790s and in October 1809 he married Elizabeth Jones (1789-1880). In 1811, he and Elizabeth, his brothers Samuel (1790-1870) and Jesse (1801–1861), his father-in-law David Jones (1761-1838), and several others settled in LaMine.[3][4] The Turley brothers settled on the north side of the LaMine River just across from Chouteau Springs.[5]
He served as a private in the War of 1812 in the Missouri Militia under Lieutenant Colonel Dodge.[6]
In 1819 he was the first in Cooper County to be granted a license to operate a ferry across the LaMine River.[7][8][9]
In 1820 he purchased from F. Pasquine family and heirs their New Madrid Earthquakes Relief Certificate for $900,[10] which could be used toward the purchase of Public Land in the Territory of Missouri, and subsequently in 1824 and 1825 he acquired approximately 300 acres in the State of Missouri through the Federal Land Grant program under Presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams.[11]
From about 1827 to 1849, he participated with his brothers Jesse and Simeon (1809-1847) in transporting goods from Franklin, Missouri to Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico via wagon train on the Santa Fe Trail. In 1827, Stephen was one of the Commanders of the Guards of a very large wagon train caravan that left Independence, Missouri with 105 men and 53 wagons stretching over a mile long on the Santa Fe Trail.[12] In 1849, Stephen Turley and his eldest son Francis Marion Turley (1814-1849), who had been born in Cooper's Fort in Missouri, decided to break off from the Santa Fe Trail caravan at the Cimarron Trail branch and in Colorado joined the California Gold Rush on the California Trail. In the desert expanse of Utah and Nevada, Francis drank from a poison pool of water and died. He was laid to rest along the trail.[13][14]
Stephen's brother Simeon Turley established the Turley Mill and Distillery in Arroyo Hondo, Territory of New Mexico. The Turley Mill and Distillery was destroyed and Simeon was murdered in a battle of the Taos Revolt in 1847.[15] Stephen Turley participated in the California Gold Rush once again in 1851.[16] He died in 1851 and is buried in Mud Springs (El Dorado), California.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ Levens, Henry C.; Drake, Nathaniel M. (1876). A History of Cooper County, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri: Perrin & Smith. p. 154. Search this book on
- ↑ Turley, Stephen (1950). Pioneer Index File (1906-1934), A-Z; California History Room: MICROFILM 734; Roll Number: 48. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc. Retrieved 16 December 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Johnson, Wlliam Foreman (1919). History of Cooper County, Missouri. Topeka: Historical Publishing Co. p. 231. Search this book on
- ↑ Mitchell, Beth; Miller, Amelia F.; Turley Hetzler, Ruth Jean; Lindgren, Patricia Kelley; Carlisle, Denzil; Buck, Camellus Wilson; Smith, Mary Edna Mansfield; Smith, Gladys Harden; Isbell, Ray; Turley, Lester F. (1981). Turley Family Records. Alexandria, VA: Turley Family Historical Research Assoc. pp. 76–77. Search this book on
- ↑ Mitchell, Beth; Miller, Amelia F.; Turley Hetzler, Ruth Jean; Lindgren, Patricia Kelley; Carlisle, Denzil; Buck, Camellus Wilson; Smith, Mary Edna Mansfield; Smith, Gladys Harden; Isbell, Ray; Turley, Lester F. (1981). Turley Family Records. Alexandria, VA: Turley Family Historical Research Assoc. p. 80. Search this book on
- ↑ "Page 1 War of 1812 Service Record Index". Fold3. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ↑ Illustrated Atlas Map of Cooper County, Missouri. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Atlas Publishing Co. 1877. p. 11. Retrieved 5 February 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Levens, Henry C.; Drake, Nathaniel M. (1876). A History of Cooper County, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri: Perrin & Smith. p. 51. Search this book on
- ↑ Johnson, Wlliam Foreman (1919). History of Cooper County, Missouri. Topeka: Historical Publishing Co. p. 146. Search this book on
- ↑ "New Madrid Earthquakes Relief". history.house.gov.
- ↑ Family History Library, Salt Lake City (1819–1831). "Deed Records of Cooper County, Missouri". Microfilm #947030 (US & Canada Film). A–C: 197–199.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- ↑ Mitchell, Beth; Miller, Amelia F.; Turley Hetzler, Ruth Jean; Lindgren, Patricia Kelley; Carlisle, Denzil; Buck, Camellus Wilson; Smith, Mary Edna Mansfield; Smith, Gladys Harden; Isbell, Ray; Turley, Lester F. (1981). Turley Family Records. Alexandria, VA: Turley Family Historical Research Assoc. p. 78. Search this book on
- ↑ Mitchell, Beth; Miller, Amelia F.; Turley Hetzler, Ruth Jean; Lindgren, Patricia Kelley; Carlisle, Denzil; Buck, Camellus Wilson; Smith, Mary Edna Mansfield; Smith, Gladys Harden; Isbell, Ray; Turley, Lester F. (1981). Turley Family Records. Alexandria, VA: Turley Family Historical Research Assoc. p. 79. Search this book on
- ↑ "Francis Marion Turley". findagrave.com.
- ↑ Lyckman, Ernest (1988). "A Review of the Ranch, Trading Post, Mill and Distillery of Simeon Turley, Canoncito, Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, New Mexico, 1830-1847" (PDF). Ayer Y Hoy en Taos (6): 3–5. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ↑ Mitchell, Beth; Miller, Amelia F.; Turley Hetzler, Ruth Jean; Lindgren, Patricia Kelley; Carlisle, Denzil; Buck, Camellus Wilson; Smith, Mary Edna Mansfield; Smith, Gladys Harden; Isbell, Ray; Turley, Lester F. (1981). Turley Family Records. Alexandria, VA: Turley Family Historical Research Assoc. p. 79. Search this book on
- ↑ "Stephen Turley". Find a Grave.
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