John Turneaure [39088]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Birth Notes:

Birthplace could be Fabius, Onondaga,NY

John married Maria Mabie [39184] [MRIN: 551604094], daughter of Jacob Mabie [39265] and Mary Tallman [39198], on 12 Jan 1826.³⁸⁶ (Maria Mabie [39184] was born on 10 Jan 1806 in Delaware County, New York,³⁸⁶ died on 30 Jun 1889 in Milford, Dickinson County, Iowa, , , and was buried in Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin.)

  Marriage Notes:

John, his wife Maria, and children moved in 1832 to Crawford
County, Pennsylvania. John was one of founders of Spring &
Cussawago Baptist Church. In 1843 the family settled near
Belvidere, Boone, Illinois, and in 1846-1850 in Florence Twp.,
Stephenson Co., Illinois. The family moved to Illinois in two
covered wagons, carrying simple household furniture, a trunk
full of victuals, the parents and 8 children. John
Turrneaure's big house of quarried limestone, built in 1855 in
Florence Twp. is still standing. When Lincoln and Douglas held
their debate in Freeport, Illinois, John, who had the finest
carriage in the area, drove Lincoln from the railroad station
to the debate site. Some 20 or 25 years later the Lincoln
carriage was destroyed when the barn of Maria and John's son
Albert burned in Dickinson County Iowa. In 1869 John and
Maria, with their two unmarried children George and Peter and a
married son, Harrison, moved to Clinton, Wisconsin