Mrs. Isabel Barrett Turkington.
DAR #14810, Vol. 15, page 303.
Born in NY.
Wife of George E. Turkington.
Descendant of Jacob Barrett, of CT.
Daughter of Anthony Barrett and Sarah Ann Wilcoxen, his wife.
Granddaughter of Jacob Barrett and Jane Stranahan, his wife (1766-1814).
Jacob Barrett, (1764-1846), served as a substitute for his father, 1779. He reenlisted from Windham County in the CT Line, 1781-82. He was a pensioner from Fenner, NY, where he died.
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Find-a-GraveIsabel's first husband was John Marshall. According to family tradition, he was ill with tuberculosis and they ventured out to the Illinois wilderness in hopes that a change of climate and cleaner air would make him well. Mr. Marshall died. Isabel was apparently supporting herself as a seamstress between husbands.
She married George Edward Turkington, Sr., on 24 SEP 1861. They had two children: George Edward, Jr., and Anna Belle Turkington. She helped Anna Belle raise her grandson, John Oliver "Jack" Turkington from about the age of four years.
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Rockford Republic
December 28, 1929Rochelle, Dec. 28 Funeral arrangements are being completed today for Mrs. Isabella Turkington, 98, whose death came Friday a 11 a.m., following an illness of bronchial pneumonia of only a weeks duration, and thwarted her ambition to reach the age of 100. Her 99th birthday anniversary was to have been celebrated Jan. 7.
Mrs. Turkinstons 98 years have been interesting ones. Born Jan. 7, 1831, at Casonova, N.Y., she was married in early girlhood and came west as a bride, to be left a widow at the age of 18.
She came to Rochelle as a teacher in the public schools and was united in marriage to George D. Turkington on Sept. 16, 1861, on the wedding day of their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Antone Meyers, who together with her husband have preceded her in death.
A son, George, and a daughter, Anna, were her only children, and when her son died on June 23, 1929, her husband having passed away on May 25, 1905, she was left with her only daughter, Anna. She was also the surving child of the twelve children of Anthony Barrett and Sara Ann Wilcoxen.
The George D. Turkington family was well known in Northern, Illinois, her husband being among the builders of the first dam in Rockford in 1857 and later a section worker at Galena. He located in Rochelle, operating the Turkington hardware store located at the present site of the Maxson café.
At the time of the Civil war the Turkington hardware store was the center of a fiendish fire plot, which was designed to destroy all Rochelle, then only a few struggling homes and frame store buildings.
A confession of a confederate, Thomas Burke, revealed the kerosene soaked wood in the rear of the Turkington store which was to have destroyed the few frame buildings.
Later on June 7, 1861, Thomas Burke was executed by the citizens of Lane (Rochelle) and hanged from the only two story building in the village, the one adjoining the Turkington hardware store, now Peoples Loan and Trust bank building.
At the time of the death of George D. Turkington, he left his widow and two children valuable property and several buildings in the business district of this city, which will be divided among the present heirs.
The death of Mrs. Isabella Turkington closes a book of interesting pages of life the later years of which were lived in Rochelle where she has made many friends.
Mrs. Turkington, despite her old age has enjoyed excellent health and only last winter motored to Florida for a visit of several months with her daughter.
A daughter, Miss Anna, and the following grandchildren are the only relatives surviving: Mrs: Isabell Roderman: Mrs. Helen Rosencrans and her daughter, Betty of Omaha, Nebr.: George Turkington. Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif. And Jack Turkington who has resided here with his aunt and grandmother.
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George was born in Danbury, Connecticut. He was the third son of John Turkington, of Armagh county, Ireland, and Hannah Andrews.
He was a hotel clerk at an early age. He went into Rail Road Construction and was Captain of Co. H, 140th IL Infantry during the Civil War. He was a business man, town clerk and Secretary of Agricultural Society.
He was the second husband of Isabel Minerva Barrett. They were the parents of George Edward Turkington, Jr., and Anna Belle Turkington.
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Rockford Republic
May 28, 1904Rochelle Register: As a result of a long continued illness, George E. Turkington passed into the realms of the unknown at 5:30 oclock Wednesday afternoon. About two years ago, Captain Turkington had a severe siege of sickness but the attack which ended his [life] occurred about one week ago.
George E. Turkington was one of the few remaining members of the old guard of Rochelles early days, and was known by all of the older residents of this section of the state. For a half century and more he has been prominent in the business and social circles of our community and his taking away will remove a notable figure from our midst.
George E. Turkington was the son of John and Hannah (Andrews) Turkington, and was born in Danbury, Connecticut, June 4, 1827, where he resided until he was at least 25 years of age. In 1852 he came west and located at Rockford, where for a time he engaged in the railroad business. The following year he moved to Rochelle, which has since been his residence. For a long term of years he engaged in merchandising, with Thos. Padgett, dealing in hardware, in which he was very successful, and in which he accumulated a comfortable competency.
In 1861 he was united in marriage to Miss Isabel Marshall, who was born in Madison County, New York, Jan. 7, 1838, and two children, George E. and Anna Bell, together with the widow, survive.
In the early days of the civil war Mr. Turkington organized a company of infantry and finally went to the front as its captain in 1864, being assigned to Company H, 140th Illinois Infantry.
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Lawnridge cemetery
Anna Belle Turkington was the daughter of George Edward Turkington, Sr., a
nd Isabel Minerva BARRETT Marshall Turkington. She was the younger sister of George Edward Turkington, Jr.
Anna Bell took over running her father's business affairs, since her brother had moved to Nebraska. She and her mother also raised "Jack" Turkington, her brother's youngest child, since his mother was unable to do so.
She was a member of several hereditary societies, including the Mayflower Society and DAR.
Mrs. Beulah Barrett Owen.
DAR #77060, Vol. 78.
Born in Fenner, NY.
Wife of Judge Selwyn N. Owen.
Descendant of Jacob Barrett.
Daughter of Anthony Barrett (1800-1849) and Sarah Ann Wilcoxen (1802-1882), his 1st wife, married 1820.
Granddaughter of Jacob Barrett and Jane Stranahan (1766-1814), his 1st wife.
Jacob Barrett (1764-1846) served as substitute for his father, 1779. He re-enlisted from Windham County in the CT Line, 1781-1782. He was a pensioner from Fenner, NY, where he died. He was born in Killingly, CT.
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES - Fourth area man sits on Ohio Supreme Court
January 10 2008Selwyn N. Owen was born in 1836 in Steuben county, New York and was about six months old when his parents (Horatio and Clarissa Ransom Owen) settled in Norwich Township of Huron County. As soon as the railroad was built through that township and the village of Havana was established as a station, Horatio Owen established his home there and built a store and a grain warehouse.
For twenty years the Owen family prospered here. On October 6, 1860, Horatio Owen was raising a load of wheat to the top of the elevator via an incline plane which had a small car on it to carry the grain. As the loaded car went up the incline Mr. Owen was walking behind it when the rope broke and the care rolled back on him, killing him instantly.
Prior to this tragedy, Selwyn Owen had been enrolled at the Norwalk Institute, and then completed his literary education at Antioch College. At the Institute he was well-known as a debater and declaimer. For a time after this he was principal of seminary in Clark county, Kentucky. He then returned to Norwalk and studied law in the office of Jairus Kennan and Gideon Stewart. At that time a would-be attorney could study law and then go to law school, or could pass a test and be admitted to practice as an attorney.
Selwyn not only studied law in Norwalk; he also took courses at the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated in 1862. After practicing in Fremont for a year be made his home in Bryan, Ohio, his wife, nee Beulah Barrett. He enjoyed a large law practice there and also served as Common Pleas Judge from 1876 to 1883, when he was elected the Ohio Supreme Court.
His tenure on the Supreme Court lasted from December of 1883 to February of 1889. During the last three-and-a-half years he was Chief Justice to the Court. It was said if him that as a judge "his written opinions entitle him to rank the eminent jurists of Ohio."
After leaving the Court, Judge Owen made his home in Columbus, where he served two years as city law director. In 1893 he was appointed to the newly-formed State Board of Arbitration. He held this post for several years, and was considered useful in arbitration between employers and employees and thus averting strikes and other severe labor problems.Judge Owen died at Portland, Oregon, on October 1, 1913. (sic)
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Morning Oregonian
September 27, 1913Owen - In this city, at his late residence, 378 North 31st. st., September 26, Judge Selwyn N. Owen, aged 77 years.
At age 14 Dewitt was apprenticed to his father's cousin, Oramel Barrett, who conducted a printing establishment in Harrisburg, PA. After serving his apprenticeship, he went to Louisville, KY and later to Frankfort, about fifty miles distant. He was one of the editors of the Kentucky Yeoman and did considerable legislative copying.
Selden mastered the trade of bookbinding. In the early 1890s he moved to Washington, DC where his wife died and he suffered a paralytic stroke in 1894. He died two years later at the home of his brother Amos in Northumberland, PA.