TURNER, ARCHIBALD, was born June 11, 1750, in Ireland. He was the youngest of twelve children, all the others having died in infancy. He came to America when he was more than thirty years of age, and was married about 1790, on James River, Virginia to Rachel (???). They had five children in Virginia, and Mrs. Rachel Turner died July 29, 1818. He moved with his children to the Wabash valley, Indiana, where he was married to Catherine White, also a native of Ireland. They had two children in Indiana, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1820 or '21. Of his children--

MARY, born Nov. 8, 1797, in Virginia, married in Indiana to William Harvey, moved to Christian county, Illinois, raised a family, and she died about 1869.

JOHN, born Oct. 7, 1799, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Esther McMurry. They had seven children, and he died. Their son, Archibald Turner, lives in Springfield, Illinois.

ESTHER, born August 21, 1801, in Virginia, married in Indiana to Daniel McCaskill, moved to Brown county, Illinois, where the parents died, leaving a large family. Their son, JOHN, is a physician in Colorado, and their son, ARCHER, is a Methodist preacher.

MARK, born Oct. 3, 1803, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Elvira Bell. They had three children, moved to Decatur, where he died about 1855, and his widow died the next year.

ARCHIBALD, Jun., born July 1, 1808, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Lemons, moved to Washington county, Illinois, and died there in 1871. He was a local preacher in the M. E. church.

By the second wife:

HUGH, born February, 1816, in Indiana, married in Christian county, Illinois, to Elizabeth Stokes, and had eight children in Sangamon county. DAVID A., born Sept. 28, 1839, married Elizabeth Littrell, had one child, EDWARD, who died, aged seven years. They live near Pawnee, Illinois. JAMES W., born Dec. 20, 1841, married Lutheria Huston, and live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois. SARAH C., born April 14, 1844, married William M. Young, have five children, and live near Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. GEORGE W., born March 21, 1847, lives near Edinburg, Illinois. ELIZA J., born Feb. 9, 1849, married Nov. 25, 1868, to Charles W. Ewell. See his name. JOHN H., born Jan. 21, 1851. ROBERT, born July, 17, 1853. ELIZABETH, born April 7, 1857, and MARY A., born April 30, 1859, reside at the family homestead, four miles west of Springfield. Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth Turner died April 7, 1870, and Hugh Turner died Dec. 14, 1872.

JAMES, born Jan. 26, 1818, in Indiana, married Oct. 25, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth A. Earnest. They had two children, SALOME O., born Nov. 10, 1849, married Jacob E. Ingalls. See his name. NOAH H., born Nov. 7, 1851, lives with his mother. James Turner died Oct. 22, 1853, and his widow married Henry B. Chambers. See his name.

Archibald Turner died June 29, 1855, aged one hundred and five years and eighteen days. His widow, Mrs Catherine Turner, died May 10, 1870, both near where they settled in 1820 or '21, four miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

Archibald Turner was raised by Presbyterian parents, and was thoroughly trained in the Westminster Confession of Faith and larger Catechism. He became dissipated in early life, but while living in Indiana he was converted at a camp-meeting, and for the last fifty years of his life was a devoted Christian. Near the close of his pilgrimage of more than a century his memory failed on all current events, but he could repeat correctly passages of the catechism, and the prayers that his mother had taught him in childhood.