1825 - 1864 (39 years)
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| Name |
Jesse Calvin Turnage |
| Birth |
1825 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
18 Jul 1864 |
| Burial |
Crowley Cemetery, Rayville, Ray County, Missouri, USA  |
| Person ID |
P65 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
18 Feb 2015 |
| Father |
Rev William Turnage, b. 7 May 1792, Greene County, North Carolina, USA d. 20 Feb, 1875, Ray County, Missouri, USA (Age 82 years) |
| Mother |
Martha Patsy Fletcher, b. 1795, Greene County, North Carolina, USA d. 1840, Ray County, Missouri, USA (Age 45 years) |
| Family ID |
F79 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Esther O'Dell, b. 21 Jan 1828, Ray County, Missouri, USA d. 27 Mar 1922, Ray County, Missouri, USA (Age 94 years) |
| Children |
| + | 1. Sultana Turnage, b. 27 Feb 1847 d. 18 Aug 1912 (Age 65 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural] |
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| Family ID |
F35 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 Oct 2014 |
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| Notes |
- From Internet [1]:
Jesse C. Turnage enrolled in the Missouri Militia October 2, 1862. The story goes that on 18 July 1864, 2LT Turnage was on leave and working in his fields in Ray County, Missouri. "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his gang of guerrillas came upon Turnage, and knowing his role in the Militia, tied him up and interrogated him. Anderson then decided that Turnage would die and a member of his gang cut the Soldier's throat. The story continues that the gang then went to the Turnage family home and forced Turnage's wife, Esther, to make them food.
A tragic story, but is it true? This incident took place in Ray County, Missouri, and I can find no copy of the local newspaper for that date. Library holdings stop a week prior to 18 July 1864. But such an event must have been recorded in the daily reports of the 51st EMM. The Cornell University Library has digitized the entire volume of The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. In this publication I was able to find a report dated 18 July 1864 from Joseph E. Black to Brigadier General Clinton B. Fisk. The report states in part:
"On the 18th they [guerrillas] passed northwest of Richmond, about seven miles from the city, murdering Lieutenant Turnage, of company D, Fifty-first Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia...Lieutenant Turnage was shot three times in the head and his throat was cut from ear to ear."
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