George Turner was an 1831 graduate of the United Stares Military Academy. A longtime prominent farmer in Jefferson County, Va. George Turner owned the Wheatland Plantation located just south of Charles Town, Va. During the John Brown raid on the United States arsenal in Harpers Ferry, he was killed defending the town against the raiders. Mr. Turner was also a cousin to Lt. Colonel John Augustine Washington, close friend and aide to Gen Robert E. Lee.
George Turner was an 1831 graduate of the United Stares Military Academy. A longtime prominent farmer in Jefferson County, Va. George Turner owned the Wheatland Plantation located just south of Charles Town, Va. During the John Brown raid on the United States arsenal in Harpers Ferry, he was killed defending the town against the raiders. Mr. Turner was also a cousin to Lt. Colonel John Augustine Washington, close friend and aide to Gen Robert E. Lee.
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GEORGE W. TURNER
born at
Wheatland in the County of Jefferson
Jany. 11th 1814.
Graduated at West Point 1831,
and fell nobly maintaining the
rights of his State at
Harper's Ferry, Octr. 17th 1859.
This slab is reared by his family in
reflection of the remembrance of his
virtues and his patriotism.
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