Jacob TURNBAUGH
Birth:
22 May 1818
Lebanon, Marion, Kentucky
Death:
11 Jan 1903
Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois
Marriage:
2 Jul 1836
Pike, Illinois
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Sources:
GEDCOM file imported on 11 Jun 1999.
Notes:
Information for this family was obtained from (1) Thompson, Jess , History of Pike county, Illinois, chap 177, (2) U. S. census 1830, Lincoln co unty, Missouri, (3) U. S. census 1850, Pike county, Illinois page 436, (4 ) personal records of William Edward Turnbaugh of Galatia, Illinois, (5) tombsto ne of wife obtained from Lora White by correspondence. This family was submitte d to the temple for ordinances by Berta Ethel Young Olsen, a cousin of Jacob. In the summer of 1836, the first house was built in what is no w the village of Pleasant Hill, then known as Fairfield. This house, a lo g cabin, was built by Jacob Turnbaugh as a home to which to take his bride, fo rmerly Abigail Collard, whom he had married in July. Jacob was the second s on of George Turnbaugh, who brought his family to Pleasant Hill township i n 1827. Jacob and his older brother, John, were born in Kentucky, Jacob in 18 18, the year Illinois became a state. When Jacob was nine years old, the fam ily moved from Lincoln county, Missouri, to Pleasant Hill township. They cross ed the Mississippi River at Clarksville, then a town of only fifteen or twen ty houses, and drove their ox teams across the bottoms to where the town of Plea sant Hill now stands. On March 6, 1827, George Turnbaugh, with the help of Abs olem McLean and Joe Gipson, two of his Missouri neighbors, began the erect ion of a log cabin to serve as a home for his family. When the Turnbaughs fir st arrived in Pleasant Hill township the site of the future village of Pleasan t Hill was a dense thicket known as "Bear Thicket" because of the great number o f bears that roamed through it. Jacob's son, W. E. Turnbaugh lived at Galati a, Illinois; he has a son, Frank Turnbaugh of Pleasant Hill. Jacob's f irst cousin, Rachel D. Turnbaugh, married John Newton Collard, MRIN 74.
Abigail H. COLLARD
Birth:
21 Feb 1819
Lincoln, Missouri
Death:
6 Jul 1869
of Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
GEDCOM file imported on 11 Jun 1999.
Notes:
Abigail married 2 Jul 1837 to Jacob Turnbaugh.
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Jacob Turnbaugh - Abigail H. Collard
Jacob Turnbaugh
was born at Lebanon, Marion, Kentucky 22 May 1818.
He married Abigail H. Collard 2 Jul 1836 at Pike, Illinois . Abigail H. Collard was born at Lincoln, Missouri 21 Feb 1819 daughter of Joseph Collard and Mary Null .
Jacob Turnbaugh died 11 Jan 1903 at Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois .
Abigail H. Collard died 6 Jul 1869 at of Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois .