Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

JOHN H. TUREMAN, of Monroe Precinct, son of George and 
Elizabeth (Harbold) Tureman, was born November 6, 1828, on 
the Tureman homestead, Cass County. Of our subject, as a 
citizen and an agriculturist, the people of Cass County 
need little information. His thrift, energy and enterprise, 
duly accounts for the success he has thus far attained in 
life, and they may well look to him as an example of the 
opportunities their county affords to an industrous, frugal 
and legitimate tiller of the soil. Mr. Tureman is one of 
the oldest native born citizens of Cass County. His mother 
was a native of Pennsylvania, and his father a native of 
old Virginia, and both came to Kentucky with their parents 
early in life. The Harbolds settled about seven miles from
Louisville, and the Turemans in that vicinity. It was here 
that their marriage took place, and in the year 1820 thev 
settled on White River, in Indiana. There they remained 
until 1827, when they removed to Cass County, bought an 
improvement, and settled the present Tureman homestead, the 
home of our subject. Their first purchase was 80 acres, and 
to this, he from time to time added, until he had acquired 
in all about 600 acres. George Tureman was known as a man 
of untiring perseverance, progressive and temperate in his 
habits, independent in his methods and views, social in his 
nature, and shared the friendship and entire confidence of 
his pioneer acquaintances. They raised a family of twelve 
children, all of them are married and raised families, 
except David, the oldest, and Tracy, who died of 
consumption at 18 years of age. Eliza married William Carr, 
and settled with her husband near Rock Island, this State, 
where she died in 1838. Ann married James Cook, of Cass 
County, and are now both deceased. David was the next, and 
then George. Leonard married Mary Schaffer. Catharine 
married William Patterson, and lives in Jacksonville. 
Arsanoine and her husband, Cabal Paterson, moved to Oregon, 
where she died 23 years since. Our subject is the next.
Mary E. married James Alison, William went to Oregon,  
Tracy died of consumption at 18 years of age, Virginia 
married George Davis, and lives in Morgan County,  Mr.
Tureman died of cholera, in June 1835, in the fifty-second 
year of his age; Mrs. Tureman, his devoted wife, survived 
until 1869, and departed at 80 years of age.  John H.,
our subject, was married December 12, 1850, to Miss Mary J. 
Davis, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Foster) Davis, who 
came from Kentucky to Sangamon County as early as 1824.
They first located on an improvement, built a substantial 
log cabin, and planted about 15 acres of corn, but were 
soon, by fraudulent means, totally deprived of their home, 
and they then removed to Cass County. James Davis was a 
native of Kentucky, and his father, also James, was a 
soldier of the war of 1812, and died in the service.  Mrs. 
Tureman is the fifth child or third daughter of the family, 
and was born November 24, 1830. They have had three 
children.  Alice, who died an infant, April 1, 1852, 
Frances Parthenia, now Mrs. Hugh W. Harrison of Belleville, 
Saint Clair Co., Illinois, and John F., at home. David 
Cook, an orphan, has been considered a member of the family 
for about six years. Mr. Tureman's private estate comprises 
320 acres in his homestead and 400 acres in Logan County, 
this State.  Mrs. Tureman is a member of the Shiloh 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Tureman is a member 
of the Knights of Honor, of Virginia. A full page portrait 
of our subject appears elsewhere in this work.

Tureman Harbold Carr Cook Schaffer Patterson Paterson 
Alison Davis Foster Harrison 
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