Joseph Addison Turner, buried in an unmarked grave in Pine Grove Cemetery, Section 1, Division A, Lot 97, in Eatonton, GA. Also buried on that lot in unmarked graves are his wife Louisa Jane Dennis Turner,April 20, 1830 - Sept. 5, 1877; twin infant daughters Hattie and Fannie who died at age 3 months in 1868 (shortly after their father's death) and a son Michael Dennis Turner, April 17, 1857 - July 8, 1885. This data is from the Turner Family Bible, contemporary obituaries and from J.A. and Louisa Jane Turner's surviving children before their deaths. From James Marshall - Putnam Cty Historical Society.
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Joseph Addison was born Sep 26, 1826. He spent one term at Emory College in 1845. In 1846 he was elected principal of the Phoenix Academy, then an institution of much prominence in middle Georgia. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, after reading law with Colonel Julius Wingfield.
He first began to write in 1846, and in 1847 published a volume entitled Kemble's Poems, juvenile productions, written while in his teens, but which showed considerable talent. In 1848 he was a regular contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger and the Southern Literary Gazette. In 1849 he practiced law with Colonel Wingfield, returning to his farm every night. In 1850 he married Louisa Dennis, daughter of Michael Dennis, of Eatonton, and moved to that place to live. In 1852 he moved to the country, having bought a plantation adjoining the old homestead at Turnwold. The next few years were spent in farming, practicing law and literary pursuits. Among the many periodicals for which he wrote at this time were De Bow's Review, Southern Literary Messenger, Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine - the article on Georgia in Lippincott's Gazeteer of the World, the Cyclopedia of Commerce, and the new American Encyclopedia having been condensed in part from the article on the same subject in De Bow's Review.
In 1855 he established in Eatonton the Independent Press, which was discontinued before the close of the year. During the year he was actively engaged in politics, supporting Herschel V Johnson, Democrat, for governor, against Garnett Andrews, Know-Nothing. In 1856 the Know-Nothings defeated him for solicitor-general, before the Georgia legislature, and feeling aggrieved both at his own party, the Demoncrates, and the Know-Nothings, he ran as an independent candidate for the senate, and received nearly every vote in the county. During this year he also published through Saxton & Company, of New York, The Cotton Planters' Manual. In 1860 he began the publication through Putney & Russell, of New York, a quarterly review, The Plantation - only four numbers of which were issued when its publication was stopped by the war. Its success seems to have been guaranteed, when it ceased to exist.
A lame leg, caused by white swelling when a boy, prevented his enlistment in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he did what was never done before - established a newspaper upon a plantation, which publication was called The Countryman. This journal was an eminent success, and is yet remembered with much pleasure by its many subscribers in Georgia.
It was on this journal that Joel Chandler Harris first started in life as a printer's devil, and here acquired a taste for literature and laid up that wonderful store of dialect and folk-lore which has since made him famous.
In Jun, 1865, he was arrested and carried before General Wilson, the State being then under military rule on account of certain articles published in the Countryman pronounced disloyal. The Countryman was suppressed. The following year he moved to Eatonton, impoverished by the results of the war, and again commenced actively the practice of law. He died in Jan, 1868.
Joseph Addison and Louisa Turner left four children: William Leroy, Michael Dennis, Joseph Sidney, and Lucy B. William Leroy is a planter and merchant of Eatonton; Michael Dennis became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has since died. Lucy B was married to Alfred I Branham. She died Dec, 1886.
Source: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL, USA: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.
bio provided by P. Shreve.
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Joseph Addison was born Sep 26, 1826. He spent one term at Emory College in 1845. In 1846 he was elected principal of the Phoenix Academy, then an institution of much prominence in middle Georgia. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, after reading law with Colonel Julius Wingfield.
He first began to write in 1846, and in 1847 published a volume entitled Kemble's Poems, juvenile productions, written while in his teens, but which showed considerable talent. In 1848 he was a regular contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger and the Southern Literary Gazette. In 1849 he practiced law with Colonel Wingfield, returning to his farm every night. In 1850 he married Louisa Dennis, daughter of Michael Dennis, of Eatonton, and moved to that place to live. In 1852 he moved to the country, having bought a plantation adjoining the old homestead at Turnwold. The next few years were spent in farming, practicing law and literary pursuits. Among the many periodicals for which he wrote at this time were De Bow's Review, Southern Literary Messenger, Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine - the article on Georgia in Lippincott's Gazeteer of the World, the Cyclopedia of Commerce, and the new American Encyclopedia having been condensed in part from the article on the same subject in De Bow's Review.
In 1855 he established in Eatonton the Independent Press, which was discontinued before the close of the year. During the year he was actively engaged in politics, supporting Herschel V Johnson, Democrat, for governor, against Garnett Andrews, Know-Nothing. In 1856 the Know-Nothings defeated him for solicitor-general, before the Georgia legislature, and feeling aggrieved both at his own party, the Demoncrates, and the Know-Nothings, he ran as an independent candidate for the senate, and received nearly every vote in the county. During this year he also published through Saxton & Company, of New York, The Cotton Planters' Manual. In 1860 he began the publication through Putney & Russell, of New York, a quarterly review, The Plantation - only four numbers of which were issued when its publication was stopped by the war. Its success seems to have been guaranteed, when it ceased to exist.
A lame leg, caused by white swelling when a boy, prevented his enlistment in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he did what was never done before - established a newspaper upon a plantation, which publication was called The Countryman. This journal was an eminent success, and is yet remembered with much pleasure by its many subscribers in Georgia.
It was on this journal that Joel Chandler Harris first started in life as a printer's devil, and here acquired a taste for literature and laid up that wonderful store of dialect and folk-lore which has since made him famous.
In Jun, 1865, he was arrested and carried before General Wilson, the State being then under military rule on account of certain articles published in the Countryman pronounced disloyal. The Countryman was suppressed. The following year he moved to Eatonton, impoverished by the results of the war, and again commenced actively the practice of law. He died in Jan, 1868.
Joseph Addison and Louisa Turner left four children: William Leroy, Michael Dennis, Joseph Sidney, and Lucy B. William Leroy is a planter and merchant of Eatonton; Michael Dennis became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has since died. Lucy B was married to Alfred I Branham. She died Dec, 1886.
Source: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL, USA: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.
bio provided by P. Shreve.
Joseph Addison Turner, buried in an unmarked grave in Pine Grove Cemetery, Section 1, Division A, Lot 97, in Eatonton, GA. Also buried on that lot in unmarked graves are his wife Louisa Jane Dennis Turner,April 20, 1830 - Sept. 5, 1877; twin infant daughters Hattie and Fannie who died at age 3 months in 1868 (shortly after their father's death) and a son Michael Dennis Turner, April 17, 1857 - July 8, 1885. This data is from the Turner Family Bible, contemporary obituaries and from J.A. and Louisa Jane Turner's surviving children before their deaths. From James Marshall - Putnam Cty Historical Society.
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Joseph Addison was born Sep 26, 1826. He spent one term at Emory College in 1845. In 1846 he was elected principal of the Phoenix Academy, then an institution of much prominence in middle Georgia. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, after reading law with Colonel Julius Wingfield.
He first began to write in 1846, and in 1847 published a volume entitled Kemble's Poems, juvenile productions, written while in his teens, but which showed considerable talent. In 1848 he was a regular contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger and the Southern Literary Gazette. In 1849 he practiced law with Colonel Wingfield, returning to his farm every night. In 1850 he married Louisa Dennis, daughter of Michael Dennis, of Eatonton, and moved to that place to live. In 1852 he moved to the country, having bought a plantation adjoining the old homestead at Turnwold. The next few years were spent in farming, practicing law and literary pursuits. Among the many periodicals for which he wrote at this time were De Bow's Review, Southern Literary Messenger, Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine - the article on Georgia in Lippincott's Gazeteer of the World, the Cyclopedia of Commerce, and the new American Encyclopedia having been condensed in part from the article on the same subject in De Bow's Review.
In 1855 he established in Eatonton the Independent Press, which was discontinued before the close of the year. During the year he was actively engaged in politics, supporting Herschel V Johnson, Democrat, for governor, against Garnett Andrews, Know-Nothing. In 1856 the Know-Nothings defeated him for solicitor-general, before the Georgia legislature, and feeling aggrieved both at his own party, the Demoncrates, and the Know-Nothings, he ran as an independent candidate for the senate, and received nearly every vote in the county. During this year he also published through Saxton & Company, of New York, The Cotton Planters' Manual. In 1860 he began the publication through Putney & Russell, of New York, a quarterly review, The Plantation - only four numbers of which were issued when its publication was stopped by the war. Its success seems to have been guaranteed, when it ceased to exist.
A lame leg, caused by white swelling when a boy, prevented his enlistment in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he did what was never done before - established a newspaper upon a plantation, which publication was called The Countryman. This journal was an eminent success, and is yet remembered with much pleasure by its many subscribers in Georgia.
It was on this journal that Joel Chandler Harris first started in life as a printer's devil, and here acquired a taste for literature and laid up that wonderful store of dialect and folk-lore which has since made him famous.
In Jun, 1865, he was arrested and carried before General Wilson, the State being then under military rule on account of certain articles published in the Countryman pronounced disloyal. The Countryman was suppressed. The following year he moved to Eatonton, impoverished by the results of the war, and again commenced actively the practice of law. He died in Jan, 1868.
Joseph Addison and Louisa Turner left four children: William Leroy, Michael Dennis, Joseph Sidney, and Lucy B. William Leroy is a planter and merchant of Eatonton; Michael Dennis became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has since died. Lucy B was married to Alfred I Branham. She died Dec, 1886.
Source: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL, USA: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.
bio provided by P. Shreve.
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Joseph Addison was born Sep 26, 1826. He spent one term at Emory College in 1845. In 1846 he was elected principal of the Phoenix Academy, then an institution of much prominence in middle Georgia. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, after reading law with Colonel Julius Wingfield.
He first began to write in 1846, and in 1847 published a volume entitled Kemble's Poems, juvenile productions, written while in his teens, but which showed considerable talent. In 1848 he was a regular contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger and the Southern Literary Gazette. In 1849 he practiced law with Colonel Wingfield, returning to his farm every night. In 1850 he married Louisa Dennis, daughter of Michael Dennis, of Eatonton, and moved to that place to live. In 1852 he moved to the country, having bought a plantation adjoining the old homestead at Turnwold. The next few years were spent in farming, practicing law and literary pursuits. Among the many periodicals for which he wrote at this time were De Bow's Review, Southern Literary Messenger, Godey's Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine - the article on Georgia in Lippincott's Gazeteer of the World, the Cyclopedia of Commerce, and the new American Encyclopedia having been condensed in part from the article on the same subject in De Bow's Review.
In 1855 he established in Eatonton the Independent Press, which was discontinued before the close of the year. During the year he was actively engaged in politics, supporting Herschel V Johnson, Democrat, for governor, against Garnett Andrews, Know-Nothing. In 1856 the Know-Nothings defeated him for solicitor-general, before the Georgia legislature, and feeling aggrieved both at his own party, the Demoncrates, and the Know-Nothings, he ran as an independent candidate for the senate, and received nearly every vote in the county. During this year he also published through Saxton & Company, of New York, The Cotton Planters' Manual. In 1860 he began the publication through Putney & Russell, of New York, a quarterly review, The Plantation - only four numbers of which were issued when its publication was stopped by the war. Its success seems to have been guaranteed, when it ceased to exist.
A lame leg, caused by white swelling when a boy, prevented his enlistment in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he did what was never done before - established a newspaper upon a plantation, which publication was called The Countryman. This journal was an eminent success, and is yet remembered with much pleasure by its many subscribers in Georgia.
It was on this journal that Joel Chandler Harris first started in life as a printer's devil, and here acquired a taste for literature and laid up that wonderful store of dialect and folk-lore which has since made him famous.
In Jun, 1865, he was arrested and carried before General Wilson, the State being then under military rule on account of certain articles published in the Countryman pronounced disloyal. The Countryman was suppressed. The following year he moved to Eatonton, impoverished by the results of the war, and again commenced actively the practice of law. He died in Jan, 1868.
Joseph Addison and Louisa Turner left four children: William Leroy, Michael Dennis, Joseph Sidney, and Lucy B. William Leroy is a planter and merchant of Eatonton; Michael Dennis became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and has since died. Lucy B was married to Alfred I Branham. She died Dec, 1886.
Source: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL, USA: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.
bio provided by P. Shreve.
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