When George Kinder Turpin was born in 1789, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, his father, Martin Turpin, was 28 and his mother, Nancy Jane Fleming, was 24. He married Jane McDonald on 10 October 1822, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1850, in Lynnville, Warrick, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Warrick, Indiana, United States.