When Samuel Stephen Turnbow was born on 30 August 1854, in Farmington, Graves, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Turnbow, was 56 and his mother, Minerva Elizabeth "Bettie" Goodman, was 28. He married Mary F. "Mollie" Howard on 22 February 1875, in Graves, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Graves, Kentucky, United States for about 50 years and Lynnville, Graves, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 6 August 1927, in Farmington, Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Antioch Church, Graves, Kentucky, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1866: Graves, Kentucky, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Americanized form of Alsatian Dürrenbach: habitational name from Dürrenbach in Bas-Rhin (Alsace, France), a placename meaning ‘dry stream’. Compare Turnbaugh , Turnbo , Turnbough , and Turnpaugh .
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Dürnbach (see Durnbaugh ).
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