Lived in Charlottesville,  Virginia,  moved to Crab Orchard, KY when is son William was a small boy, remained there only a short time, then moved to Huntsville, Alabama,  his son took Bilious fever and after an illness of only nine days, died.

RANDOLPH TURNER, White River, was born in Virginia about 1788; married Elizabeth Heaston, daughter of Abram Heaston and sister of David Heaston; moved to Tennessee in 1818; kept a hotel at the foot of Cumberland Mountains, on the west side, near Crab Orchard; went to Alabama in 1826, and died in 1828. In Alabama he was a farmer. They had seven children, three of whom came to Indiana. Mrs. Turner, widow of Randolph Turner, came to Indiana in 1833, with her father Abram Heaston, bringing three children. She lived with her father till he died, and then with her son William Turner, until she died, in 1861, being at the time sixty-five years old.

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Description Excerpt from "History of Randolph County, Indiana" by E. Tucker p. 340

Date 1882 Location White River, Randolph, Indiana