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George Isbell Turnley

Full Name: George Isbell Turnley
Birth date: August 29, 1840
Death date: October 23, 1923

Terms of Service

  • House, 19th (1) (2) (3) (4) Legislature
    1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
    Democrat
(1) Coldspring formerly spelled Cold Spring. Cold Spring became the county seat of newly established San Jacinto County in 1870. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) The Texas legislature established San Jacinto County with Coldspring as the county seat on August 13, 1870, out of parts of Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, and Walker counties. Handbook of Texas Online .
(3) Cold Spring, Polk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Cold Springs. Rules of Order of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth Legislature 1885.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, Private, Company G, 10th Alabama Infantry, enlisted 6/4/1861 at Jacksonville, Alabama. George Isbell Turnley, death date 10/23/1923 in Harris County; widow Mrs. Geo. I. Turnley, marriage date 6/11/1878 in San Jacinto County. Pension File Nos. 39316 (George L. Turnley) and 39491 (George Isbell Turnley), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
  • Census of 1880 - George F. Turnley, San Jacinto County, age 37, born circa 1843 in Alabama, lawyer, wife Emma.
    Census of 1900 - Geo. E. Turnley, San Jacinto County, born May 1846 in Georgia, wife Emily.
    Census of 1910 - Geo I. Turnley, Harris County, born circa 1844 in Alabama, wife Emily.
    George I. Turnley married Emily E. Ross, 6/11/1878 in San Jacinto County, Texas.
    FamilySearch . 1910 1900
  • 1880 Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
  • G.I. Turnley, birth date 8/29/1840, death date 10/23/1923 in Houston. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
  • Biographical sketch, G.I. Turnley, p. 55. Age 41 (born circa 1844), born in Alabama, former mayor of Jacksonville, AL, came to Texas 1876. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
  • 10th Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, Army of Northern Virginia, p. 55. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.

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