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Surgeon-general U.S. Army.
Had three children.
Unmarried.
Of the Episcopal Church.
Source: Fauquier County, Virginia 1759-1959. Moved to Fauquier County, VA from King George County in 1823. Mr. Turner built Kinloch (Rt. 601, near The Plains) that year but it was partially destroyed by fire in 1831 and rebuilt in 1833. It was a mansion of dignity and beauty with flower gardens on either side of the house, and the large farm was almost self-sustaining, as there were carpenters, blacksmiths and shoemakers among the men, and the women did the carding, spinning and weaving. Robert E. Lee spent much of his boyhood at Kinloch with his relative and guardian, Mr. Turner. He became so attached to the horse he rode at Kinloch, named Fancy Traveller, that when he became Commander-in-chief of the Confederacy, he named his horse Traveller for the horse of his happy childhood days. Lee's mother and sisters refugeed at Kinloch when it was no longer safe for them to remain at Arlington. When Augustine Washington of Waveland left home to enter the War he sent the Mount Vernon silver to his close friend Edward Turner, son of Thomas, at Kinloch for safe keeping, packed in a large wooden box and carried in an ox cart covered with fodder. Mr. Turner told his slaves who were present that this was such a grave responsibility that he would return the silver the next day. In the quiet of the night he secretly packed the silver in course grain stacks and hid it in the top of the pigeon cote in the garden. He then repacked the box with corn cobs and next morning sent it home to Waveland on the ox cart. Edward Turner and one son alone knew the secret of the Mount Vernon silver which in due time was restored to its former resting place. Kinloch passed to the ownership of Loughborough Turner at Edward Turners death and remained in his possession until 1921.
Was Robert E. Lee's first cousin.
He was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy and commanded the United States Pacific Fleet in 1839.
Bridesmade at the wedding of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anne Randolph Custis in 1869.
RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information added as post-em on WorldConnect by Sue Andrews [sueandrews@mindspring.com] on 19Aug2002. She cites source of: Pearce, Allyne (Jane) Garnett [pearce.j@att.net], editor. You Must Give Something Back. "Some descendents of John Garnett, Gloucester County, Virginia." Abilene, TX: H. V. Chapman & Sons, 2000.