Turner, Joseph
Item
Name at Birth
Turner, Joseph
Name at Death
Turner, Joseph
Cemetery Row
9
Grave Number
19
Birth Date
About 1834
Approximate Birth Year
1834
Birth Municipality
Unknown
Birth County
Stafford
Birth State
Virginia
Death Date
3/5/1899
Approximate Death Year
1899
Father's Name
Unknown
Mother's Name
Unknown
Spouse's Name
Unknown
Second Spouse(if applicable)
Not applicable
Third Spouse(if applicable)
Not applicable
Notes
Turner's served in Company D, 25th United States Colored Troops. His birth place is given on military records as Stafford County, Virginia, but he enlisted at Chambersburg and gave Gettysburg as his residence place. He died at the Adams County Almshouse in 1899 after experiencing frostbite and having both feet amputated. His lengthy obituary notes that he "had many friends in this locality," was "a great reader of the Bible and loved to read it to others." The obituary also references his military service: "He was a soldier and fought valiantly with the CIvil War.... He will be given a burial with the honors of war."
Sources
Adams County Death Index, microfilm copy, Adams County Historical Society; "Joseph Turner, A Colored Man Died at County Alms House," Star and Sentinel, March 7, 1899; "Died at the Alms-House," Gettysburg Compiler, March 7, 1899; USCT Research, Adams County Historical Society.