James Turner SMITH 
James Turner was born about 1758 in Charles Co., MD.. James Turner's father was James Richard SMITH and his mother was Sarah TURNER. His maternal grandparents were James TURNER Sr. and Kerenhappuch Norman. He had four brothers and two sisters, named Richard, John, Charles Allison, Benjamin, Mary and Sarah M.. He was the fourth oldest of the seven children. He died on December 17th, 1817 in Asheville, Buncomb Co., N. C..General Notes
5 children with Constantina & 1 with Lucy.
"...James Turner Smith volunteered at seventeen to fight in the Revolutionary War. He was critically wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina and lay neglected for hours with his thigh completely shattered. Finally he was moved to a log home near the battlefield, where doctors planned to cut the leg off. But Smith would not consent to the amputation. As word of the bloody battle spread to Maryland, his grandmother Kerenhappuch Norman Turner, 90, rode all the way on horseback to be with him, where she nursed him and others back to health. She bored holes in large tubs mounted to the rafters above him. The tubs were kept full of cool water and allowed to drip, continuously cleansing his wound.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1734 d.24 Nov 1791 in Richmond , Richmond Co., VA.
- b.~ 1758 in Charles Co., MD. d.17 Dec 1817 in Asheville, Buncomb Co., N. C.
- b.1710 in Prince William Co., Virginia Colony d.1787 in Spotsylvania Co., VA.
- b.1734 in Orange Co., VA. d.> 1806
- b.15 May 1631 in Orchard, Somerset, England d.01 Sep 1677 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- b.~ 1645 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia d.1686 in Gloucester County, Virginia
- b.01 Feb 1682 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia d.07 Apr 1748 in Culpeper, Virginia
- b.~ 1663 d. in Gloucester County, Virginia
- b.1716 in Culpeper County, Virginia d.1807 in Richmond County, North Carolina or Guilford County, North Carolina
- b.1640 in Virginia d.1698 in Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia
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- b.17 Jan 1686 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester, Virginia d.1752 in Culpeper, Virginia
- b.1623 in Purleigh, Malden District, Essex County, England d.Nov 1673 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
- b.~ 1646 in Virginia or England
- b.1628 in England d.< 1677 in Virginia
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Details of James Turner's family with Constantina Ann FORD
Details of James Turner's family with Lucy MARSHALL
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