Turrentine Reunion -2010
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield• Book • 2 mattocks • Handbell• Ship
Colors• Red and gold • Motto
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield• Book for education & religion
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• 2 mattocks
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• Handbell
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield• Ship
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Colors
• Red and gold is for Italy, our proposed deep roots
Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Motto: Never forget
First Documents• Indentures – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 26 &
29, 1745• Alexander’s signature
Movement – about land
• Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
• Little River, Orange County, North Carolina
• West to Tennessee
• South to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
• Arkansas
After 100 yearsCensus 1850• Turrentine/Turentine• 178 whites
– 16 Families owned 165 slaves• Morgan T., North Carolina – 31, ages 80 to 1 month• Absalom T. North Carolina – 11, ages 35 to 1/2• Ann T., North Carolina – 14, ages 70 to 4• Daniel T, North Carolina – 15, ages 62 to 1• Elizabeth T, North Carolina. – 2, age 30 and unknown• James C. T – North Carolina – 4, ages 27 to 14• H. Turrentine – North Carolina – 11, ages 54 to 1 Total 77• H. T, Georgia – 5, ages 45 to 20• James T., Georgia – 17, ages 50 to 1• William T, Georgia – 3, ages 54, 19 and 6 Total 25• Allen T., Mississippi – 14, ages 65 to ½
• Archelaus T., Arkansas – 2, ages 40, 26• James T., Arkansas – 19, ages 50 to 1 (3 family groups)• George S. T, Arkansas – 3, ages 21, 18, 2 ½ Total 24• William Turentine, Tennessee – 7, ages 55 to 9• Felix Turentine, Tennessee – 7, ages 20 to 1/2
• Turntine– 9 white, 2 families, no slave owners
Movement Politics
Civil War divided the Turrentine Family
1860 1 family lived in North 48 families lived in South of these 48 families only 16 owned a total of 168 slaves
Soldiers – Union 10, 2 Union unit from Alabama and 2 blacks Confederate - 47
Land & Opportunity
• Texas, fled there from Arkansas
• Florida back to North Carolina
• .West
Turn of the Century – 1900
Census
• Turrentines 515 – 364 white, 151 black
• Turntine 154 – 82 black, 72 white
200 Years - 1955
• Turrentine Cemetery found in Orange County, North Carolina
• Combined Black & White Turrentine Reunion held 1952 in Locksburg, Arkansas
265 Years of Progress
• Turrentines white and black arrived in America in bondage
• From two brothers and the slaves who took the Turrentine name upon gaining their freedom, there are now over 1,700 Turrentines and 200 Turntines, plus thousands of descendants who bear other surnames.
• Today, we work in many respected professions: preachers, teachers, firefighters, policemen, nurses, doctors, dentists, military, architects, engineers, and entrepreneurs owning companies in diverse fields: needlepoint, winery, trash collection, construction, computer software, fashion, dance, and more.