Newspaper, NC, Wake, Titus Jennings Turner

Weekly Raleigh Register
Wake, North Carolina
16 JUL 1829


A correspondent in Randolph, informs us that a Coroner’s inquest was held on the
27th ultimo [27 JUN 1829], over the body of a man found dead in the Dutch Meeting
House in that county, who, as it appeared from his papers, was from Wake, and whose
name wad TITUS JENNINGS TURNER. The verdict of the Jury was, that he died a natural
death.

We were well acquainted with the deceased, (and we have seldom known a more
extraordinary character. He was an active soldier of the Revolution, the events of
which he could detail with such accuracy and feeling as to render them doubly
interesting. He was nearly or quite 90 years of age, a man of temperate and correct
habits, of inoffensive deportment and a considerable politician. He possessed a
strong mind and retentive memory, and was exceedingly fond of reading rare or
abstruse works. We have known him to sit hours together, poring over some musty
work of Divinity or Law (his favourite branches of Science,) and scarcely ever
withdraw his attention for a moment, until the declining sun betokened the approach
of night. He was poor, and never having had any great relish for work, was
supported pretty much by visiting from house to house, in the part of the county
where he had always lived; circulating the “newest news” and occasionally
instructing the children in their first rudiments for leaning.




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