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- Mrs. Isabel Barrett Turkington.
DAR #14810, Vol. 15, page 303.
Born in NY.
Wife of George E. Turkington.
Descendant of Jacob Barrett, of CT.
Daughter of Anthony Barrett and Sarah Ann Wilcoxen, his wife.
Granddaughter of Jacob Barrett and Jane Stranahan, his wife (1766-1814).
Jacob Barrett, (1764-1846), served as a substitute for his father, 1779. He reenlisted from Windham County in the CT Line, 1781-82. He was a pensioner from Fenner, NY, where he died.
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Find-a-Grave
Isabel's first husband was John Marshall. According to family tradition, he was ill with tuberculosis and they ventured out to the Illinois wilderness in hopes that a change of climate and cleaner air would make him well. Mr. Marshall died. Isabel was apparently supporting herself as a seamstress between husbands.
She married George Edward Turkington, Sr., on 24 SEP 1861. They had two children: George Edward, Jr., and Anna Belle Turkington. She helped Anna Belle raise her grandson, John Oliver "Jack" Turkington from about the age of four years.
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Rockford Republic
December 28, 1929
Rochelle, Dec. 28 – Funeral arrangements are being completed today for Mrs. Isabella Turkington, 98, whose death came Friday a 11 a.m., following an illness of bronchial pneumonia of only a weeks duration, and thwarted her ambition to reach the age of 100. Her 99th birthday anniversary was to have been celebrated Jan. 7.
Mrs. Turkinston’s 98 years have been interesting ones. Born Jan. 7, 1831, at Casonova, N.Y., she was married in early girlhood and came west as a bride, to be left a widow at the age of 18.
She came to Rochelle as a teacher in the public schools and was united in marriage to George D. Turkington on Sept. 16, 1861, on the wedding day of their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Antone Meyers, who together with her husband have preceded her in death.
A son, George, and a daughter, Anna, were her only children, and when her son died on June 23, 1929, her husband having passed away on May 25, 1905, she was left with her only daughter, Anna. She was also the surving child of the twelve children of Anthony Barrett and Sara Ann Wilcoxen.
The George D. Turkington family was well known in Northern, Illinois, her husband being among the builders of the first dam in Rockford in 1857 and later a section worker at Galena. He located in Rochelle, operating the Turkington hardware store located at the present site of the Maxson café.
At the time of the Civil war the Turkington hardware store was the center of a fiendish fire plot, which was designed to destroy all Rochelle, then only a few struggling homes and frame store buildings.
A confession of a confederate, Thomas Burke, revealed the kerosene soaked wood in the rear of the Turkington store which was to have destroyed the few frame buildings.
Later on June 7, 1861, Thomas Burke was executed by the citizens of Lane (Rochelle) and hanged from the only two story building in the village, the one adjoining the Turkington hardware store, now Peoples’ Loan and Trust bank building.
At the time of the death of George D. Turkington, he left his widow and two children valuable property and several buildings in the business district of this city, which will be divided among the present heirs.
The death of Mrs. Isabella Turkington closes a book of interesting pages of life the later years of which were lived in Rochelle where she has made many friends.
Mrs. Turkington, despite her old age has enjoyed excellent health and only last winter motored to Florida for a visit of several months with her daughter.
A daughter, Miss Anna, and the following grandchildren are the only relatives surviving: Mrs: Isabell Roderman: Mrs. Helen Rosencrans and her daughter, Betty of Omaha, Nebr.: George Turkington. Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif. And Jack Turkington who has resided here with his aunt and grandmother.
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