Wesley Turner

Added by: Steve McCray on 26 Apr 2010 (findagrave.com) (click to enlarge)
Added by: Steve McCray on 26 Apr 2010 (findagrave.com) (click to enlarge)

2nd g-grandfather of Katherine Cook

 

Pvt   Co. M, 16th KS Cavalry

Dates of Service:  10 Dec 1864 - 6 Dec 1865


Littleton Wesley "West" Turner was born in May 1846 in Missouri, to James Jones Turner and Sarah Clark. He married Mary Elizabeth Fowler in 1867 and they had eight children.

 

On December 10, 1864, Wesley Turner enlisted as a Private in Company M, 16th Kansas Cavalry. He mustered out on December 6, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, having served for 11 months, 26 days.

 

He was admitted to Leavenworth Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on January 26, 1912 with sciatica and cystitis. He died there on December 28, 1913,  at the age of 67, and was buried at Leavenworth National Cemetery. 

 

GRAVESITE: Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas

Compiled by Susan Norder, March 2020

Declaration of Pension (Vansel Family Tree by sctiger92 (ancestry.com)) (click to enlarge)
Declaration of Pension (Vansel Family Tree by sctiger92 (ancestry.com)) (click to enlarge)
U.S., Civil War Pension Index- General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (ancestry.com) (click to enlarge)
U.S., Civil War Pension Index- General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (ancestry.com) (click to enlarge)
The Leavenworth Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) · 30 Dec 1913, Tue · Page 7 (newspapers.com) (click to enlarge)
The Leavenworth Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) · 30 Dec 1913, Tue · Page 7 (newspapers.com) (click to enlarge)