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Peter Turney’s Birthplace

Peter Turney’s Birthplace is a Tennessee historical marker in Marion County.

Marion Co, TN 2 (US 41 & 64), in Birthplace Jasper, just west of Lankester Hotel

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Born in a house on this site, Sept. 27, 1827. Raised and commanded the 1st Tenn. Inf. Confederate. Severely wounded at Fredericksburg, and promoted brigadier general. Elected 1870 to state Supreme Court, becoming Chief Justice in 1886. First elected Governor in 1893, reelected in 1895. died Oct. 19, 1903. Buried in Winchester.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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