Henry Smith Turner (1770–1829)
Turner and Bushrod Washington were brothers-in-law.
Henry Smith Turner was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. A lawyer, Turner also served as justice of Westmoreland County (1795) and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1799–1800) before acquiring Wheatland (or Wheatlands) plantation in Jefferson County, present-day West Virginia. Turner and first wife Lucy Hopkins had no children. In 1796 he wed Catherine Blackburn (1781–1817), a sister of Julia Ann "Nancy" Blackburn Washington.Their eight children included a son who was killed during John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
William M. Clemens, The Turner Family Magazine: Genealogical, Historical and Biographical, 2 volumes (New York: William M. Clemens, 1916–17).
Augusta B. Fothergill, Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia 1654–1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1973).
Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia: Also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland (Wilkes-Barre, PA: E.B. Yordy, 1891), 637–38.
"The Turner Family of King George County &c (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 21, Number 2 (April 1913), 211–12.
Turner Cordell Family Papers Finding Aid, UMB Digital Archive, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Henry S. Turner in Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740–1850 (Ancestry.com).
Henry Smith Turner at Find a Grave.
Henry Smith Turner at FamilySearch.