Family
Turney married his first wife, Cassandra Webb Garner, on June 10, 1851. They had three children: Thomas, Virginia, and Hopkins Lacey. After his first wife died in 1857, he married as his second wife, Hannah Ferguson Graham, on April 27, 1858. They had ten children: Teresa, John, Peter, Jr., Aletha, Samuel, Lowndes, James, Woodson, Hannah, and Miller Francis.
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—Chinese proverb.
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