This document summarizes the family crest of the Turrentine family and traces the history and migration of the Turrentine family from Ireland in 1745 to various locations in the United States. It provides details from census records and military service about the division of the family during the Civil War period, with some family members owning slaves and others fighting for the Union or Confederacy. It notes that combined black and white Turrentine family reunions began in 1950 in Arkansas.

1. Turrentine Scoggins Cravens
Counts Bell Reunion -2013

2. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• Book
• 2 mattocks
• Handbell
• Ship
Colors
• Red and gold
• Motto

3. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• Book for education
& religion
(Many Turrentines are
preacher and teachers.
Several church are named
for Turrentines.)

4. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• 2 mattocks which were buried in the dirt
floor of cabin abandon during French &
Indian War.

5. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• Handbell which was used
by the Turrentines in North
Carolina, then Bedford Co,
Tennessee, the Sevier Co,
Arkansas to call everyone
to meals. It would have
been heard by Gilbert (Jr)
from the time he was born
until at least 1859.

6. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Four parts of the shield
• Ship
This ship is the
type that brought
The 2 Turrentine
brothers from Ireland
in 1745.

7. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Colors
• Red and gold is for Italy, our proposed
deep roots

8. Family Crest – Cindy Keyton
Motto: Never forget Lockesburg, AR integrated National
Turrentine Reunion 1950

9. First Documents
• Indentures – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 26 &
29, 1745
• Alexander’s signature

10. Movement – about land
• Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
• Little River, Orange County, North
Carolina
• West to Tennessee
• South to South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama
• Arkansas

11. After 100 years
Census 1850
• Turrentine/Turentine - 178 whites
– Only 16 Families owned 165 slaves
• Morgan T., North Carolina – 31, ages 80 to 1 month
• Absalom T. North Carolina – 11, ages 35 to 1/2
• Ann T., North Carolina – 14, ages 70 to 4
• Daniel T, North Carolina – 15, ages 62 to 1
• Elizabeth T, North Carolina. – 2, age 30 and unknown
• James C. T – North Carolina – 4, ages 27 to 14
• H. Turentine – North Carolina – 11, ages 54 to 1
Total 88
• H. T, Georgia – 5, ages 45 to 20
• James T., Georgia – 17, ages 50 to 1
• William T, Georgia – 3, ages 54, 19 and 6
Total 25
• Allen T., Mississippi – 14, ages 65 to ½
• Archelaus T., Arkansas – 2, ages 40, 26
• James T., Arkansas – 19, ages 50 to 1 (3 family groups)
• George S. T, Arkansas – 3, ages 21, 18, 2 ½
Total 24
• William Turentine, Tennessee – 7, ages 55 to 9
• Felix Turentine, Tennessee – 7, ages 20 to 1/2
• Total 14
• Turntine
– 9 white, 2 families, no slave owners

12. Slave Shedules
• 1850 – James, owner of Gilbert “Old Gib”,
owner of 19 slaves, & 3 other
Turrentine slaves
• 1860 – James is not shown as slave owner
but errors in names and ages
Next door is James’ son William
who is listed with a single slave,
………….Gilbert (Jr).
(177)

13. Majority of Turrentine slaves
in Arkansas in 1860 are
shown as owned by C P
Turrentine who had moved to
Arkansas from Alabama.

14. Civil War divides Turrentines
1860 1 family lived in North
48 families lived in South
of these 16 owned a total of 165 slaves
Soldiers – Union 10 including
2 - in Union 1st
Regiment Alabama Cavalry
(both died in service)
2 - blacks (George Turntine 63rd
and Albert
Turrentine, Co. G, 57th
US Colored Infantry)
1 - Turntine in 2nd
Arkansas Infantry
Confederate - 47

15. 1870 Census
First census listing former slaves by first and last name.
830 persons in Sevier County, Arkansas are listed as black or mixed
race
15 in 4 households are Turrentines, all in Blue Bayou TWP
Gilbert Turrentine, Sr born abt 1801 in NC (4)
Gilbert Turrentine, Jr born abt 1828 in TN (9)
Silva Turrentine born abt 1800 in Alabama, home of Lafayette
Scroggins
Josiah (Joe) Turrentine born Oct 1959 in household of Jacob Grave(s)
Nationally index shows 92 Turntines/Turrentines of black or mixed race
were counted in the census.

16. Turn of the Century – 1900
Census
• Turrentines 515 – 364 white, 151 black
• Turntine 154 – 82 black, 72 white

17. 200 Years - 1955
• Turrentine Cemetery found in Orange
County, North Carolina
• Combined Black & White Turrentine
Reunion held 1950 in Locksburg,
Arkansas

18. 265 Years of Progress
• Turrentines white and black arrived in America in
bondage
• From two brothers and the slaves who took the
Turrentine name upon gaining their freedom, there are
now over 1,700 Turrentines and 200 Turntines, plus
thousands of descendants who bear other surnames.
• Today, we work in many respected professions:
preachers, teachers, firefighters, policemen, nurses,
doctors, dentists, military, architects, engineers, and
entrepreneurs owning companies in diverse fields:
needlepoint, winery, trash collection, construction,
computer software, fashion, dance, music, film,and
more.