PATRIOT Colonel 'Turner' Gustavus Morehead^{[1, 2]}

1757 - 1820  (63 years)

• Name	'Turner' Gustavus Morehead  [3]
  Title	PATRIOT
  Prefix	Colonel
  Born	7 Jan 1757	Virginia Colony
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Feb 1820	Baron County, Kentucky
  Person ID	I17733	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Charles R. [Reynolds] Morehead,   b. Abt 1790, Virginia Colony ,   d. 1783, Kentucky
  Mother	Mary Turner,   b. Abt 1749,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	1756
  Family ID	F6380	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne Ransdale/Ransdell,   b. 17 Aug 1756,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Gustavus Morehead,   b. 28 Jan 1780,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Turner 'Gustavus' Morehead, Jr.,   b. 1784, Halifax County, Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Armistead Ransdell Morehead,   b. 28 Jan 1787,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2017
  Family ID	F6381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Ann Hooe,   b. 23 May 1779, Stafford Co., Virginia ,   d. 20 May 1838, Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee  (Age 58 years)
  Married	14 Jan 1798	Fauquier County, Virginia
  	Turner and Mary Ann Morehead married on 14 January 1798 at Fauquier County, Virginia. They gave birth to: Susan Hooe, born 18 November 1798; Charles Robert, born 01 January 1800; Elizabeth Ann, born 09 August 1801; John Hooe, born 09 January 1803; Oscar Bell, born 13 June 1805; Mary Hewitt, born 15 May 1807; Bushrod Washington, born 05 January 1809; Alzira Hewitt, born 20 October 1812; Martha, born 29 July 1814; Carolina M., born 21 December 1816, and Marcellus M., born 14 September 1820. Mary Ann died on 20 May 1838 at Nashville, Tennessee.
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2017
  Family ID	F6382	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James Morehead, son of Turner and Ann Morehead, married Mary Turner Donaldson at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mary was a daughter of Daniel Donaldson and Kerenhappuch Morehead. James initially engaged in mercantile business at Bowling Green, but in the early 1820?s the family moved to Christian County, Kentucky, where James took up farming. Henry Morehead, son of Turner and Ann Morehead, married Elizabeth Worthington. They had one daughter.

  
  

• Sources

  [S107] Family Histories, http://www.motherbedford.com/Muirhead407.htm. The eldest son of John and Mary Morehead was Charles R.(4.58) He married, in 1756, Mary Turner, the daughter of James Turner and his wife, Kerenhappuck Norman. Kerenhappuck was the daughter of Isaac Norman and Frances Courtney, whose residence was in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. Turner Gustavus Morehead, son of Charles and Mary Morehead, was born 07 January 1757. He married twice, first to Ann Ransdell/Ransdale on 07 June 1779 and secondly to Mary Ann Hewitt Hooe. (It should be noted here that certain genealogies state that Mary Ann was the first wife and that Ann Ransdell was the second.) Ann Ransdell, Turner Morehead?s first wife, was born on 17 August 1756 (some researchers give Ann?s birthdate as 02 August 1756). Turner and Ann gave birth to nine children: Gustavus, born 28 January 1780; Margaret, born 28 September 1781; Nancy, born 09 March 1783; Mary, born 01 May 1784; Turner Gustavus Jr., born 08 May 1785; Armistead Ransdell, born 28 January 1787; Matilda, born 18 May 1789; Sally, born 11 January 1791; James, born 04 January 1793; and Henry, born 08 August 1795. [S132] Revolutionary War Pension Applications, http://lib.jrshelby.com/mcallister-harris.pdf. Turner Morehead's Company was in service near Williamsburg, 244. 1781 [S107] Family Histories, http://www.motherbedford.com/Muirhead407.htm. Turner Morehead served during the American Revolutionary War as a Captain in the Third Regiment of Virginia in 1776, and was present at the Battle of Germantown. He also served as a Militia Captain during the American Revolutionary War; he received his commission from the Fauquier County Court on 24 March 1778 (Variously, John M. Morehead gives the date as the 4th). Following the war, on 25 June 1787, Turner Morehead received a commission by the Fauquier County Court to serve as a Major General of the Militia. On 25 February 1794, Turner Morehead received a commission to serve as a Colonel of the Militia, and on 28 July 1794 as a Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the Grand Battalion of the First Regiment. He eventually was promoted to Colonel of that Battalion, and served as such until he was replaced by Thomas Chilton on 22 April 1799. It might also be noted that Mrs. Delia C. Buckner quoted her husband, General Simon B. Buckner, as stating that Turner Morehead was ?the first to mount the parapets in the storming of Stony Point under General Wayne?.(4.63) After the War, the Turner Morehead family moved to Barron County, Kentucky in 1811 where he engaged in the milling business. Turner Morehead died on 23 February 1820 and his second wife, Mary Ann, died on 20 May 1838 at Nashville, Tennessee.