Tombstone Tuesday ~ The TURNER family plot, at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

These tombstones and family plot were photographed at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

LOOKING FOR

THAT BLESSED HOPE

AND THE GLORIOUS

APPEARING OF THE 

GREAT GOD AND

OUR SAVIOR

JESUS CHRIST - Titus 

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

REV. JOHN TURNER

HIS WIFE

LUCY SARGENT

AND THEIR DAUGHTER

KATHARINE WINTHROP

JOHN NEWTON

TURNER

HARRIET DANA

TURNER

CATHARINE WINTHROP

TURNER

[Nine year old daughter of John Newton Turner and Harriet Dana]

JOHN ARTHUR

TURNER

[Infant son of John Newton Turner and Harriet Dana]

GRACE TURNER

[Infant daughter of John Newton Turner and Harriet Dana]

The Reverend John Turner, son of Colonel Seth Turner (1727 - 1806) and Rebecca Vinton (1729 - 1801) was born 4 November 1768 in Braintree, Massachusetts, and died 29 September 1830 in Dorchester, Massachusetts (now a part of the city of Boston).   He married Lucy Sargent, daughter of Paul Dudley Sargent (1745 - 1827) and Lucy Sanders (1752 - 1840), born 27 September 1773 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died 13 February 1853.  They had nine children:

    1.  Lucy Sargent Turner, born 29 June 1795, married David Hall
    2.  Mary Sophia Turner, born 1796, married Rev. Joseph Searle
    3.  Charlotte Saunders Turner, born 1799, died at age 14 years.
    4.  Rebecca, born 26 June 1803, died young
    5.  Martha Walker Turner, born 13 February 1809 in Biddeford, Maine, married Arthur Wilkinson*
    6.  John Newton Turner, born 1811 in Biddeford, Maine, married Harriet Dana
    7.  Samuel Hubbard Turner, born 1814, married Joanna A. Saxton
    8.  Catharine Winthrop Turner, born 22 June 1819, died at age 20 years unmarried
    9.  Rebecca Vinton Turner, born 1820


John Turner graduated from Brown University in 1788.  In the town of Biddeford, Maine, the congregational church divided into two parishes in 1797, and a new church was built within the next few years and Rev. John Turner was installed as the first minister of this second Congregational Church.   He was dismissed from Biddeford in 1817 and removed to Kingston, New Hampshire in 1818 where he was installed as the pastor of the local church.  Rev. Turner remained in Kingston until 1823 when he was removed for "intemperance".  He retired to Dorchester, Massachusetts where he was originally buried.  John and Lucy were both re-interred on 21 May 1853 at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

*The family plot of Arthur Wilkinson is next to the Turner plot, and is featured at this blog link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/08/tombstone-tuesday-wilkinson-family-plot.html 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ The TURNER family plot, at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 25, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/tombstone-tuesday-turner-family-plot-at.html: accessed [access date]).