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Feb 24, 2020 · John Virgil Turner was born in Mt Pleasant, Tennessee on September 11, 1894, as shown on his WWI Draft Registration. After his discharge from the Army he settled in Picher, Oklahoma, where he met the 15 year old Mildred Francis Cowan. The couple eloped to Miami, Oklahoma and married on January 5 th, 1920. Sometime after their marriage the ...
Jan 31, 2020 · John Virgil Turner was born in Mount Pleasant, Tenn., on Sept. 11, 1894, as shown on his World War I Draft Registration. After his discharge from the Army he settled in Picher, Okla., where he met ...
Apr 27, 2022 · About John Virgil Madison Turner Virgil Turner was the father of one of the most celebrated sex symbols during the 1940s and 1950s, Lana Turner. Turner was a gambler and bootlegger.
- Mt Pleasant, TN
- Mildred Turner
- TN
- September 11, 1894
Nov 2, 2020 · Lana’s father, the bootlegger and gambler John Virgil Madison Turner, was the victim of a gangland execution when she was younger, and the “Sweater Girl” took such threats seriously. When ...
May 26, 2004 · John Virgil Turner, son of Ervin and Mary Elizabeth Bristol Turner, was born May 3, 1923, in Ava, Missouri. He departed this life Wednesday, May 26, 2004, in Webco Manor, in Marshfield, Missouri, at the age of eighty-one years, and twenty-three days.
Brief Life History of John Virgil Madison. When John Virgil Madison Turner was born on 11 September 1899, in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Joseph Turner, was 29 and his mother, Mary Annette "Nettie" Quillen, was 23. He married Mildred Frances Cowan on 5 January 1920, in Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.
- Male
- Mildred Frances Cowan
Most sources agree that 1920 is the correct year of birth. Her parents were Mildred Frances (Cowan) and John Virgil Turner, a miner, both still in their teens when she was born. In 1929, her father was murdered and it was shortly thereafter that her mother moved her and the family to California where jobs were “plentiful.”
