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| Birth: | 1 Feb 1894 in Fox Neck, Culpeper County, Virginia |
| Death: | 1975 in Culpepper, Culpepper County, Virginia |
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| Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia |
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Kate Willis remembers her father telling her how he and his sisters
Isabelle and Lucy were put on a horse and sent to Lignum to school.The family eventually moved to Lignum to make this easier.
When he was very little his mother and a kinswoman both bought cloth from the same bolt at the Lignum store to make dresses. Coming out ofchurch one day someone spoke to Turpin. He was so shy that he grabbedhis mother's voluminous skirt and wrapped himself in it. Then heheard a strange voice coming from the owner of the skirt, "who isthat?" It was not his mother. Turpin shrieked and ran to look forhis mother
When Turpin was a young boy he asked one of his older brother to buy Christmas presents for the family. He gave him a list that read asfollows: "Something nice for mama - 5 cents, something nice for papa- 5 cents, something nice for Lucy - 5 cents.....
Once when Turp was six or seven and the family was still living at Foxneck he went to spend the night across the river at Cousin WillyGordon's. In the middle of the night Turpin decided he wanted to gohome, but it had been raining and the river had risen making itimpassible. Turp cried all night.
Turpin was always a homebody. Later when he would attend cattle conventions, he would make his plans so as to spend the fewest nightsaway from home. Told by Katie Willis to Mark Willis Ballard.
Turpin bought his brother Hugh's truck farm in West Virginia. After running it for a while he bought Rotherwood in Culpeper because hewanted to come back home. The land near the town of Culpeper wasbetter farm land than around Lignum.
He sold his dairy herd of seventy cows in the 1970's because he would have had to double the size of the herd and build a new milking parlormake it economically feasible. He called the next year "the silentspring." He bought a few beef cattle just to keep him company.
He put numerous nephews and nieces through college (including Uncle Hugh's children) and supported a baptist missionary.
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- Title: _TYPE: UnspecifiedWillis, Gordon, Garnett & Allied Familes Reunion
Journal, Vol. I, Number 10, August 8, 1982_MASTER: Y
Publication: August 8, 1982
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