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Favorite Old Photo: Joe Turner and 'Red-Headed' wife 2011-11-10 - Cave Ridge, Metcalfe Co., KY - Photo from collection of Geniece Marcum. Joseph Alexander Turner, one of the Old Turners of Adair County, KY went out west to Metcalfe County from here, and operated a general store at Cave Ridge, a community which thrives to this day. He was a store keeper, surveyor, and correspondent, including dispatches under the pen name "Paul Revere," to Adair County, Edmonton, and Glasgow. Metcalfe lore credits him with naming Cave Ridge, when he said one day that he'd been out grubbing brush on that Cave Ridge, the land atop Liberty Cave. The elegant lady beside him was Almedia Frances Anderson Turner, whom he wrote about as "that red-headed wife of mine," as well as about a mythical family of sons - in reality, the couple had all daughters. And, Almedia was not red-headed. She and Joseph Alexander were the great grandparents of a host of famous people, including Patty Reed of Modesto, CA; Jane Todd Beard of Edmonton, KY; Joe Keith Marcum, who is the spitting image of Joseph Alexander Turner and, like him, a writer; Patty Rush Jones of Columbia, KY; and Linda Marcum Waggener, also of Columbia, KY. Joseph Alexander Turner was a staunch Democrat, a supporter of William Jennings Bryan, and an advocate of Free Silver. Permalink | Comments?

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