LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Lake County, Ohio Biographies Project by
Deb Breniser
rbcobb@ncweb.com
January 6, 2000
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From the 1915 Lake County, Ohio Atlas

TURNEY HOMESTEAD is located on Turney Road, and is owned by Ida M. Cross, 
Address Perry, Ohio, two and one-half miles from Perry, its nearest market. It 
contains 161 acres and is noted for its fine dairy and graded cattle, mostly 
Holsteins. The milk product averages 30 gallons a daily. Its soil products are 
general and there are 30 acres of timber embracing mostly maple and elm. Wells 
and a never-failing spring furnish running water to fields, stock and buildings.
The name in honor of the family. Building improvements are all in excellent 
repair, main stock barn is 60 x 40, with a silo 12 feet in height. The Farm's 
surface is generally level and the soil is gravely loam. The farm came into 
possession of Mrs. Cross by will, and had remained in the possession of the 
family from date of ownership of her grandfather Alonzo B. Turney, Turney Road 
being named in his honor. Mrs. Cross married Charles Cross, Sept. 20, 1910, her 
maiden name being Ida M. Turney.