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| Julia Turpin Jurges |
Julia was another of the Iowa-born children in Robert Newton Turpin’s second family. She was born 11 October 1875 in Grand Junction, Greene County, Iowa per her own handwritten notes. Her obituary claims that the town of Jefferson is where Julia was born.
Julia married a young German immigrant, Charles Jurges, on 15 March 1899 according to Rock County, Nebraska marriage records. Charles was born 15 March 1876 in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Frederick H. Jurges and Johanna Wilhelmina Louisa Ilsemann according to German emigration records and his marriage record. Charles immigrated in 1892. He would have been about 17 years old.
