When Thomas died while serving in the Civil War, he had seven little sisters at home. Margaret Golden Turpin was the next in line -- the second child and first girl born to Newt and his wife Sarah. She was born in Indiana on 13 April 1846 in Indiana. She came to Iowa as a young girl when her parents settled there.
Margaret married into the Vanhorn family which had an Owen County, Indiana heritage like the Turpins. She married Ralph Wilson Vanhorn on 17 October 1864.
