This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turpin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2044 Message Board Post: >From the Modesto Herald, Modesto, CA, March 24, 1916: Samuel Turpin, aged 70. Born in Pennsylvania. Enlisted January 28, 1864, as a private in Company A, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Discharged at close of war and died at Oakdale February 28, 1916.