Rev. Zenas Turman, Part 1

A widowed eccentric minister remarries to the astonishment of all
  • Rev. Zenas Turman, Part 1
    Rev. Zenas Turman, Part 1
  • Wedding picture of Catherine and Zenas Turman, 1860
    Wedding picture of Catherine and Zenas Turman, 1860

    Preface Rev. Zenas Turman and his wife Catherine came to Table Rock only after he retired. He came here the year of the first train, 1871. He had been a pioneer Methodist minister, a circuit rider who is said to have preached the first sermon where Lincoln now stands. Rev. Turman and his long-suffering wife Catherine, an “earnest Christian lady” according to her obituary, left the earth over a cen…