Second wife of Rev. John P. Turnbull, a prominent member of the Choctaw Nation. Harriet's father was a Quartermaster's clerk at the old Fort Towson. He was a first cousin to the noted educator, Frances E. Willard.
Their adopted daughter Belle lost her parents at an early age and was adopted by John P. Turnbull and his second wife, Harriett.
Rev. Turnbull was Head Master at Goodland Indian Orphanage and Presbyterian minister at Goodland (1866 - 1890). The Goodland Mission Station was started in 1835 with permanent missionary station status being granted in 1848. In 1850 the first school was started by Rev. and Mrs. Oliver Porter Stark.
Rev. Turnbull was also a Choctaw Supreme Court Judge, National Treasurer for the Tribe and Superintendent of Choctaw Tribal Schools. He died on May 08, 1894, at Goodland and is buried there.
Harriet had a younger sister Frances, who taught at the Goodland School (1872 - 1875). After losing her first husband, Fannie married a second time to the Rev. Wilson Jones, the first Superintendent of Goodland Indian Orphanage (1894 - 1898). Both are buried at Goodland Cemetery.
