sentences:  He was the second son of Colonel Thomas Turner and his wife Ann Magdalene Magill Fauntleroy, and had several brothers and sisters.His son would later trace the family's ancestry to Charles Magill of Winchester and Charles Mynn Thruston who both served in the American Revolutionary War (Magill on General Washington's staff).Although his father was assigned various commands in the western U.S. territories, Thomas Jr. was educated at Benjamin Hallowell High School in Alexandria and the University of Virginia, where he graduated with the law class of 1844.