TURNER GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


I owe all of my knowledge of the early Turners to my cousin, Gail Blancett, who has done much research on this line. Without her genealogical expertise I probably never would have known the parents and grandparents of Sarah (Turner) Littlefield. Other Turner cousins who have helped me on my Turner line are Ann Coleman and Barbara Dunn.

Here is my known TURNER lineage:

  1. Henry TURNER, Sr., b. VA, d. 30 Jan. 1812 Spartanburg Co., SC; md. Sarah MURPHY, b. VA, d. Spartanburg Co., SC
  2. Henry TURNER, Jr., b. Frederick Co., VA, d. 2 Oct. 1812 Spartanburg Co., SC; md. Frances CHILDS
  3. Sarah TURNER, b. 1789 Spartanburg Co., SC, d. 1832 McLemoresville, TN (buried in Leach Family Cemetery); md. ca. 1823 Spartanburg, SC to William LITTLEFIELD, Jr., b. 16 May 1756 Frederick Co., MD, d. 15 Oct. 1836 Dekalb Co., AL
  4. Luther Rice LITTLEFIELD, b. 25 Dec. 1826 Spartanburg, SC, d. 25 Mar. 1903 Adamsville, TN; md. 28 Dec. 1848 Jonesboro, MS to Nancy Artemisia WOOLVERTON, b. 28 Aug. 1829 Maury Co., TN, d. 24 Jan. 1926 Adamsville, TN
  5. Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesboro, MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN
  6. James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, OK; md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, TX
  7. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, CO (both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.



I also have another possible Turner line which comes through the HANKS family. My ancestor, Luke HANKS, b. ca. 1685 Richmond Co., VA, d. bef. Feb. 1757 Lancaster Co., VA; md. ca. 1710 Richmond Co., VA to Elizabeth (TURNER?), b. ca. 1695 VA, d. ca. 1750 Richmond Co., VA. No primary sources have been found to show that Elizabeth's maiden name was Turner. However, one of their sons was named TURNER Hanks. It makes sense that he would have been named Turner if his mother's maiden name was Turner. To see my Hanks-Turner lineage go to HANKS/HANKE/HANKINS GENEALOGY compiled by Glenn Gohr.

Another possible TURNER connection is the family of Jeremiah TURNER Reeves in my wife's family. Often men would have the maiden name of their mother as their middle name, so possible his mother was a Turner. To see my wife's connection to Jeremiah Turner Reeves go to REEVES/REAVES GENEALOGY compiled by Glenn Gohr.



TURNER E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the TURNER surname, you may post these at the Turner Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Turner surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Turner e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in TURNER for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in TURNER you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.




ROOTSWEB TURNER MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the TURNER surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Turner Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any TURNER name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.





An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the TURNER family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/turner

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the TURNER lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



Some other Turner researchers and web sites include:

    Descendants of John Turner which includes information on descendants of John Turner, b. ca. 1700 Chester Co., PA, d. ca. 1768 Mecklenburg Co., NC, md. 1st, Jane Barnett, 2nd Sarah Williams. This site is maintained by David Kravetz who is distantly related to me through the Hanks family. It may be noted that Rebecca Turner of this family married a Shipley. and the Hanks family also intermarried with Shipleys.

    Jesse M. Lawrence's Family Tree Maker Online InterneTree which has an internet tree with descendants of Manuel Turner, 1814-1850, md. Sintha ___ and also reference to Jesse's mother-in-law, Mamie Lee Turner, 1908-1979. This site is maintained by Jesse M. Lawrence who is also distantly related to me through the Neville and Harris families.


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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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