Joe Turner was my 2X great grandfather. I have been able to follow him from the age of twelve in a slave census; through several lists of the enslaved in Wiley Turner’s probate record. Joe Turner was my maternal grandmother Fannie Turner’s grandfather. When Fannie was about three, her father Howard Turner and his father, … Continue reading Timeline for Joe Turner, Hayneville, Lowndes County AL (1837 -1919)
Other posts about my 2X great grandfather, Joseph Turner of Lowndes County, Alabama. Joseph Turner’s Will Joe Turner – Land, Mules and Courts Joe Turner in the 1852 Estate File of Wiley Turner Timeline for Joe Turner, Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama Joe Turner Constable – 1871, Lowndes County, Alabama Lowndes County Negroes Make Fine Showing … Continue reading Joe Turner’s Death Certificate
On my first trip to the local Family Search Center several weeks ago, the microfilm machine broke as the second roll of film was being loaded. I was afraid the ancient machine would never be fixed so that I could continue my research. Earlier this week the volunteer at the center called to let me … Continue reading Joe Turner Land Transaction – August 11, 1868
Recently I went to the nearby Family Search Center to look at some Lowndes County Alabama property records from the 1870s on microfilm. I hoped to find more details about Joe and Emma Turner, my 2X great grandparents. I also planned to look at records for other formerly enslaved Turners mentioned in Wiley Turner’s probate … Continue reading Joe Turner & Wife Emma Turner Convey Land – 1872
In 2003 I purchased a copy of the book “Lowndes Court House – A Chronicle of Hayneville, an Alabama Black Belt Village 1820 – 1900”, a book of reminiscences by Mildred Brewer Russell. In the chapter “Reconstruction And After, 1865 – 1900 I found my great great grandfather, Joe Turner, mentioned as one of the Negro … Continue reading Joe Turner Constable -1871, Lowndes County Alabama
Recently I decided to find the plantation where my 2X great grandparents, Joe and Emma Turner were enslaved. I started by looking at white Turners in Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama where my family lived in 1870. I found Wiley Turner and his brother Thomas Turner. Both died in 1851. Wiley’s estate file contained several lists … Continue reading Joe Turner in the 1852 Estate File of Wiley Turner – Lowndes County, Alabama
After watching Episode 3 of Many Rivers to Cross in which the Civil War; black soldiers, contraband; freedom; 40 acres and a mule; suffrage and loss of it; the all black town of Mount Bayou, MS; lynching and finally Plessey vs. Ferguson were discussed, it took me a minute to come up with a tie … Continue reading Joe Turner – Land, Mules and Courts
My grandmother Fannie Turner Graham’s father was named Howard Turner. She did not have a photograph of him but said he looked like her grandfather, Dock Allen and my grandfather, Mershell Graham. When my grandmother was four, her father Howard was killed at a barbeque. Her parents, Howard and Jennie (Allen) Turner had been talking … Continue reading Emma and Joe Turner of Gordensville, Lowndes County, Alabama
Timeline for Joe Turner – Hayneville, Lowndes County, AlabamaJoe Turner – Land, Mules and CourtsJoe Turner in the 1852 Estate File of Wiley TurnerFamily Groups in Wiley Turner’s Probate File – 1852Doctors Visits to the Turner Plantation 1854Second Inventory of Wiley Turner – 1856Third Inventory of Wiley Turner – 1858Two Coffins Betsy and Austin 1859 … Continue reading The Turners – Lowndes County, Alabama
These are the family groups I picked out from the first (1852) appraisment done of Wiley Turner’s Lowndes County, Alabama estate. I will follow those I can through the other three lists and then see what families I can find in the 1870 census. My 2X great grandfather, Joseph Turner, is listed as “Joe (white)” … Continue reading Family Groups In Wiley Turner’s Probate File – 1852