For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.

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Alonza Turner was born on Thursday, April 14, 1910 in Lowndes County, Alabama. He was the 5th child of 35 year old farmer Alonza Turner and his wife 28 year old Galvester. The family included four other children: Nellie (7), Howard (5), Eddie (4), and Willie M. (2). Galvester had birthed five children and all five were alive. According to the 1910 Census, both parents were literate. The two oldest children had attended school. They rented their land.

On the same page there are three other households of Turners. Near the top of the page baby Alonza’s grandfather lived with his second wife, Luella, and their four children. Luella was literate, Joe was not. Their two oldest children were in school. Luella had birthed five children and all were alive. The oldest was born before she married Joe and was living with her parents. They owned their farm.

Baby Alonza’s uncle Joe and his wife Emma lived next door with their their four year old granddaughter. Joe was literate. Emma was not. Emma had birthed one child and she was alive and living down the road. They rented their farm.

Next is Alonza’s family. Below them lived Joe and Emma’s daughter, Fanny and her baby daughter. Fanny was literate and owned her house. She has birthed two children and both were alive. The older one was counted up with her parents.

Alonza Turner, the father, was the brother of my great grandfather Howard Turner. I do not have any photographs of this branch of the family.