Thomas Memory Turner (July 17, 1847 – September 2, 1917)[1] was a music professor. He spent many years working at the Western Lunatic Asylum of Staunton, Virginia.[2][3][4] Turner was also a watchmaker, fixing watches and jewelry as well as offering his services tuning instruments.[5][6][7]
Early years[]
Thomas Memory Turner was born on July 17, 1847 in Middletown, Virginia to A. J. Turner and Kate Aby.
Civil War[]
Turner served in the Confederacy for the duration of the American Civil War. His father A. J. was a band leader in the Stonewall Brigade. Thomas Memory was a musician alongside his father in the 5th Virginia Infantry.[8] He was later in the 14th Virginia Cavalry.[9] He continued to play in the Stonewall Brigade Band for years after the war.[10][11][12][13]
Marriages[]
Turner married Kate Grimes of Maryland, daughter of Dr. Gassaway Sellman Grimes, on February 28, 1872 in Warren County, Virginia.[14]
On February 15, 1893, he married Virginia Ann "Nannie" Wyatt at Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the residence of Hubert or Herbert Coffman. They were married by C. R. Cruikshank.[15] She died March 9, 1894 in Staunton.[16]
Lewisburg[]
Turner lived in Lewisburg, West Virginia from about 1877 until November 1879.[17][18] A son, Charles Augustus Turner, was born there. Turner returns to Lewisburg in 1889. His son Claude died there at the age of just 13, falling headforemost into a vat of boiling water.[19]
Maryland[]
In 1896–97 Turner was in Baltimore and Gaithersburg.[20][21]
References[]
- ↑ Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
- ↑ Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1891. p. 61. https://books.google.com/books?id=2p40AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1892. p. 13. https://books.google.com/books?id=0qI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ "Report of the Superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum". Staunton Spectator. December 16, 1891. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18911216.1.1&srpos=31&e=-------en-20-SS-21--txt-IN-%22T.+M.+Turner%22----#.
- ↑ "[No title"]. Staunton Spectator. July 6, 1880. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18800706.1.3&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-SS-1--txt-IN-%22T.+M.+Turner%22----#.
- ↑ "Card!". Staunton Spectator. August 2, 1881. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18810802.1.3&srpos=36&e=-------en-20-SS-21--txt-IN-%22T.+M.+Turner%22----#.
- ↑ "Watches and Jewelry". Staunton Spectator. April 27, 1880. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18800427.1.4&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22t+m+turner%22+watches------#.
- ↑ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations, compiled 1903 - 1927, documenting the period 1861 - 1865; Catalog ID: 586957; Record Group #: 109; Roll #: 429
- ↑ "Soldiers Records". http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossier_record?q=db:dossiers_augusta%20AND%20id_num:1925.
- ↑ "Hancock and English Pole". Staunton Spectator. July 6, 1880. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18800706.1.3&srpos=1&e=-------en-20-SS-1--txt-IN-%22T.+M.+Turner%22----#.
- ↑ "Staunton". The daily dispatch. February 14, 1880. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1880-02-14/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x432_from_1573%2C2962_to_4995%2C5134/.
- ↑ "The Stonewall Brigade Band". The daily dispatch. October 27, 1881. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1881-10-27/ed-1/seq-4/print/image_681x644_from_0%2C3736_to_1946%2C5576/.
- ↑ "Brief Locals". Staunton spectator and vindicator. December 23, 1896. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024720/1896-12-23/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_681x618_from_0%2C2980_to_2089%2C4876/.
- ↑ "Married". Staunton Spectator. March 5, 1872.
- ↑ "Professor Turner Weds Mrs. Nance". Richmond dispatch. February 17, 1893. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1893-02-17/ed-1/seq-4/print/image_681x432_from_449%2C8521_to_2094%2C9566/.
- ↑ "Virginia News". Alexandria Gazette. March 10, 1894. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1894-03-10/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x432_from_629%2C4886_to_4221%2C7167/.
- ↑ "Monroe County, West Virginia - Monroe/Border Watchman Surname Index,October - December 1877". http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/monroe/newspaper/bordr-z.txt.
- ↑ "Personals". Staunton Spectator. November 18, 1879. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=SS18791118.1.3&srpos=3&e=------187-en-20-SS-1--txt-IN-+%22A.+J.+Turner%22----#.
- ↑ "News of the Day". Alexandria Gazette. September 7, 1889. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1889-09-07/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x432_from_1680%2C1541_to_3083%2C2432/.
- ↑ "Death of Mrs. Turner". Staunton spectator and vindicator. December 30, 1896. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024720/1896-12-30/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_681x432_from_1946%2C4407_to_4947%2C6312/.
- ↑ "Personal". Staunton spectator and vindicator. March 4, 1897. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024720/1897-03-04/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_681x432_from_679%2C813_to_2011%2C1659/.
External links[]
- T. M. Turner at Find a Grave
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