Francis Marion Turner

Francis Marion Turner

• Francis Marion Turner was born in May 1852 possibly in New Jersey or Arkansas.
• He married Martha Elizabeth Jennings, daughter of William Staple Jennings and Elizabeth Matilda Massey, on 8 February 1891 in Erath County, Texas.
• Francis Marion Turner and Martha Elizabeth Jennings appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Kerr County, Texas. Other members of the household included Xie Elizabeth Turner and William Staple Jennings. Also in the household were children Henry M. (age 6), and Thomas A. (1), and Mattie's sister and brother Alice D. (20) and William H. (10) Jennings, as well as stock herders Edward C. Born and Carlos Santos.
• He was a stock raiser, according to the 1900 census.
• Francis Marion Turner and Martha Elizabeth Jennings appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, at 1211 Avenue D. Other members of the household included Xie Elizabeth Turner. Also in the household were children Henry May (age 16), T. A. (11) and Clara (9), and Mattie's brother w. H. Jennings (21).
• He was a stock man and ranch farmer, according to the 1910 census.
• Francis Marion Turner died on 25 May 1910 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas.
• Martha Elizabeth Jennings became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at San Antonio City Cemetery #3, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 25 July 1946 in the Kerrville Mountain Sun: Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Smith Chapel for Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Turner, 75, who died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. P. Lacey in Peterson Heights. Rev. Vernon Shaw, pastor of the First Baptist Church, and Rev. A. J. Carson, a Baptist minister, officiated and interment was in Nichols Cemetery. [:CR;]      Mrs. Turner was a native of Erath County, and had made her home in Kerr County for almost 50 years. After the death of her husband, F. M. Turner, which occurred about 35 years ago, she made her home with her father, the late W. S. Jennings, and her sister, Miss Daisy Jennings. [:CR;]      After her health had begun to fail she resided with her daughters, Mrs. E. H. Nichols, and Mrs. Lacey, who cared for her during her illness. [:CR;]      The survivors are four children, Mrs. Nichols, and Mrs Lac[e]y of Kerrville; H. M. Turner, Houston; and T. A. Turner, San Antonio; two sisters, Miss Jennings and Mrs. Otto Kittel, Kerrville, and one brother, W. H. Jennings of Pascagoula, Miss. There are seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. [:CR;]      The pallbearers were A. B. Burton, Roland V. Nichols, Carl A. Morriss, E. B. Henry, J. A. Meredith and Frank Fisher.

• Last Edited: 15 Mar 2017