Turner Family Burial Sites


My oldest son John recently told me about seeing Mary Ann Turner's (my great great grandmother) tomb stone on a web site.   When I was about 12 or 13 I spent several summers in east Texas (Wood County) at my great uncle Johnny's farm.   He took me to a number of cemeteries in the area and showed me graves of my ancestors, a number of which he had attended the funerals or were shown to him by his father and mother.  

Several years ago John and I made a tour of these same cemeteries where our kin were burried and I took pics of many of the stones.   Here are some of those (the ones in my direct line of descent).  

The pics are scaled down to 640 x 428 for the web but, I have all these pics in hi-definition.   I have numerous pics of other Antecedents member's stones if anyone's interested or curious.  

A lot of these folks are featured in Turner Tiny Tales a group of anecdotes told to me when I was a boy.  


My great great great great grandfather and grandmother, James and Neomie Callaway.   I think her name should have been spelled "Naomi" as it was spelled in the 1860 Census.   Their daughter, Mary Ann married William Armstrong Turner.   Burried in Ebenezer cemetery, Oak Grove Texas.   The Oak Grove community is in Wood County, near the intersection of 14 and 2088 (32°49'02.7"N 95°20'41.6"W) or (32.817420, -95.344891 paste this into Google Maps to see where Ebenezer is).   We found them in Alabama in 1860.


William Armstrong Turner.   My great great grandfather, rode in the war between the states, in Company 'B' of the 10th Confederate calvary from Alabama.   Son in law of James and Neomi Calloway.   William is burried in Ebenezer Cemetery at Oak Grove Texas.   Here is William Armstrong and Mary Ann in the 1860 census, along with Noah (my great grandfather) and John.   I believe the 1860 census states William was a Mechanic!


His wife Mary Ann Calloway-Turner, beside her husband William Armstrong Turner in Ebenezer in Oak Grove Texas.   Daughter of James and Neomi Calloway.  
Mary Ann was killed in the great East Texas tornado of 1919.   Neal Penix (Aunt Estelle's uncle) told me once the swath of that tornado was almost a mile wide, he showed me fields between tree lines which marked the swath.  


My great grand father Noah Richard Turner and his wife Martha Jane Fletcher-Turner.   Son of William Armstrong.   Burried in Ebenezer at Oak Grove Texas.


Andrew Ripley Turner, burried at Mesquite Cemetery in Mesquite Texas (near city lake).   My grandfather, and son of Noah R. Turner.   There is an interesting story about how he got the name "Ripley" ("Rip") in Turner Tiny Tales.


Leatha Ida Childress-Turner, my grandmother.   Burried at Mesquite Cemetery, Mesquite Texas (near city lake).


John Richard Turner (my great uncle Johnny) and his wife Estelle Mayree Penix-Turner burried at Concord Cemetery in Wood County.   He was Andrew Turner's brother and Noah Turner's son.


Ary Lee Turner, memorialized at Mesquite Cemetery, near city lake.   My father is Andrew and Leatha Turner's son.   Dad is not here, his body was creamated and the ashes spread on the farm he loved.