LOWERY FAMILY TIES
Husband: John "Johnny" Leslie TURNER [I00239]
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Born: about 1905 in Tennessee, USA 1
Died: 28 AUG 1933 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Father: George Washington TURNER
Mother: Millesa "Millie" Jane RIDLEY
Spouses:
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Wife: Lillian UNKNOWN [I01165]
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Born: about 1905 in Tennessee, USA
Died:
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Mother:
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Additional Information
John "Johnny" Leslie TURNER:
Buried: 31 AUG 1933, Greenwood Memorial Park; Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1930, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
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Residence: 1920, Englewood, McMinn, Tennessee, USA
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Residence: 1910, Cumberland, Tennessee, USA
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Notes:
Johnny died in a drowning accident in Detroit, Michigan. When his mother (Millie) received the telegram of Johnny's death, Millie was devastated. Millie gathered her daughter Myrtle (grandma), son Clarence and hired a driver and a car and drove to Detroit to bring Johnny home. Grandma remembers arriving in Detroit in the middle of the night. Millie, Clarence and grandma walked into the parlor where Johnny was. Grandma said, " Johnny was stretched out on a table dress in a suit and tie." Millie "lost all strength" when they saw Johnny lying on the table. They loaded Johnny into the car and drove all the way back to Chattanooga. Their minister lived a few door down and across the street from grandma's house. When they arrived home, the minister took the drapes off his own windows in his house and put the drapes on grandma and Millies' three windows in the front room so Johnny could lay in peace until he was buried. This was relayed to me by Grandma Lowery at the Pekin Hospital on 16 February 2008. Grandma lived on Dodge Street at the time of the incident. Paul lived on the corner of Dodge and their pastor lived across the street from Grandma.
OBITUARY - Wednesday August 30, 1933 - Chattanooga Daily Times
JOHN L. TURNER - Funeral services for John L. Turner, 28, who was drown while fishing at Detroit early Saturday morning, will be held from the East Lake Baptist church at 3:30 Thursday afternoon, the Rev. W. C. Tallent and Rev. Frank Gross officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Whelan Palmer, Paul Wood, Vernon Headrick, C. O. Schoocraft, D. B. Stephens and Wayne Wall. Coulter's in charge. Mr. Turner is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillian Turner; his mother, Mrs. Millie Turner; fiver sisters, Mrs. Verlie Turner, Mrs. Ethel Morgan, Mrs. Elizabeth Coffee, Miss Myrtle Turner, all of Chattanooga; Mrs. Maggie Barefield, of Sweetwater; two brothers, Allen Turner of Andersonville, Tenn., and Clarence Turner of Chattanooga.
Marriage Notes
Married: Monroe, Tennessee, USA
Footnotes
- Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002;), Database online. Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, ED 607, roll 1057, page ,.
Record for John Turner.
- Ibid., Database online. Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, ED 607, roll 1057, page ,.
Record for John Turner.
- Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Database online. Englewood, McMinn, Tennessee, ED , roll , page ,.
Record for John Turner.
- Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Civil District 1, Cumberland, Tennessee, ED , roll.
Record for Leslie Turnes.
Revised: August 08, 2009
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