Family: [Unknown] Turner / Retha Walker (F457)

• Father | Male [Unknown] Turner

  
  

  Born
  Died
  Buried
  Married	Bef 1820  [1, 2]	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA  [1, 2]
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Retha Walker

  
  

  Born	Abt 1799	Georgia, USA
  Died	Aft 1850
  Buried
  Other Spouse	Thomas Adams | F458
  Married	Between 1823-1850
  Father	(Progenitor) Walker | F1130 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth (--?--) | F1130 Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Married: No female is present in the home of Elizabeth Walker in the 1820 census, when Ritha would have been about age 21. She was named as "Ritha Turner" in the 1823 deed of gifts from Elizabeth Walker to Elijah Walker. Ritha was probably married between 1815 and 1820 to an unidentified Turner male. The most likely candidates are: John Turner, Jr. Samuel Turner William Turner All of the above are found in the 1820 Dickson County census, and have an apparent wife of the right age to be Ritha. [See document "Walker Ritha 1799 Family" for a complete listing of Turner households, and reasoning.] Internet sources indicate that Samuel Turner of Dickson County was enumerated in 1840 Johnson County, Arkansas. Johnson County, Arkansas, Forum, GenForum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/ : accessed 1 June 2011), posting, subject "Samuel Turner TN-AR," posted by Sharon I. Cauley (sicauley@snider.net), 3 March 2000. Stating: "I have just received a book titled "Primal Families of Yellow Creek". It details the Turner family in TN in 1804. Samuel Turner moved his family to Johnson County AR in the mid 1830's. His son Jesse Norris Turner had a son named Samuel Howard Turner and a granddaughter named Mary Turner. I am from this line." "Elisha Turner," Dickson-Online (http://dickson-online.com : accessed 1 June 2011). Stating: "Elisha Turner was born in North Carolina in 1794. He is believed to be the son of John Turner and his wife Elizabeth Dillard. Elisha Turner is enumerated in Dickson County in the 1820 Census living in the Yellow Creek area. During the War of 1812 he served as a corporal under the command of M. Molton, in the regiment of Col. Searcy. He married Susan May. . . Sept. 1811. She may have been the daughter of Sterling May. They were the parents of 10 children. Elisha Turner died 3rd of September 1831 at Henderson County, Tennessee. After his death his widow moved to Johnson Co., Arkansas. ( She lived next to Samuel Turner in the 1840 Census). The 1840 Johnson County enumeration of Samuel Turner is difficult to read, but it does reflect a female between 40-50 which could be Retha. Additionally, there were females 30-40 and 50-60.

  
  

• Sources

  [S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts. [S1325] Dickson County, Tennessee, Deed Book C: 452, deed of gifts, Elizabeth Walker to Elijah Walker (1823); FHL microfilm no. 497,422.