Although the marker says she was born in 1876 - the digits are reversed. She was already age 3 in the 1870 census. Also she married Francis Marion Turner, 23 Jan 1887, so the earlier birth year is much more reasonable.
Children were:
Troy Lee Turner, b. Apr 1888 - 1931
Lulu Eugenia, b. Jul 1889 - 1981
Lula Monet Turner, b. Nov 1894
John Jefferson Turner, b. Apr 1896 - 1965
Willa Mae Turner, b. Jul 1898 - 1986
Theodore Franklin Turner, b. 1906
Essie Hays, b. 1908
"Obituaries, Death Notices & News Items Extracted from the Van Buren Press Argus 1917"; Fran Alverson Warren, p.39
11 May 1917
DIED OF PELLAGRA AT LITTLE ROCK
Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, wife of Marion Turner, county jailer, died in Little Rock Monday night and the remains will arrive in Van Buren early Wednesday morning. Arrangements have not been completed for the funeral.
Mrs. Turner was a victim of pellagra and was sent to a Little Rock hospital for treatment, but the ravages of the disease had reached a point where medical treatment was to no avail.
Note: Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency caused by the chronic lack of niacin in the diet. It was epidemic in the Southern U.S. in the early 1920's. Much of the corn grown at that time was not being treated with lime which had made the niacin nutritionally available. The Native Americans had used lime, but the importance of doing so was not understood. Twice as many women as men were affected.
Although the marker says she was born in 1876 - the digits are reversed. She was already age 3 in the 1870 census. Also she married Francis Marion Turner, 23 Jan 1887, so the earlier birth year is much more reasonable.
Children were:
Troy Lee Turner, b. Apr 1888 - 1931
Lulu Eugenia, b. Jul 1889 - 1981
Lula Monet Turner, b. Nov 1894
John Jefferson Turner, b. Apr 1896 - 1965
Willa Mae Turner, b. Jul 1898 - 1986
Theodore Franklin Turner, b. 1906
Essie Hays, b. 1908
"Obituaries, Death Notices & News Items Extracted from the Van Buren Press Argus 1917"; Fran Alverson Warren, p.39
11 May 1917
DIED OF PELLAGRA AT LITTLE ROCK
Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, wife of Marion Turner, county jailer, died in Little Rock Monday night and the remains will arrive in Van Buren early Wednesday morning. Arrangements have not been completed for the funeral.
Mrs. Turner was a victim of pellagra and was sent to a Little Rock hospital for treatment, but the ravages of the disease had reached a point where medical treatment was to no avail.
Note: Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency caused by the chronic lack of niacin in the diet. It was epidemic in the Southern U.S. in the early 1920's. Much of the corn grown at that time was not being treated with lime which had made the niacin nutritionally available. The Native Americans had used lime, but the importance of doing so was not understood. Twice as many women as men were affected.
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