This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Love, Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xUB.2ACE/4228 Message Board Post: I am trying to solve a mystery and wonder if someone out there might be able to help. My father-in-law was estranged from his father since very early childhood after his parents, Jessie Green Turner and Gertrude Jane Tackett divorced. After my mother-in-law died, I discovered a photo in her possessions on which she had written "Paul's grandmother." In another handwriting on the back of the unmailed, postcard-type photo of the woman were the words "Mary A. Brown, Spurgeon, North Carolina." I am attaching the photo in hopes that someone may recognize her and perhaps give me some information. My father-in-law had two grandmothers and a great grandmother named Mary. His paternal grandmother was Mary Ann or Jayne Love, the daughter of Noah Love and Dicy Love who died prior to her marriage to William Marshall Turner in January of 1890 in Ashe County, NC. This information came from their marriage license. She was born in North Carolina around 1869 or 1870. On death certificates of some of her children, her name is listed as Mary Ann Love. Mary A. Turner is listed with William M. Turner through the 1910 census in Mercer County, West Virginia. In 1920, William is listed with the children and a much younger wife also named Mary who was born in West Virginia. I assumed that Mary Love Turner died, but perhaps she and William divorced and she remarried. His maternal grandmother was Mary S. Beverly Tackett, born in Virginia and, to my knowledge, never lived in North Carolina or had any connections to a Brown. The paternal great grandmother was Mary Roark Turner, born in 1846 in Ashe County, NC, and died in 1910. She was married to James Sanford Turner also from Ashe County, NC. I don't see any reason why her name ever would have been Brown. If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.