1830 Census, Caswell Co., NC Handwritten page 304 Image 83/112 Line 1 Edmund Turner 3 Males U 5 1 M 20-30 1 F 30-40 He had 5 slaves Can't identify Edmund in 1840 Census but he could have been relocating to Greene Co. MO. Index to the Springfield (MO) Land Office Sales Book shows entries for land that was in Greene Co. MO: Edmund Turner 23 Aug 1844--Sec 5, T29, R20 -- 40.25 acres 23 Aug 1844 -- Sec 5, T29, R20 -- 80.47 acres 4 Sep 1844 -- Sec 5, T29, R20 -- 80.45 acres Bureau of Land Management records show that Edmund's land was in the same Section that Thomas Potter had land. Edmund Turner's land was in the adjacent section to that of James C. and then James' widow Mary M. Turner's lands. James C. Turner died in 1847 and Edmund Turner was a witness for his will. The following Will abstract has been found which appears in Will Book A, Greene Co. MO: Will of James C. Turner Heir: Mary M. Turner Administrators: Mary M. Turner; son, Thomas H. Turner Date: 22 March 1845 Proved 23 December 1847 Witnesses: James Whitmore, Edmond Turner Judge of Probate: William C. Price By 1850, Edmund Turner had moved to Marshall Co., MS: 1850 Census, Marshall Co., MS, Northern Division (image 165/210) p. 357 #1073-1073 Edmond Turner-------48 M-----NC Mary A.------------------52 F-----NC Nathaniel---------------23 M-----NC William C.-------------21 M------NC Bartlett Y.-------------13 M------TN John D. E___-----------7 M------NC Mary C.-----------------4 F--------MO The name that I can't make out on the child John D. E..... It could be Edmund but it is not clearly that. Edmund Turner here is almost certainly the Edmund Turner who married Mary Slade in Caswell Co., NC. In the "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago: GoodSpeed Publishers, 1890), there is a profile of two sons of Edmund Turner and Mary Slade--Capt. B. (Bartlett) Y. Turner and Nathan S. Turner-- that state that their father Edmund Turner and mother Mary Slade were natives of Caswell Co., NC. It chronicles the families migration from NC briefly to TN (where Bartlett Y. Turner was born), then in 1844 to Missouri where he supposedly remained 10 years, subsequently moving to Mississippi (located in Marshall Co. on 1850 Census) before moving to Phillips Co. AR in 1857 where he and his wife were reported to have died in 1858. The write up stated (ambigously however) that the father of Edmund Turner (b. c 1802) was an Edmund Turner Sr. a native of Maryland who was a Rev. War Soldier. Whether this is correct is not known. There does not appear to be an older Edmund Turner in Caswell Co. records. The exact relationship between Edmund Turner and James C. Turner has not been discovered but it is belived that they likely were related. I had been sent a genealogy outline of someone's research which listed Edmund Turner and James C. Turner as children of Thomas Turner who died in 1823 in Caswell Co., NC. Does anyone have the estate papers for Thomas Turner? Seeking proof. There was a Renfro Turner who is a child of Bartlett Y. Turner (and his third wife Ella Renfro) who was born Nov. 12, 1880 and was in Crittenden Co., MO for his registration for WWI. His wife was Elise Ford. He and Elise appear to have had a son named Renfro Turner Jr. born about 1913. Does anyone recognize this name? I can't find Renfro Turner after the 1920 Census where he was enumerated in Crittenden Co., MO. We need this group documented in the Turner DNA Project.