Turley Family Photographs
This collection consists of the Turley family photo album, two photographs, and two negatives. Also represented in the album are family relatives, such as the McFarlands.
Dates
- circa 1885-circa 1900
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection consists of the Turley family photo album, two photographs, and two negatives. Also represented in the album are family relatives, such as the McFarlands.
Biographical/Historical Note
William Holliday Turley, lawyer and politician, was born on August 23, 1826, to Thomas and Desdemona (Taylor) Turley. He was first married in 1856 to Elizabeth Cocke (1835-1859). During the Civil War, Union soldiers captured Turley while selling cotton to Confederate soldiers and imprisoned him in Johnson's Island, Ohio, for three years. In 1866, Turley married Mary Ann McFarland (1840-1876), daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Scott McFarland. The couple had seven children: Mary McFarland, Margaret, Jessie, Annie, William H. Jr., Emma, and Ellen Nellie. Turley died September 20, 1899, and is buried in Old Gray Cemetery in Knox County.
Mary McFarland Turley (1868-1943) married Charles McRee Wilson (1870-1919) in 1896. They had a daughter named Mary McFarland "Mary Mac" Wilson (1908-1999); she married Robert Dumont Franklin in 1934.
Margaret "Maggie" Turley (1869-1945) married Edward Mark Grant (1867-1959), mayor of Morristown (1903-06, 1911-14), in 1888. They had two daughters, Jessie Frances (1890-1919) and Gladys Turley (1894-1993).
Jessie Lee Turley (1870-1888) married Algernon Sidney Nelson (1860-1921) in 1884. The couple had one daughter, Margaret Nelson (1886-1950).
Annie Turley (1872-1946) never married.
Emma Turley (1874-1956) married Jerome E. Harrison in 1898. They had one daughter, Dorothy Turley, in 1899.
Ellen Folsom "Nell/Nellie" Turley (b. 1876) married L. Bascom Williams in 1900. They had a daughter named Sara Ellen in 1901.
Arrangement
Collection consists of two folders.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository