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I am seeking information on Alfred Turner of Yalobusha Co., MS. The death certificate of his son Louis Edgar Turner, of Coffeeville, Yalobusha Co., lists Alfred as his father and Anna Carr as his mother. From Census records for MS, 1840, 1850 and 1860, I have placed Alfred’s birth as around 1800, having been born in Vermont. He moved first to NC, where apparently he married Ann or Anna Carr. Again, from Census records, she was born about 1807-1810 in NC.
It is possible that Alfred and his family moved first to Madison Co., TN around 1830. There is a 1830 Census record for an Alfred Turner and wife, whose ages are consistent with those of Alfred and Anna of Yalobusha. Co. The family would have then moved to MS sometime between 1835 and 1840, about the time of the ‘Choctaw Cession.’ [Louis Edgar Turner married Nannie Emily Brewer, a descendant to Sackfield Brewer. A bio of his grandson, Guy Sackville Turner, supports the idea that Alfred was born in Vermont.]
There is another family of Carrs that moved from New Hampshire to Yalobusha Co., MS in the 1830-1840s range. Due to the similarity of circumstances, I was drawn to investigate them. However, clearly my Anne Carr is not directly related to the New Hampshire Carrs, but it is possible she may be a cousin.
The case of Tilly Wentworth Carr provides a time-line closely paralleling that of Alfred Turner and Anne Carr. The Carrs are reported on in a contemporary account given in a Oct. 1850 edition of the “New England Historical & Genealogical Register.” There the entry appears: “Tilly Wentworth, born Nov. 5, 1801, settled in Gates Co., N.C., there married in 1825, Elizabeth the only daughter of Keadah Ballard, in 1841 moved to Yalla Busha Co., (Coffeesville) Miss., where he now resides, having eight daughters and two sons, ... .” Tilly seems to have followed a path similar to that of Alfred Turner. Other members of the Carr family, children of Dr. Moses Carr, also joined Tilly in moving to Yalobusha Co.
The reference for the NEHGR article is:
New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. IV, No. IV, "Notes on the Wentworth Family," Oct. 1850, pp. 321 388.
The New England Genealogical Register, Vols. 1 20, 1847 1866, Disc 1, Broderbund, 1996.
Still, I am lost trying to connect to Alfred Turner’s Vermont roots.
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