About 1805, YANCY TURNER married MARY DILLON from Guilford County, North Carolina. MARY’s father was ISAAC DILLON and her mother was JEMIMA BRITTAIN. MARY was born October 2, 1788, according to the Doss-Simmons-Turner family Bible, published 1857.
Children of Yancey Turner and Mary Dillon Turner
Henry Turner-1; Susannah-2 [Thomas Graves Yancey]; Yancy Turner-3
Luke Dillon-1; Daniel-2; Isaac-3; Mary-4
Jemima Turner-4, was born February 2, 1807, in Sumner County and married Joshua Doss, a brick mason, February 1, 1832, and they had five children. She died February 18, 1891, according to the Bible of her daughter, Emiline F. Doss Simmons. Joshua Doss was born September 30, 1804, and died February 5, 1862, according to the same source.
MILLEY TURNER-4, was born December 10, 1810, [Emiline’s Bible said her birth date was December 2] and married ALBERT GARNER HOLMES when she was only 13 years old. They both died in 1854, and her children were mentioned in YANCY’s estate. She would have been old enough to have remembered her grandmother, SUSANNAH TURNER DONOHO.
Senith Frances Turner-4, born December 8, 1812, married Jordan Coleman December 25, 1838, and died January 13, 1858, in Macon County. Her father’s estate mentions her heirs.
Leatha [Leathey] Turner-4, was born December 22, 1814, married Benjamin P. Wilson, May 10, 1830, in Sumner County, and moved to Allen County, Kentucky, where she died May 11, 1896.
Bartlett Yancy Turner-4, born June 30, 1817, married Margaret Foster, January 23, 1838, and died March 24, 1862, probably in Macon County. He was a Justice of the Peace of that county and wrote a very legible handwriting. Some of the other children, not withstanding the relative prosperity of the family, were illiterate. The 1850 Sumner County Census lists him as living in District 15, page 189, house 864. He is listed as age 33, born in Tennessee. Margaret A., his wife, is listed as age 30, born in Kentucky. The children at home are William Y., age 11; Mary J., age 9; Martha, age 6; Abner D., age 4; James W., age 2; and Booker A., age 1. Emiline Hilborn, age 15, is also listed in the household.
Polly [Mary] Turner-4, born June 24, 1820, first married Zachariah Fagg, at age 14, August 11, 1834. Later, she married Marcus Keen about August, 1847. The family cemetery is called "Polly Fagg" cemetery. A man by this name was in the Seminole War, and listed on the muster roll of Capt. Joseph Meador from June, 1836, to January, 1837, in Sumner. [Durham, Old Sumner.]
Matilda Turner-4, was born January 17, 1825, and married Charles Hawkins about 1843 in Sumner County. She died August 8, 1898, and is buried in the Polly Fagg Cemetery in Macon County
Emily Carolyn Turner-4, was born April 3, 1834, the youngest child, according to Emiline’s Bible. She married Alfred J. Hodges on September 16, 1850. They moved to Texas in the late 1870s. [See HODGES Chapter for his family.]
James Allen Turner-4, was born June 21, 1827, according to Emiline’s Bible, and lived in Macon County in the 1860s and 1870s. His wife was named Margaret Ann. A descendant of James A. Turner, Dorothy Gray, contributed a great deal of oral history for this family. This Turner family moved to Texas about 1895 or 1896, and Clarence Beard Turner, a son of James Allen Turner, married there in 1898.
of his sister’s daughter, Emiline F. Doss Simmons, with a birth date of October 27, 1822, making him the sixth child of YANCY and MARY. He was listed in the estate records for his father in Macon County, Tennessee. There is also a deed, recorded May 10, 1811, from Nathan Edwards to Alexander Rasco for land on Middle Fork of Martin D. Turner-4, was a son for whom little is known. He was listed in the Bible Station Camp Creek, witnessed by someone named Martin Turner. However, this could not be the son of YANCY. No descendants of this man have been traced by this author. The given name of Martin, however, makes us wonder if there is some family surnamed Martin who might be a connection.