Notes
After death of wife and son Claudie, Frank was overcome with grief and deserted his family, never heard from again. Martha Rebecca and Lizzie went to live with John Joseph Turner Family (1900 Census).
Francis Turner's name, DOB are on the "Births" page of the Isaac Turner Family Bible on the line below that of Bettie Turner, but yellowed tape is obscuring the passage, making it unreadable in the RAS digital photograph. It is readable when viewed in person.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=joereidscott&id=I11413
Father of Martha Rebecca and Lizzie and baby son Claudie. Grief stricken in losing his baby son and beloved wife Jenny, Franklin left home in desperation. His little girls were sent to live with relatives. Mattie, was sent to live the Robison's and Lizzie with the Melton's, Jennie's parents. The girls each received Guatemalan coins from their father. Mildred, daughter of Mattie, had her mothers coins at her death. Do not know w ho has the coins at this time. Perhaps Ann Moore Guinn, daughter of Rosemary Moore Driver.
Frank disappeared after the death of his wife.

• Married: 21 MAY 1882 in Hill County, Texas ^{5 6 7 8}

1. Martha Rebecca TURNER b: 27 JUN 1883 in Abbott, Hill, Texas
2. Margaret (Mary) Elizabeth (Lizzie) TURNER b: 19 OCT 1884 in Abbott, Hill, Texas
3. Claude Melton TURNER b: 19 APR 1887 in Abbott, Hill, Texas

1. Abbrev: Turner Family Bible remnants
   Title: unknown, Turner Family Bible remnants (digital photographs of original document) (unknown)
   Note:
   4 pages from the Turner Family Bible, ca 1855, survive, in fair condition, repaired with clear tape which distorted some of the writing, at least 2 writing styles, 2 writing instruments used, 1st entry 1855, last entry believed to be 1901
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (scan/digital photo of original image)
   
   Quality: 3
2. Abbrev: 1860 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule; NARA Microfilm Publication M653
   Title: 1860 United States Federal Census.
   Note:
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: Ancestry.com
   Provo, Utah
   USA
   Note:
   (downloaded digital image)
   
   Page: Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: District 10, De Kalb, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1247; Page: 158; Image: 319.
   Quality: 3
   Text:
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
3. Abbrev: 1870 United States Federal Census
   Title: United States. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870. Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Administration. M593, RG29, 1,761 rolls., 1870 United States Federal Census (scans of original images) (Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: 1870.)
   Note:
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (scan/digital photo of original image)
   
   Page: Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: District 6, Cannon, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1516; Page: 161; Image: 321.
   Quality: 3
   Text:
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
4. Abbrev: 1880 United States Federal Census
   Title: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls., 1880 United States Federal Census (scans of original images) (Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
   Note:
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (scan/digital photo of original image)
   
   Page: Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: , Hill, Texas; Roll: T9_1311; Family History Film: 1255311; Page: 278.2000; Enumeration District: 70; .
   Quality: 3
   Text:
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
5. Abbrev: Turner Family Bible remnants
   Title: unknown, Turner Family Bible remnants (digital photographs of original document) (unknown)
   Note:
   4 pages from the Turner Family Bible, ca 1855, survive, in fair condition, repaired with clear tape which distorted some of the writing, at least 2 writing styles, 2 writing instruments used, 1st entry 1855, last entry believed to be 1901
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (scan/digital photo of original image)
   
   Text: "? ? Turner & Jinnie Melton was Married May 21st 188?"
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
6. Abbrev: Graham-Mason Cemetery Records
   Title: Contributed by Judy Graham, Jul 22, 2003 [judygaylegraham@hotmail.com]. Total records = 24, Graham-Mason Cemetery Records (www.interment.net)
   Note:
   Graham-Mason Cemetery, Irene, Hill, TX
   1.4 miles SE of Irene, TX on FM 1946, R 0.2 miles on CR 3449, down 2nd gravel road
   
   
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (from compiled online database)
   
   Text: Turner, Jennie Margaret Melton, b. 21 Mar 1864, d. 21 May 1887, wife of Francis Lee Turner
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
7. Abbrev: Jennie Margaret Melton Turner Headstone
   Title: Graham-Mason Cemetery Headstone
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (original digital photograph)
   
   Page: original digital image by RAS
   Text: "Mother"
   Jennie Margaret Melton
   Wife of
   Francis Lee Turner
   Mar 21, 1864~May 21, 1887
   [Entry Recording Date : 12 MAY 2008]
8. Abbrev: "Record of William A Graham, Sarah Hall Graham & d
   Title: Margaret Elizabeth Turner Ware, "Record of William A Graham, Sarah Hall Graham & descendants" (ca 1948)
   Note:
   This is a scanned copy of an original document typed and hand-written by Margaret Elizabeth Turner Ware,
   the granddaughter of William A Mason. Copy was received per email from Judy Graham in July 2006.
   Repository:
   Name: RAS Private Collection (scan/digital photo of original image)
   
   Text: "Jennie Margaret Melton married Francis Lee Turner"
   "... until Jennies death near Axtell, McLennan Co on May 21 1887, five years to the day onwhich (sic) she was married..."
   [Entry Recording Date : 20 MAY 2008]