Turner - Fairview Cemetery - Van Buren, AR
Posted by: linkys
N 35° 26.444 W 094° 21.109
15S E 377306 N 3922759
Broken column marker of a wife who died too young.
Waymark Code: WMF25A
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 08/10/2012
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The following is from the Find A Grave page for Violet P Turner:
"History of Crawford County, Arkansas p. 484 ... A large tombstone to Jesse Turner, "a native of Orange Co., NC, but during and ever since the territorial days, a res of Arkansa," stands on a little plot of ground where the pioneer is buried between the bodies of his first and second wife. Violet P. Turner, born in Alleghany Co., PA, 1817-1843, it is said was the wife of his heart, and Rebecca Allen, an Englishwoman and his second wife, was the wife of intellect. Whatever the story, there is a broken column, which stands as it was originally made, marking the grave of his first wife and the grave of Rebecca Allen Turner is unmarked." Source