Peter Turney, Sr.’s daughter-in-law Warnie Hooper

 

Source: Book titled Glimpses into the Lives and Times of the Confederate Soldiers Known to Be Buried in City Cemetery, Winchester, Tennessee, researched and compiled by Joy Quandt Gallagher, President 1996-1998 Peter Turney Chapter #1927 United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winchester, Tennessee, 1998, pages 226-249.

 

Peter Turney, Sr. was Colonel of 1st Turney's Tennessee Infantry, CSA

Soldier born September 22, 1827, Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee, son of Hopkins Lacey Turney, Sr. and Teresa Francis

Soldier died October 19, 1903, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee

Soldier was the 29th Governor of Tennessee

Married June 10, 1851, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee, Miss Cassandra Webb         Garner, daughter of Thomas Heslip Garner, Sr. and Eliza V. Wadlington

Wife born October 18, 1835, Frankin County, Tennessee

Wife died March 28, 1857, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee

Wife buried in Winchester City Cemetery

Known children:  Thomas H. (ca. 1852-1874), Virginia "Jenney" C. (ca. 1854-    ), and            Hopkins Lacey (ca. 1857-1877)

Married second April 27, 1858, South Pittsburgh, Marion County, Tennessee, Miss      Hannah Ferguson Graham, daughter of John Graham and Aletha Roberts

Wife born December 20, 1836, Jackson County, Tennessee

Wife died October 6, 1888, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee

Wife buried beside soldier in City Cemetery, Winchester, TN

Known children:  Teresa "Tid" (1859-1939), Peter "Pete," Jr. (1861-1949), Aletha       "Letha" (1863-1944), Samuel "Sam" (1866-1955), Lowndes (1868-1932), James (1869- 

 ), Graham (died young), Woodson "Wood" (1873-1950), Hannah       "Dollie" Graham (1877-1940), and Miller Francis "Frank" (1879-    )

 

Colonel Turney's son's obituary in Thursday, December 8, 1932, The Truth and Herald, Winchester, Tennessee:

            The remains of Loundes [sic] Turney were brought to Winchester today for interment in the Turney family plot at the Wincheser [sic] cemetery.  Mr. Turney was at the Hamilton County court house when first stricken, and upon being discovered about noon Wednesday by some of the attachees of the court house, was taken to the Erlanger Hospital, where he died five hours later, never having regained consciousness.  He was a member of the Chattanooga Bar Association and had practiced his profession in that city where he had lived for a number of years.

            Mr. Turney was 65 years of age, and was the eighth son [child] of the late Peter Turney, distinguished Tennessee Governor and Supreme Court justice.  He was educated in the Winchester schools and at the University of the South at Sewanee.  On March 17, 1923, he married Mrs. Warnie Hooper Dayton, who has been very active in the United Daughters of the Confederacy and is a descendant of the Pickett family of Virginia and the Hooper family of South Carolina.

            Those who survive Mr. Turney are his wife; four brothers, Woodson Turney of Brooklyn, N.Y., Sam Turney of Nashville, Peter Turney of Birmingham, and James Turney; three sisters, Mrs. Dollie Belcher of Murfreesboro, Miss Teresa Turney of Decherd and Miss Aletha Turney of Winchester.  He was an uncle of Mrs. George Mitchell, Jr., of Decherd, and has a number of other nieces and nephews.

            A prayer service was held in Chattanooga this morning at 10:30 o'clock in the funeral parlors of Jack O'Donodue [O'Donohue], with Dr. Oliver Hart, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, officiating.  The body, accompanied by relatives and several friends, was conveyed to Winchester for interment, which was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

 

[Additional article found since publication of book: The Truth & Herald, Winchester, TN, Thursday, April 23, 1942]

 

Mrs. Turney Talks at U.D.C. Meeting in Chattanooga

 

            Mrs. Lowndes Turney, a past president of the Tennessee division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, spoke on “Mary Sharp College at Winchester” at the meeting of the Missionary Ridge Chapter, U.D.C., Friday, in Chattanooga.

            Mrs. Turney stated that this was the first college in the United States that was permitted to give an A.B. degree to women.  This was in 1853, she said.

            Mrs. Turney, the late Mrs. M. N. Whitaker and the late Mrs. Thomas McCallie, Sr., were graduates of this college.

             

 

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