Jesse William De Garmo Turner

"Bill" was the oldest of the Turner siblings, born June 24, 1865, in Jackson CA, a good 13 years older than his youngest brother, my great-grandfather Wallace.  He married a second cousin on his father's side, Jessie Gertrude Skinner (grand-daughter of Peter Helmer Turner, one of Jesse Foote Turner's brothers).  Bill was the only Turner sibling who left California -- he and Jessie made their home in Sioux City, Iowa, near Jessie's parents. 

At age 14, in Amador County, Bill was an apprentice druggist (1880 Census).  By age 21, when the rest of his immediate family had moved to the bay area, he was living in San Diego and working as an insurance agent (California voter registry).

 Jessie was born in Wisconsin, Feb 1861 (1900 census), the was the oldest of four children of Elisha William Skinner and Clarinda (Clara) Gertrude Turner (Peter Helmer Turner's daughter).  In 1870 when she was 9 they lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and her father was a manufacturer.  In 1880 at age 19 she was still living with her parents, in Sioux City, Iowa.  Her father was now a sewing machine agent.

I don't know where Bill and Jessie met and got to know each other, but they married on 16 Oct, 1888. Over the years Bill worked as a hay dealer, coal and wood dealer, and real estate agent.  He applied for a passport in 1893, and in 1895 they had a domestic living with them, so they must have been reasonably well off.  Their religion was Congregational.  They had six children: William (b. Sept 1889), Elisha (b. July, 1891),  John (b. June 1892), Olive (b. Aug 1895), Helen (b. Aug 1897), and Clarence (b. 1900). Between 1895 and 1897 the family moved to Illinois.  By 1910, Jessie's widowed mother was living with them.

Bill died May 24, 1905, at the age of 49.  In 1920, the widowed Jessie was living in Chicago with her son Elisha, age 28, working as a mechanic; daughter Helen, age 22, working as a biologist at a school; and son Helmer, age 18.