Nelson Seymour Trowbridge and Adeline Martha Mann Turner were cousins whose families moved to Jackson CA in the gold rush. They grew up and had six children each. Two of their kids married each other and became my great grandparents. You can contact me at mlwilson at ucsc dot edu.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Jessie Gertrude Turner


 With sister Olive, and with niece Elliot:
  

With Elliot, Olive, and husband Fred:


The second-youngest Turner sibling, born Jan. 4, 1876, in Jackson CA.  She attended Cal (class of 1897), and married Frederick Octavius Hurt, who was from England.  Family lore is that he proposed to her by Strawberry Creek on the Cal campus. They lived in Berkeley in a house that they had built at 2197 Regent St.

The 1900 Census shows her living with her parents at age 24, and it says she's a university teacher.

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