Wallace Foote Turner

Wallace Foot Turner (or Wallace Foote Turner) was the youngest of the Turner siblings.  Born August 16, 1878 in Jackson CA, he moved as a child with his mother and siblings to San Francisco and then Berkeley.  He attended Cal, graduating in 1905, at the age of 27.  (Why the delay in going to college?)  Starting in 1907 he may have lived in Glenn Ellen along with his mother Adeline Mann Turner, sister Olive Turner Toye, and niece Adeline Toye, commuting to Vallejo to teach while the family ran a poultry farm together.  (Adeline Toye Cox's oral history mentions an uncle in this context, and Wallace seems like the only possibility.)  This would also fit with the family story that he courted Kate Elliot Trowbridge when she was a piano teacher in -- memories vary -- Ione or Glen Ellen.  (The Trowbridge parents and some children moved to Glen Ellen in 1904, also to do poultry farming -- Trowbridge Genealogy.  This was probably not a coincidence.  The Turner mom and the Trowbridge dad were first cousins who grew up together in Jackson, so they presumably stayed in touch.)

Wallace and Kate Elliot married October 24, 1908, in Oakland. He was eight years older than her.  Their first child, Kate Elliot Jr., was born Dec. 2 1909, in Esparto, where Wallace had a teaching position.  Their second child, Wallace Foot Jr., was born Sept. 21 1912 in Ione.  According to a living family member, he was the superintendent of Preston, The California boys reformatory.  He eventually took a teaching position in Santa Barbara, where [fill in details].  Their third child, Adeline Ruth, was born there Nov. 26, 1916.

Near the end of WWI (for about the last 18 months of it) he went to Europe with the YMCA, and returned with health problems that incapacitated him.  He was unable to work, and the family moved inland to Lancaster CA for his health.  The family ran a small dairy farm there.  He died May 31, 1922, at the age of 43.

The top right picture is intriguing.  It's a tintype that was found in Elliot Jr.'s collection.  The young man is clearly Wallace, but is the woman Kate Elliot?  The nose, mouth, and eyebrows look right, not so much the eyes or hair.  But it seems unlikely that Elliot Jr. would have kept a photo of her father and another woman!  If it is her, then this was probably taken during their courtship, perhaps in Glenn Ellen or somewhere they went on a day trip?

The bottom two photos are from the 1914 and 1916 yearbooks of Santa Barbara High School.