The Turner siblings in the Bay Area

In the 1880's, we stopped being a gold-rush country family and became an urban Bay Area family. San Francisco and Oakland had grown quickly over the previous few decades into "real" cities.  San Francisco was a center for banking and trade, and one of the largest cities in the United States. Oakland had become the western terminus of the transcontinental railroad about twenty years earlier, and already had Mills College.  The city of Berkeley was beginning to grow around the new University.

Around 1882 or 1883 Adeline went to San Francisco to assess the situation for moving, possibly because of lack of opportunities in Jackson, or because of Clarence's drinking problem.  Olive, age 14 or 15, was left in charge of the family in Jackson.  (Clarence and oldest brother Jesse were presumably still there too, but not expected to deal with housekeeping and childcare.)

Oldest brother Jesse W. D. Turner may or may not have moved with them, but he parted ways with the rest of the family some time around then.  By 1886, at age 21, he was living in San Diego working as an insurance agent, and two years after that he married his second cousin on his father's side, Jessie Skinner.  From then on they lived in the midwest in close proximity to her family.  But the rest of the Turner family settled in the Bay Area.

By 1888, the family was living in San Francisco. Adeline's brother Henry Rice Mann Jr. was a well-to-do businessman, running an insurance company (Mann & Wilson) and serving in the state legislature.  He gave Clarence a job as a bookkeeper, and, of the kids, at least Olive also worked at the insurance company.  (Chester may have as well, since he is listed as working as a "clerk.")

From the Morning Call newspaper, San Francisco, August 21, 1893.

The family moved a few times within San Francisco, and then some time between 1890 and 1894 they moved to Berkeley, to the house at 2239 Dwight Way, which they bought from a relative, and which Adeline ran as a boarding house.  Clarence's mother Ellen deGarmo Turner, widowed since 1871, lived with them.

Around this time the kids started leaving the house.  Olive, who was still commuting to San Francisco for work, met Fred Toye through a co-worker, and they married in 1894.  Margaret Adeline Toye (Adeline Cox), the first grandchild, was born in 1895.  In 1896 Chester married May Noble.  Jessie attended Cal from 1893-97, and married Fred Hurt in 1900.  The family story is that Fred proposed to her by Strawberry Creek on the Cal campus. Henry married Marie Embury in 1901.  Grandchildren started to happen.

Olive and Fred:
1895 - Margaret Adeline
1900 - Frederick Wilbur

Henry and Marie:
1906 - Marie Adeline
1910 - Phyllis Embury
1912 - Henry Mann

Chester and May:
No children

Jessie and Fred:
1901 - Arthur Edwin
1903 - Fred Elvan "Fritz"
1907 - Olive Elsie

Wallace and Kate Elliot:
1909 - Kate Elliot
1912 - Wallace Foot
1916 - Adeline Ruth

Great-grandma Ellen died in 1903 and Grandpa Clarence died around 1905 (need to verify source, but definitely before 1910), and Adeline went to live with various of her children.  Around 1907, Adeline and at least some of the family moved to Glenn Ellen in the north bay to do poultry farming, along with Adeline's cousin Nelson Trowbridge and his family.  Olive and her kids were there, but Fred stayed in Alameda for work.  Wallace may have been there too, commuting to Vallejo to teach.  This would fit with the Cox oral history, which says that she went to keep house for her youngest son, then unmarried.  Glenn Ellen is probably where he courted Kate Elliot, one of Nelson Trowbridge's daughters.  The family story is that she was a piano teacher at the time.  Adeline ended up living with Olive and Fred and their children back in Alameda.

Wallace and Kate Elliot moved away from the Bay Area for various teaching positions for Wallace around California, ending up in Santa Barbara. Their children were all born away from the Bay Area.  The other cousins all grew up in the Bay Area and knew each other.  Margaret Adeline Toye was the oldest cousin by several years, but some of the other cousins were fairly close in age.  (There were also cousins through Jesse W. D. Turner, clustered more around Margaret Adeline's age, but we don't know whether they knew each other.)  The Bay Area families got together for the major holidays, and Jessie and Olive's families would socialize together.  Jessie and Fred were considerably better off than Olive and Fred, and the two men had very different political opinions and would argue a lot.

Some very incomplete documentation:

1880 - census has Clarence & Addie Turner and their kids living in Jackson
1888 - Clarence registered to vote in San Francisco, at 415 Laguna, working as a bookkeeper
1890 - voter reg 1611 Sutter, floor "M", SF, working as an accountant
1894 - voter reg Dwight near Ellsworth (clearly the 2239 house), bookkeeper
1896 - voter reg 2239 Dwight Way, Berkeley, bookkeeper
1898 - same

1886 Jesse W.D. Turner, age 21, living in San Diego, working as an insurance agent
1888 Jesse married Jessie Skinner in Sioux City, Iowa