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A 100-year-old dress brings Turner cousins together By Linda Waggener Annita Dial, Trilby Vance and I recently shared a conversation around a hundred-year-old dress that brought us together at the Adair Genealogy and History Center. Annita, Adair Genealogist, loved the historic dress donated to the Center by Trilby and had a chance to get more details about it on a trip to Bowling Green to meet with Kay Brock who is a new member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). While there, she discovered a picture of someone wearing that same dress and learned that Trilby, the one who donated the dress in Columbia, was wearing it in the picture, along with four others from Adair County - all related from the Turner family line. We spent a good deal of time exploring our shared Turner family History. All our grandparents and great grandparents came from the same couple who settled in southern Adair County. Genealogist Mike Watson wrote that Joseph Turner was a pioneer who brought his family to settle there in the late 1790s or early 1800s. The original log home, added onto many times over the years at the confluence of Burns Creek with Crocus Creek, burned in the 1980s. The Turner cemetery was located on the south side of the house. It is still maintained today. One thing we remember, but cannot locate, is the huge roll of oil cloth/plastic that Lena Rooks kept with the name of all the original Turner brothers and sisters who were born and raised in the community of Inroad, about a mile north of the Cumberland County line, on highway 704. If any readers can help locate that Turner roll please click 'contact' below and send details. The Adair County Genealogy and History Research Center opened April 19, 2021 next door to the Adair County Public Library, at 307 Greensburg Street. It is open weekdays from 9amCT to 5pmCT, and on Saturdays from 8amCT to NoonCT. This story was posted on 2025-08-16 21:25:18
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