Mary Ashley Van Alstyne

1848 - 1913  (65 years)

• Name	Mary Ashley Van Alstyne
  Birth	30 Jun 1848	Houston, Harris, TX
  Gender	Female
  Census	4 Jul 1870	Galveston, Galveston, TX ; Mary A, age 23, born TX, keeps house
  Census	14 Jun 1880	Houston, Harris, TX ; age 32, born TX, does housekeeping, parents born NY/VA, daughter Daisy, 11, living in house
  Census	2 Jun 1900	Houston, Harris, TX ; age 48, born 30 Jun 1852 in TX, marr 28 yrs, 2/2 children living, parents born Hudson River/Washington
  Census	16 Apr 1910	Richmond, Henrico, VA ; age 47, born TX, widowed, 1/1 children living, parents born TX/TX
  Death	21 Dec 1913	Richmond, Richmond, VA
  Burial		Turner Family Cemetery, New Kent Co, VA
  Person ID	I8896	Family Tree
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	William Ashley Van Alstyne
  Mother	Maria Hill Wright
  Family ID	F4212	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jonathan Emerson Cowen,   b. 13 Mar 1838, Bristol Co, MA d. 4 Aug 1901, Fairhaven, Bristol, MA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	20 Jan 1868	Harris Co, TX
  Divorce	4 Jul 1873
  Notes	from "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973," (familysearch.org) On 20 Jan 1868 in Harris Co, TX, Mary Van Alstyne married J.E. Cowan
  Children	1. Marie Louise “Daisy” Cowen,   b. 1869, Houston, Harris, TX
  Family ID	F4213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Capt Edmund Pendleton Turner,   b. 20 Dec 1835, New Kent Co, VA d. 31 Jul 1907, Sewanee, Franklin, TN (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	19 Dec 1874	Harris Co, TX
  Notes	from "Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965" (Ancestry.com) On 19 Dec 1874 in Harris Co, TX, E.P. Turner married Mary A Cowen
  Children	1. Edmund Pendleton Turner,   b. 9 Nov 1886, Houston, Harris, TX d. 5 Apr 1957, Washington, DC (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F2985	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2016

  
  

• Headstones

  Turner Family Headstone TURNER SON / EDMUND PENDLETON TURNER / 1835 - 1905 HIS WIFE / MARY VAN ALSTYNE / 1847 - 1912 DAUGHTER / LOUISA BEVERLY KEMP TURNER / 1843 - 1925 WIFE OF / PATRICK HENRY HUFFMAN

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Richmond Times Dispatch", 3 Oct 1908 Mrs. Pendleton Turner has occupied her apartment at the Raleigh. Her son, Mr. Pendleton Turner, is at the University of Virginia. from "The Houston Chronicle", 6 Aug 1911 Mrs. M.V. Turner, formerly of Houston, but now of Richmond, gave an elaborate supper party at Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs, in compliment to several guests at the Springs, Recently. Among those seated at the table was her son, Mr. E. Pendleton Turner of Washington. One can imagine the beauty of the decorations when one hears that 500 roses and 400 asters were used upon the round table which seated 28 guests. At the places of the women were wicker baskets filled with flowers, which they carried away as souvenirs of the delighted affair. It was a champagne supper and music was furnished by a negro quartette, stationed in the cafe. Greenbriar White seems to be even more than usually gay this season and among the distinguished and prominent visitors there is Major Thomas L Brown of Charleston, W.Va. Major Brown was a warm personal friend of General Robert E. Lee, and it was he that sold his own horse, Traveler, the general, which General Lee rode all through the war. from "The Richmond Times Dispatch", 22 Dec 1913 TURNER - Died, at Gresham Court, Sunday, December 21, at 8 A.M., MRS. M.V. TURNER, widow of Captain Edmund Pendleton Turner, of Houston, Tex. Funeral services and interment private.