Individual Details

Elizabeth Hays and Marrion (sic) Turner were married by J. T. Matlock, JP. He gave his age as 22, Elizabeth as 19.

1900 Census gives her birth as Jan 1865, but her age as 33 [she was 35]. Marriage record says she was 19 in January of 1887, or born 1868. In the 1870 census with her parents she was listed as A. E. E. Hays, age 3, a male child - which was certainly an error.

Grave marker of parents [new marker - placed many years after the fact] lists an "Ann" as well as Elizabeth or "Lizzy". No other name that would fit these initials. In 1880 there is an Elizabeth of this age on the census. Ann would have been Ann Eliza, her older sister, born 1851.

In 1910, Lizzie states she has had 5 children; all are living.
Freda Hays Barnett believes Marion and Elizabeth are buried close to Elias in Sarah Grove Cemetery. They are listed in "History in Headstones" and the graves are there.

In "History in Headstones" Elizabeth E. Turner, wife of Francis M. Turner, born 1878, died 1917. I have a photo of the stone and the stone plainly says 1876. [Either way, this date of birth is surely an error, because she was with her parents in the 1870 census.]

Arkansas Death Certificate #550. Elizabeth Turner died 8 May 1917 of pellagra, accompanied by intoxication psychosis at the State Hospital in Little Rock, Pulaski Co. She was 50 - no birth date known. She was married. Elias Hays, father, b. Tenn. Martha, mother, b. MS. Informed by C. Askebaum of the Hospital. Body removed to Van Buren for burial.

Obituaries, Death Notices & News Items Extracted from the Van Buren Press Argus 1917; Fran Alverson Warren, p.39
11 May 1917
DIED OF PELLAGRA AT LITTLE ROCK
Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, wife of Marion Turner, county jailer, died in Little Rock Monday night and the remains will arrive in Van Buren early Wednesday morning. Arrangements have not been completed for the funeral.
Mrs. Turner was a victim of pellagra and was sent to a Little Rock hospital for treatment, but the ravages of the disease had reached a point where medical treatment was to no avail.
Note: Pellagra is a vitamin dificiency caused by the chronic lack of niacin in the diet. It was epidemic in the Southern U.S. in the early 1920's. Much of the corn grown at that time was not being treated with lime which had made the niacin nutritionally available. The Native Americans had used lime, but the importance of doing so was not understood. Twice as many women as men were affected.

Birth	Jan 1867	Arkansas
Marriage	23 Jan 1887	Crawford County, Arkansas - Francis Marion Turner
Death	6 May 1917	Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Burial		Sarah's Grove Cemetery, Crawford County, Arkansas

Spouse	Francis Marion Turner (1865 - 1928)
Child	Troy Lee Turner (1888 - 1931)
Child	Lula Monet Turner (1894 - )
Child	John Jefferson Turner (1896 - 1965)
Child	Willa Mae Turner (1898 - 1986)
Child	Theodore F. Turner (1906 - )

Father	ELIAS B. HAYS (1829 - 1879)
Mother	MARTHA FRANCES CRUTCHER (1833 - 1896)
Sibling	Mary Ellen Hays (1849 - 1895)
Sibling	Ann Eliza Hays (1851 - 1939)
Sibling	Delitha Hays (1854 - )
Sibling	JOHN JEFFERSON HAYS (1856 - 1950)
Sibling	William Richard Hays (1859 - 1937)
Sibling	Benjamin McClure Hays (1860 - 1936)
Sibling	Elias E. Hays (1863 - )
Sibling	Silas Newton Hays (1872 - 1942)
Sibling	George Wallace Hays (1875 - 1910)