When Rachel Adaline Dixon was born on 27 June 1864, in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois, United States, her father, William Dixon, was 42 and her mother, Mariah White, was 25. She married John Stephen Turner on 28 February 1884, in Sullivan, Moultrie, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Belvidere, Thayer, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Lovington, Moultrie, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 22 August 1908, in Liberal, Seward, Kansas, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Liberal, Seward, Kansas, United States.