Elizabeth Nesselrodt

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

Betty E Nazelrod. Was born daughter of Frederick Nesselrodt 111 and Mary Ann Smith,Nesselrodt.She married in Hardy County,West Va.Thomas Marion Turner Jr.1872. in home of Jacob Simon. Thomas was son of Thomas Turner Sr. And Maude Nesselrodt. they were 1st cousins. he was born in Rockingham Co,Va. 1853.Betty died Feb 7,1921, in Hardy Co.West Va.at her home in Peru, now a part of Moorefield,WVA. bio. obituary by her son George W Turner. In Remembrance;Mother was daughter of Fred and Mary Nazelrod. and was born in Rockingham County,VA. Her father moved to West Va. in the year of 1859. to Hardy County, and in the year 1872.she married Thomas M Turner.and became the mother of 9 children. five boys and four girls. (note i was always told there were 5 of each?)this compiler. (The Lord called home two boys and 1 girl a year before.Mother united with the Brethern Church in 1888 and she lived a Christian life a number of years.She was taken sick on Feb 2..All was done by kind hands ,children and friends and relatives.but the Lord called her home on the 7 day of Feb 1921. She leaves to mourn a husband,three brothers and two sisters.three sons. and three daughters.thirteen grandchildren.besides a host of other relatives and friends.Mother was born on Feb 15,1850, and died on Feb 7,1921 age 70 yrs 11 mons and 23days.Her last words was children meet me in Heaven.for I am going to dwell with them that have gone before. I'm going to live with angles so fair I'll look for you children and wait for you there where tears do not flow and there death cannot come.together we will in that beautiful home dwell. we think of her in silence no eye may see us weep but deep in our heart concealed the memory we will keep;we miss her kind and tender voice her loved and tender care our home is dark now mother we miss you everywhere.We miss you when the moring dawn.we miss you when the night return we miss you here we miss you there dear mother we miss you everywhere.God needed one more angel amid His Shinning Band.and so he bent with loving smiling and clasped our mothers darling hand. written by her baby G.W.Turner.Luke.Md,Betty Elizabeth Nazelrod was my grandmother this compiler,.I am the youngest of 17 children. born to her next youngest son. Noah Adam Turner. Betty (grandmom) was buried at the Judy cemetery,private owned.by the Judy's. need permission to visit. here alsio rests. her husband beside her. next to her on the right is her da-in-law Ada R Ritchie Turner. Noah's my father 1st wife. next to Ada is her son and my father's James Wm Turner, a son of her son Charles Turner who died as infant. also, behind Betty is ason to her Simon Dasher Turner, noted to died abt 8 yrs old in a fire. to Thomas's left from his side are two dau's Rosie and next to her Sallie Turner.neither never maried. across side ways from them.is an unmark grave of Roger Hayes, a grt grandson to to Betty, from her granddau Edith Turner.who's father is Noah. still straight across from Thomas and Betty are 5 infant graves of their grandchildren.also children of Noah.there were a total of 32 grandchildren born from this union to Betty Elizabeth Nazelrod Turner. from her surviving children. Mary j.Rosie. Noah.George. and Charles.and four deceased children born to her who died young or as infants. John Cassie Martha,Edward Lee..CORRECTION Charles Tuner did not died as infant. found in later resource. please forgive all mistakes

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Family Time Line

Thomas Marion Turner Jr
1852–1935
Elizabeth Nesselrodt
1850–1921
Marriage: 25 July 1872
John Edward Lee Turner
1872–1895
Melvin Edward Lee Turner
1872–1895
James Turner
1880–1881
Mary Jane Turner
1874–1958
Martha Cassie A. Turner
1876–1876
Rosa Rebecca Turner
1878–1945
Rebecca Florence Tunner
1879–1879
Charles W Turner
1880–1942
Simon Dasher Turner
1882–1901
Sarah E. Turner
1885–1969
Noah Adam Turner
1890–1971
George E Washington Turner
1894–1951

Sources (28)

  • Elizabeth Nazelerod in household of Frederick Nazelerod, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Elzabeth Turner, "West Virginia, Births, 1853-1930"
  • Elizabeth Nazelrode, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"

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1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

German: topographic name denoting a clearing where nettles grew, from Middle High German nezzel ‘nettle’ + riuten, roten ‘to clear land (for cultivation or settlement)’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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