When Nora Missouri Turner was born on 5 April 1873, in Cedar City, Callaway, Missouri, United States, her father, Dr. Stephen Dodson Turner, was 42 and her mother, Missouri Patience Parsons, was 32. She married Alfred McWorkman Wade on 23 December 1891, in California, Moniteau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Alliance Election Precinct, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 18 August 1901, in Cole, Missouri, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Elston Cemetery, Elston, Cole, Missouri, United States.
English: occupational name from Middle English t(o)urnour, turner ‘turner’ (Old French to(u)rn(e)our), mainly denoting someone who fashioned small objects of wood, metal, or bone on a lathe, but also a variety of other occupations, including turnspit and translator or interpreter. This surname may have become confused with Toner . In North America, it is also very common among African Americans.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname from Middle English turn-hare, a compound of Middle English tournen ‘to turn, direct, steer’ + hare ‘hare’, a name for someone in charge of the greyhounds in hare coursing or an exaggerated compliment for someone who could run fast. See also Turnbull .
English: perhaps also from Middle English t(o)urn(e)our ‘jouster, one who takes part in a tournament’ (Old French tornoieor, tournoieur).
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