When Annie Turner was born on 9 January 1880, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Pinckney Turner, was 30 and her mother, Mary Alice Hall, was 25. She married Evander Thornhill in 1898. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Johnston Township, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States in 1940 and Street, County Longford, Ireland in 1969. She died on 21 November 1969, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 89.