Mary C. Sears

1825-1894 · Virginia

Born 1825, Hardy County, Virginia

Died 1894

Children include Gabriel

Mary C. Sears, called Polly, was born in Hardy County, Virginia, on 25 August 1825. She married Benjamin Turner. Their children were William Charles (1849), Elizabeth E. (1850), Emily (1852), Mary Catherine (1855), Martin (1855) and Gabriel (1858).

She outlived three of her children. Martin died in 1881, and Emily and Mary Catherine both died in 1886. When her youngest son Gabriel married Annie Keplinger in December 1882, the Grant County register named his parents as Benjamin and Mary C. Turner. Fifty years after her death Gabriel's own death certificate gave his mother's maiden name as Polly Ann Sears.

She died in Grant County on 9 May 1894 and is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville. Her stone reads "Mary C., wife of Benj'n Turner". A memorial gives the cause as stomach trouble. Two different sets of parents are given for her in compiled sources: John T. Sears and Ruth Orahood, or Alexander Sears and Mary Howe.

Children

Gabriel Turner 1858-1943

Sources

West Virginia State Department of Health, certificate of death, Grant County, 1943, district 120, serial 55; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 1983740, image 96

Grant County, West Virginia, Register of Marriages, page 29, 1882; West Virginia Archives and History, Vital Research Records, film 810250, image 49

Find a Grave, memorial 193296263, Mary C. "Polly" Sears Turner, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Maysville, photograph added by Larry Veach, 2018

Grant County Register of Marriages, 1882, page 29, line 30 (film 810250, image 49); West Virginia death certificate of Gabriel Turner, 1943 (film 1983740, image 96); Find a Grave memorial 193296263, gravestone photograph added by Larry Veach

If Mary C. Sears is in your family, start your own tree.

Cite: Heirology, "Mary C. Sears (1825-1894)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mary-c-sears-1825-1894-d0c8e9.