Turner Family, Settlers, Franklin Parish , La.

Submitted by: DeWanna Robinson Lindo

April 2001

Source: Franklin Parish Library Clipping 1-28-1945





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Dr. Clarence B. Turner of Mississippi came to the Fort Necessity 

community immediately following the Civil War (1866). He

married into the pioneer Leavens (Levens) family who are said

to have come from famed Bayou Teche in south Louisiana around 

the turn of the 19th. Century. The family is also connected with the

Boyle, Desha and Ross families.



The Leavens were large slave holdersa, owning among others, the Whites 

and Pleasants, highly respected Negroes.



Mr. Jim King recalls that ex-slave Harry White gave a dinner-on-the-ground

in 1873 for members of the family who once owned him and for white

friends throughout the community.



One of the oldest graveyards in Boef Prairie is located on the Turner

home place, near Ft. Necessity. Interred there are Doyles and Nugents

two pioneer families.





Children of Clarence and his wife Florence (desha) Turner include: 

Mrs. N.A. Dailey and Mrs. (Dr.) A.J. Reynolds, both of Winnsboro. 

Blanchard Turner lives in Baton Rouge where he was superintendent 

of East Baton Rouge parish school for several years.



Dr. Clarence Turner was a Justice of the Peace in 1886, 

by appointment of the Governor, a very important position in those days.



Children of Richard Turner, also a son of Dr. Turner, include Ross and 

Richard of Ft. Nesessity. Their venerable mother, Rosalie (Ross) Turner, 

lives with their sister, Mrs. Grace Brooks, a school teacher in the community.