T. M. Turner
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Thomas Memory Turner July 17, 1847 Middletown, Virginia |
| Died | September 2, 1917 (aged 70) Norfolk, Virginia |
| Occupation | Music professor |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Grimes Nannie Wyatt Mary Goddard |
| Children | Susan Dorsey Turner Claude Eugene Turner Charles Augustus Turner Marcus Richardson Turner Cora Turner |
Thomas Memory Turner (July 17, 1847 – September 2, 1917) was a music professor. He spent many years working at the Western Lunatic Asylum of Staunton, Virginia.
He was once assistant director of the Stonewall Brigade Band, the United States's oldest continuous community band sponsored by local government and funded, in part, by tax monies. His father A. J. Turner was director.
Thomas Memory Turner was born on July 17, 1847 in Middletown, Virginia to A. J. Turner and Kate Aby, and moved to Staunton with them in the mid 1850s.
Turner served in the Confederacy for the duration of the American Civil War. His father A. J. was a band leader in the Stonewall Brigade Band in the Stonewall Brigade. Thomas Memory was a musician alongside his father in the 5th Virginia Infantry from April 1 to August 22, 1862. He was later in the 14th Virginia Cavalry band, enlisting at Brandy Station on August 1, 1863. He was taken prisoner and paroled on April 30, 1865.
The band was reorganized in 1869 with Turner as assistant leader and his father as leader. He continued to play in the Stonewall Brigade Band for years after the war.
Turner married Kate Grimes of Maryland, daughter of Dr. Gassaway Sellman Grimes, on February 28, 1872 in Warren County, Virginia. They were married by a reverend Mr. Converse. A daughter, Susan Dorsey Turner, was born there in 1874.
Turner lived in Lewisburg, West Virginia from about 1877 until November 1879. A son, Charles Augustus Turner, was born there.
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