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I can actually give you the address as it is on the 1900, 1910 & 1920 censuses. It's 705 E. Clinton St. My paternal grandfather is the young boy sitting on the front porch step between the two girls. My great grandparents are the couple standing behind him. I know who my great grandfather's siblings were. I just can't put the faces in the picture to the right names.

My great grandfather's oldest brother (20 years older) was the one living in the house. His name was Alexander Houston Turner. He and his wife Helen lived there on the 1900 & 1910 censuses. By 1920, he has died and Helen is still living in the house, but as a "boarder". The head of the household is shown as G. Newman Robinson. So, it's possible that Houston (as he was called) and Helen Turner may have rented the house all those years and not actually owned it, but I don't really know. Helen had one son by a 1st marriage that died between 1900 & 1910. She and Houston had no children of their own that I know of. She is still a "boarder"on the 1930 census, but not in this house, in a house on Lincoln St. She died in 1932.

My Turners were not from AL. They were from TN & GA. My great grandfather came to TX as a young boy with his aunt and uncle and spent the rest of his life there.

(Email from Terrie Russell to Samantha Hathorn, July, 2013.)
Source: Terrie Russell
Date: c1900
Rights: Samantha Hathorn / Terrie Russell