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Farming For A Better Future, page 309
(Top) Excerpt from the 1940 Census Showing the Household of Robert Heard (Middle) Excerpt from the 1940 Census Showing the Household of James David (Above) Excerpt from the 1940 Census Showing the Listing for Milton Redus 461
Turner Chapel School*
Turner Chapel School was named for and organized by brothers Gilbert and Bingham Turner. The brothers were most likely born as slaves in South Carolina and became land owners in North Alabama by the late 1800s. Some historical sources state that the brothers settled in the Reid area and established the school in 1868, but this date is most likely an error and was intended to read 1886. Census records reveal that Gilbert and Bingham lived in Macon, Georgia, in 1870 and first appeared as residents of Limestone
(Right) 1936 Topographic Map Showing Turner Chapel
County in 1880. Land patents purchased from the federal government in 1884 and 1885 were in the brothers' names and located in the section just north of the school's location.
Located off Browns Ferry Road, a few miles southwest of Athens, Turner's Chapel School was built close to the brothers' land in an area where many members of the Turner and Moseley families lived. The brothers donated the land for the first log schoolhouse. Two other buildings followed the original.
Teachers who served at Turner's Chapel have included Ms. Dora Higgins, Ms. Carrie Brown, Mrs. Lydia Taylor Grigsby, Mr. McKinley Turner, Mrs. Louise Turner Furr, Mrs. Nora Moseley Fletcher, Mrs. Margaret Malone Smith, and Mrs. Margaret Moore.
(Left) Students and Teacher of the Turner Chapel School
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