William T. "Toll" Turner was one of three in this family given this name. His uncle, William T. Turner (
1850 Monroe County Census--#427, age 26, born in VA) was the first, and his grandson (son of John D.) who died in infancy was the third. Toll's middle name has variously been recorded in family pedigrees as either "Tolbert" or "Toliver." As far as I know, there aren't any existing family records that disclose Toll's full middle name, and the same can be said for public records--
except for one. The
1850 Monroe County Census lists
Toliver Turner in the household of his widowed grandmother, Jane England (#430), and conspicuously absent from his parents' household. This seems to be a clue that the use of his lifelong name of "Toll" probably began early, even before his marriage, perhaps to distinguish him from his youthful uncle of the same name. The Virginia line of this family has not yet been successfully traced beyond
Nicholas Turner of Buckingham County, but the fact of an early intermarriage between Thomas Turner and the Taliaferro/Toliver family in Virginia may eventually support the evidence for Toliver, also. This Turner family line is represented (#80748) in the
Turner DNA Project. -- Charles R. Arterburn