Sallie Alston Turner (22 March 1880-18 September 1970) was the oldest daughter (the second oldest child) of Mary (Marie) Alma Leach and Julian Augustine Turner. A native of Guilford County, she attended Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia and the "Greensboro College for Women." After college, she was a secretary for the law firm of Wilson and Ferguson in Greensboro. She then was head secretary to Senator Lee S. Overman and worked for a short time with the Federal Trade Commission. During her years in Washington, D.C. (off and on again from 1908 to 1969), she was a frequent world traveller.

This series contains correspondence, some miscellaneous papers, and a recipe book dated 1908.

Arrangement: by subject and date.

Marie Alma Turner (2 October 1882- ) attended George Washington University where she received her A.B. After graduation, she studied at the Universite de Paris (Sorbonne) and also took other classes in Paris through L'Alliance Francaise.

Marie then taught at various schools in the Southeast before accepting a position teaching English at the American school in Tokyo, Japan (circa 1927). In 1928, she returned to France and studied at Grenoble, and soon after attended Columbia University in New York City, where she received her Master's Degree in 1930. In 1934, she spent a summer studying at the Ecole Francaise De Middlebury College, and during 1940-1941 she travelled in Mexico. From 1937 to 1943, Ms. Turner taught in various high schools in Miami and Jacksonville, Florida, before returning to Mexico where she spent part of 1944 as a student at the University of Mexico. Then from 1945 on, she taught French and Spanish at numerous schools throughout the Southeast, including Appalachian State Teacher's College in Boone, N.C. (circa 1945), Shenandoah College in Dayton, Va. (circa 1946), Greenbrier College in Lewisburg, W.Va. (circa 1947), Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, N.C., and Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Va. (circa 1948), as well as Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., Sullins College, Bristol, Va., and Louisburg College, Louisburg, N.C.

This series contains Marie Alma Turner's correspondence, an extensive collection of materials related to her taking and teaching language courses, and numerous datebooks she kept during her lifetime.

Pattie Mangum Turner (13 July 1892- ) studied and travelled abroad extensively. She spent 1927-1928 at the Universite de Paris studying French language and culture and gaining a certificate from L'Alliance Francaise. In 1928-1929, she studied at the Centro De Estudios Hitoricos in Madrid, Spain. Prior to these studies abroad, Ms. Turner earned a Master's Degree in English from Columbia University in 1926, and returned there to work on a Ph.D. during the early 1930s. She spent several years in New York City, but never completed the degree.

Around 1950, Turner accepted a position as head of the French department at the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, Ga. During her stay there, she also took several courses in librarianship. As a result of these studies, she became head of the library at Wingate College, Wingate, N.C., in 1955.

This series consists of miscellaneous correspondence, notes and papers from courses at Columbia University and Georgia State College for Women, a datebook, 1920-1954, and several travel diaries.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence of the other two sisters, Rosalie Preston Turner and Anne Leach Turner.

Rosalie Preston Turner (2 October 1888- ) lived in Raleigh, N.C., for most of her adult life. For a time, she worked as a private secretary to E. B. Jeffress, chairman of the North Carolina State Highway Commission. She married John Alexander Livingstone (6 September 1885-26 May 1937) on 30 April 1935; he died unexpectedly two years later. (See Collection #4100.)

Anne Leach Turner (30 June 1899- ) was employed at D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State University as an order librarian, and spent the better part of her life in Raleigh, N.C.

Chiefly unidentifiable or undated correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Turner family. Also included are various Turner family genealogical materials.

Arrangement: by individual or location.