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Joanna McLaws (Mrs. Joseph Hartley Turley (1877-1964)
The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 207-209 Joanna was the second child and first daughter of John McLaws and Sophia DeLaMare, born at St. Joseph, Arizona on Nov. 22, 1877. She was named for her grandmother, Joanna Ross McLaws, who was born in Scotland and migrated to Utah in 1849. Josie, as she has always been known, being the oldest girl of a family of thirteen, helped her mother considerably in raising the family. She learned many skills and became an expert dressmaker. She was one of the first organists in St. Joseph, learning to chord to accompany her father who played the violin. She studied music and taught young people to play the piano. At a very early age she was appointed a Sunday School teacher and taught some classes almost as old as she was. She taught up to 1940 and is remembered as "my Sunday School teacher" by a great many people. During the years 1906 to 1913 she and her sisters, Alice and Estella, ran a dressmaking business in Flagstaff, Arizona. Joanna married Joseph Hartley Turley on May 5, 1915. He was a widower who lived in Woodruff and had four children ranging in age from 16 to 6. They lived in Woodruff for the first year then moved to St. Joseph where they made their home and raised two families. Her husband Joseph Hartley Turley died in 1941 and Josie moved to Mesa with her daughter Nina where she lived for some time. While living there she served as a Stake Missionary for two years and did some genealogy research work for the McLaws, joining the Scots Society of Genealogy. Her eyes failed from too much sewing and she had to stop this work. In 1951 after Nina married she moved back to her home in Joseph City where she lived with her daughter Mary Pickett. She was bedfast with a heart condition after February.
Children of Joseph Hartley and Abbie Nina Cluff Turley: Goldie Cluff Turley, b. June 1, 1899; m. Dec. 9, 1917, John Albert Webb Harvey Cluff Turley, b. Dec. 16, 1901; m. July 13, 1927, Dora Ellen Sainsbury; d. July 27, 1973 Sarah Cluff Turley, b. Jan. 4, 1905; d. Dec. 7, 1923 Joesph Hartley Turley, Jr., b. June 12, 1908; d. Dec. 30, 1971 Reah C. Turley, b. March 11, 1911; d, March 18, 1912
Children of Joseph Hartley and Joanna McLaws Turley: Walter McLaws Turley, b. Feb. 21, 1916; killed on a Hunting trip with Scouts in 1929 Nina McLaws Turley Adair, b. Feb. 21, 1916 Mary McLaws Turley Pickett, b. Feb. 20, 1918 Georgia McLaws Turley Williams, b. April 14, 1922
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