{"id":92305,"date":"2023-06-20T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=92305"},"modified":"2023-07-28T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:50:12","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-34.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction:<\/em><\/strong><em> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the Turner and Case family lines. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestoryarchives.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HistoryGenNEFamilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I continue with my series \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d focusing on descendants of <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers Richard Warren, Elizabeth Walker, John Howland, and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turner Family Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First up, the lineage of the Turner twins, with ancestry of Revolutionary and Colonial heroes as well as <em>Mayflower<\/em> passenger Richard Warren.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92309\" style=\"width: 893px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A11A73E5827618330%40GB3NEWS-11C5F947A1304AC8%402421293-11C58CAECAF55410%4012-12E983B1B62FB058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/oregonian-newspaper-0305-1917-turner-twins.jpg\" alt=\"An article about the Turner twins, Oregonian newspaper 5 March 1917\" width=\"893\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/oregonian-newspaper-0305-1917-turner-twins.jpg 893w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/oregonian-newspaper-0305-1917-turner-twins-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/oregonian-newspaper-0305-1917-turner-twins-768x700.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 5 March 1917, page 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The two babes in this photo feature in the <em>Oregonian<\/em> are Richard Warren Turner and Caroline Estabrook Turner, born in Portland, Oregon, on 14 December 1916, to Captain Chester Cleveland Turner and Caroline Estabrook Gould.<\/p>\n<p>The family shared some of the lineage with correspondent Edith Knight Holmes. They told her baby Richard Warren had many ancestors by the same good name including Richard Warren, who won distinction at the battle of Bunker Hill. And baby Caroline is the sixth Caroline Estabrook to sport the namesake into the clan.<\/p>\n<p>The catch here is these babes descend from two different Warren lines and only one connects them to <em>Mayflower<\/em> passenger Richard Warren. The other Warren line were settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>I found a reference to this double Warren line cited in \u201cAsaph Warren Family Bible,\u201d published in the <em>Mayflower Descendant<\/em>, Volume 34.<\/p>\n<p>Turner twins\u2019 lineage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Warren and Richard Church<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Church and Joanna Sprague<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Church and Joshua Warren, son of Daniel and Mary (Barron) Warren of Watertown<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Warren and Martha Coolidge<\/li>\n<li>Deverson Warren and Ann Gault<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Warren and Rhoda Wheeler<\/li>\n<li>George Wheeler Warren and Margaret Victoria Estabrook, daughter of Athol, Massachusetts, Unitarian minister Dr. Joseph Hubbard Estabrook and Caroline Jacobs<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Estabrook Warren and Henry L Gould, son of Josiah Gould and Anne Strong<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Estabrook Gould and Chester Cleveland Turner, son of Francis Brockway Turner and Ella Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Case Family Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next up, Mayflower Society members including Rhode Island Governor Norman Stanley Case and his sister Martha Warren Case Arnold. Also, his son Norman Stanley Case Jr., who served as governor of the Vermont Society of Mayflower Descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Case lineage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Howland and Jonathan Bosworth<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Bosworth and Sarah Rounds<\/li>\n<li>Ichabod Bosworth and Mary Bowen<\/li>\n<li>Ichabod Bosworth and Hannah Horton<\/li>\n<li>David Bosworth and Elizabeth Luther<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Bosworth and George Kelton<\/li>\n<li>Mercy Ann Kelton and Isaac Case<\/li>\n<li>John Warren Case and Louise Maria White, daughter of Amos Lewis White and Nancy Jane Harris<\/li>\n<li>Governor Norman Stanley Case married Emma Louise Arnold, daughter of Fred Arnold and Martha Philips White<\/li>\n<li>Sibling: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/thirdrecordbooko00soci\/page\/n234\/mode\/thumb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha Warren Case<\/a> married Howie Corbin Arnold, son of Warren Jabez Arnold and Ella Frances Corbin. She was the state historian of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in Rhode Island. Both Martha and her sister-in-law Emma were also members of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D. A. R.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourherald.com\/articles\/norman-s-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norman Stanley Case Jr.<\/a> married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/211381528\/dorothy-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorothy Stoneman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other notables in the family line include <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Gorton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Groton<\/a> and Gov. William Greene of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Norman S. Case was the chosen speaker in 1930 when the Mayflower Society of Rhode Island held a banquet in the Biltmore Hotel foyer to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-ii.html\">Forefathers\u2019 Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92313\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A147288B4AE4904D8%40GB3NEWS-174E1D15E1CC36A2%402426320-174D71CC4E853F47%4014-174D71CC4E853F47\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-bulletin-newspaper-1209-1930-forefathers-day.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Forefathers' Day, Evening Bulletin newspaper 9 December 1930\" width=\"532\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-bulletin-newspaper-1209-1930-forefathers-day.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-bulletin-newspaper-1209-1930-forefathers-day-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Bulletin (Providence, Rhode Island), 9 December 1930, page 15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And it was not just their Pilgrim ancestry the Case family worked diligently to preserve.<\/p>\n<p>In 1932 a photo of Mrs. Norman S. Case Jr. was featured in the <em>Evening Star<\/em> for her role as an honorary committee member for the Bicentennial ball, to celebrate the birth of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/jamestown-descendants-whos-who-part-5.html\">President George Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92315\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%40GB3NEWS-16E5DB54D5BF43F5%402426738-16E5DCC8FACAE242%4037-16E5DCC8FACAE242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-0131-1932-dorothy-case.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Dorothy Case, Evening Star newspaper 31 January 1932\" width=\"424\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-0131-1932-dorothy-case.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-0131-1932-dorothy-case-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 31 January 1932, page 38<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found a photo of Mr. Case, who took part in other activities celebrating our founding father Gen. Washington \u2013 in this case, the anniversary of his funeral. This image is from 18 December 1932, published in the \u201cActivities of the Commission and Complete-final Report of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission.\u201d (Library of Congress)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/photo-0620-2023-washington-memorial-event.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/photo-0620-2023-washington-memorial-event.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a memorial event for George Washington\" width=\"682\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/photo-0620-2023-washington-memorial-event.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/photo-0620-2023-washington-memorial-event-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo caption reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Memorial exercises, December 18, 1932, on the 133<sup>rd<\/sup> anniversary of the funeral of George Washington. After the ceremony in historic Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, a distinguished committee went to Mount Vernon to lay flowers upon the tomb of George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Left to right, entering Christ Church, are: Governor John Garland Pollard, of Virginia; Governor Norman S. Case, of Rhode Island; Mrs. Sol Bloom; Honorable Sol Bloom, Director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission; Miss Vera Bloom; Colonel Harrison Dodge, Superintendent of Mount Vernon; General G. Gardner Waller, Adjutant General of Virginia; Mrs. Royal S. Copeland and Senator Royal S. Copeland, of New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is an image in 1935 of Gov. Norman S. Case and Mrs. Daniel Heffernan, president of the Rhode Island Historical Society, placing a wreath on the statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nKyH1D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Williams<\/a> in the National Statuary Hall of the Capitol, honoring the pioneer of religious liberty who was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92319\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%40GB3NEWS-148A31CAF8AC9A90%402428095-148997D8C811636B%403-148997D8C811636B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-1019-1935-roger-williams-honored.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Norman Case, Evening Star newspaper 19 October 1935\" width=\"291\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-1019-1935-roger-williams-honored.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/evening-star-newspaper-1019-1935-roger-williams-honored-128x300.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 19 October 1935, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This was in conjunction with a tercentenary tribute commemorating Williams and his important role in recognizing religious freedom and its relationship to the progress of civilization. His wife Emma was there as well to represent the D. A. R.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Explore over 330 years of newspapers and historical records in GenealogyBank. Discover your family story! <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/sign-up\">Start a 7-Day Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note on the header image:<\/em><\/strong> portrait of Rhode Island Governor Norman Stanley Case (1888-1967). 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