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                   Note: In a letter to Dot (Dorothy): From the Turner Bible: Maria Agnes Fleming Turner (our grandmother); Sallie Mulhearn Fleming (our great grandmother); Mary Collins Mulhearn (our great great grandmother). 

   Patrick and Michael Collins were uncles (or great uncles?). Michael became a priest and moved to New York. Sallie Mulhearn married Frank Fleming, a farmer from Roscommon, Ireland. Three girls and two boys were born. The two boys died as babies-also their sister Kate. Frank Fleming came to America and died in New Orleans of Yollow Fever.

   Maria Agnes Fleming (our grandmother) was born in Dunsmore, County Galway, Ireland, in 1847. She sailed for San Francisco in 1869 with friends-Nellie Bruce and her five sisters. Nellie married a Doctor Bruce and our grandmother, Maria Agnes Fleming, met and married Captain John B. Turner shortly after her arrival. 

   Our grandfather, Captain John B. Turner was born in Saline County, Missouri on May 1, 1831. His father, Thomas Turner, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia. He died May 10, 1866 at the age of 56 in Antioch, Califronia. Thomas Turner, our great grandfather, was a pioneer in the great West and built the first fort in Missouri during the Black Hawk War. They crossed the plains in covered wagons in 1849 and engaged in the cattle business. In the 1850's Captain John Turner and his two brothers owned a steamboat which was called "The Antioch." It sailed on the San Joaquin and the Sacramento Rivers. There were no railroads in those days and they did a big business hauling freight and cattle and passengers.

   Our grandfather's mother, Catherine Turner, was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She died May 2, 1875 at 51 years 11 months and is buried in the family polot in Antioch. She was a very devout little Methodist and the old family bible shows the print of her pencil as she marked certain passages. Our grandmother Maria Fleming Turner, used to say she was so religious that wouldn't cook on Sunday.

   (Signed) Your lilttle Aunt Ruth

   The above is a letter to me from Aunt Ruth Bates and she ended it with "God bless them all and may they be in heaven. God bless you girls and your dear husbands and little families."

   Maria died peacefully in her daughter's Ruth's arms.

Dottie did very well in school and graduated from Stanford with a B.S. degree. She had many suitors and finally chose Marshall Leahy a San Francisco native and an attorney there. Marshall became the attorney for the San Francisco '49ers football team and also the California Rice Growers. Dottie gave birth to seven (7) children and two sets of twins, one set of twins passed away. With five daughters and an extremeley active social life, plus traveling the world over, Dottie and Marshall loved life. After Marshall's death Dottie moved to a retirement home in San Rafael, CA, However this did not slow Dottie down. She stayed in very close contact with her friends in San Francisco and at the Olympic Club in that city. Also, she spent many summer weeks at her home at Silverado Country Club. Life has always been a very social whirl for Dottie and she is known as an extremely generous host. She was very attached to her Leahy relations and her father's relations as well as the Doherty side. Dottie has always benn in love with life and life has always been in love with Dottie. As I am typing this, Dottie is celebrating her 84th birthday. Dottie also had a "hole in one" on the golf links in Burlingame.