Hayne

HAYNE TURNER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/21/2010 at 21:38:11

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Hayne Family
By Alma Hill Hennings

Frank E Hayne and Emma Mary Turner were married at Algona, Iowa, September 3, 1882. She was the daughter of Edward Henry Turner and Elizabeth Ann Turner, and was born June 23, 1861, at State Center, Iowa. She died in California, October 6, 1936. Frank was born July 1, 18??, at Akron, Ohio, and died May 16, 1913.

Frank and Emma homesteaded in Woodbury County on the NE ¼ Section 27 Twp. 88 N. Range 45. Their homestead application was signed October 26, 1892, by President Benjamin Harrison.

Their children were: Beattie Lowell, 1885-1940; Edith Mae, 1886-1980, Jessie Opal, 1887-1968; Elizabeth Fae, 1889-1966; and Eva Ethel, 1899-1918.

Mr and Mrs Hayne moved to Fresno, California, from Moville. Their daughter Edith Mae married in 1874, to Ralph Mark, born in Ashland, Oregon. Nelia is the only surviving daughter, who carried on her grandmother’s project.

When Mr and Mrs Mark went to California they built a nursing home, on American Avenue in Modesto, California. It was one of the first, if not the first such homes in the country. Besides administering to the sick and aged, Mrs Mark befriended homeless, foreign, and underprivileged girls. One, Mary, a Mexican girl, stayed until Mrs Mark died because she was so appreciative of the consideration and help she had received.

Mrs Mark, a Seventh Day Adventist, used the profits from her nursing home to establish boarding homes for underprivileged girls in the U S and foreign countries. She also was instrumental in establishing churches where there were none. Mrs Mark was an accomplished musician and enjoyed writing poetry.