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Preferred Citation
Polly Turner papers, WLU Coll. 0699, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, VA.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given on October 11, 2018, by Polly's daughter, Paula Markham, 1926 E. Bayview Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23503.
Polly Turner (1920-2019) was born in Buchanan, Virginia and lived more than fifty years in Lexington, Virginia. She and her
husband Edward Felix Turner, Jr., a professor at Washington and Lee University had three daughters. She was a civil rights
and women's rights advocate and activist, a longtime voter registration and community volunteer, chair of Rockbridge County's
(Va) Democratic party and a long time member of the Rockbridge (Va) Bird Club and Virginia Society of Ornithology.
