Maria Fletcher Turner was a daughter of Lucian and Mary Elisabeth Woodfork Fletcher. Maria married Sheadrick Bond Turner (born about July 12, 1867 in Louisiana), a lawyer who had represented Chicago's "Black Belt" in the Illinois State Senate around 1885. When Sheadrick died in 1927, he left his widow an estate of approximately $80,000 in cash and a house on Chicago's South State Street, so that when Maria passed away in 1932, her estate was worth about $100,000.00. At the time of her death, Maria was not survived by any children and did not appear to have left a Last Will and Testament.

This turn of events prompted Maria's white half-sisters and nieces (daughters of one deceased half-sister) to file a claim against her estate as her closest next of kin. In the course of the court proceedings that followed, the half-sisters and nieces submitted copious evidence supporting their claim that they and Maria shared the same father. Before the court could rule in favor of the half-sisters and nieces, however, Maria's Last Will and Testament was found, submitted to the court, and ultimately accepted. In the Last Will and Testament presented to the court, Maria left everything to the attorney who had discovered the will, George W. Blackwell. Mr. Blackwell, it was said, had been thought of as a son to Maria and her husband.

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https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19350202&id=2gInAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MQMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3047,938885&hl=en
http://archive.org/stream/illinoisappellat285illi/illinoisappellat285illi_djvu.txt
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19341221&id=MkFQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0QwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6978,3773677&hl=en
http://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2015/02/sheadrick-bond-turner-1869-1927.html