Sunday, March 4, 2012

Who is Roxy Turner?

No, my name is not Roxy Turner, but sometimes, I wish it was.  Roxy Turner was my paternal great-grandmother and from the moment I heard her name, I thought she sounded like a stripper.  I wondered what her existence was like to have turned to a life of revealing her body to make ends meet.  Did she enjoy it?

Of course,  as far as I know, she was never a stripper.  In fact, I know very little about her.  My monthly payment to ancestry.com has turned up very little on Roxy Turner.  She married John Shaffer at an early age, had several children with him and died in her thirties.  He remarried and nothing more has been noted about her.  Who was she?  An enigma.  Much like the inside of my mind.  To be revealed.  Slowly, layer by layer.