Mrs. Fannie Hoover
Known Name(s)
Mrs. Fannie Hoover
Address
439 E. State St. Murfreesboro, TN
Establishment Type(s)
Tourist Home
Physical Status
Extant
Detailed History
Name listed in 1930 Hackley and Harrison's Guide for Colored Travelers. This house was operated for a short while in the early 1930s as a tourist home by Fannie Bright Hoover (1906-1986), who was then single. A white native of Rutherford County, Fannie attended two years of college (presumedly MTSU) and worked as a schoolteacher. She married Samuel Donnell Turney (1891-1963), a widower, in the late 1930s and moved to Nashville where he got a job as a postal clerk at the Tennessee State Prison. Fannie also went to work at the TSP as an assistant postal clerk, and in 1940 they lived on the prison grounds.
Research indicates that Mrs. M.E. Howland's tourist home at 439 E. State was the same tourist home as Mrs. Fannie Hoover's, listed incorrectly in Green Book issues as being located at 429 E. State. Mrs. Howland's business was listed in the Green Book from 1946-1960
