Mary Beverly Turner was born around February 1856 in Fauquier County, Virginia, to Edward and Sarah Turner. Her father was a farmer who owned $56,800 of real estate and $59,305 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Fauquier County. She married Edward P. Turner on September 29, 1880, and they had at least two children: Virginia, born around 1881; and Frances, born around 1883. They lived in Scott, Virginia, and her husband died sometime before 1900. She died sometime after 1910.