Edith Turner
Leader of the Nottoway (c. 1754–1838) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the English-American anthropologist, poet, and educator, see Edith Turner (anthropologist).
Edith Turner (ca. 1754 – February or March 1838), sometimes known as Edy Turner or Edie Turner, or by her personal name Wané Roonseraw, was a leader – often styled "chief" or "queen"[1] – among the Nottoway people of Virginia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.