What's Your Name?

What I know: This photograph came from the photo album of Emma Johnson Ferrer (Fred Belton collection), so it is likely a Johnson or Ferrer ancestor. The back of the photo is stamped with "Turner's Gallery, Meridian, Mississippi."  Though we weren't able to find out much (read that: anything) about the Turner Gallery, we found whispers of a J.W. Turner operating a studio on Front Street in Meridian in the 1870s. At print time, there was no proof of this rumor. We do have one clue, however: at the turn of the century, when Emma Ferrer was desperately searching for work so she could retrieve her children from the Alabama Methodist Orphanage, she was conducting her job search in ... Meridian, Mississippi. Dated letters show Emma in Meridian at least between the fall of 1898 and 1901. Emma was only in her early 30s at that time. Could this be her mother? Mrs. M.E. Johnson  was living in Melvin, Alabama according to family letters. But that's only about 40 miles away. Do you know who this is?

Is this our 3rd great grandmother?