The Marshall Messenger
Marshall, Texas
Tuesday, May 13, 1913, page 2
MAJOR JAS. TURNER HAS PASSED AWAY
Major James Turner, one of Marshall's oldest and most prominent citizens, died about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday of an illness lasting nearly a year. Last July he suffered from an attack from which he never entirely recovered, although he was bedfast very little.
He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., in 1836, and moved to Texas in 1857, and settled in Marshall and engaged in the practice of law. He married in Marshall in 1859 to Miss Eudora Knox, who died a few years ago.
Major Turner served as a Confederate soldier throughout the entire four years of the civil war, enlisting in the first company that was formed in Marshall. He served mostly in Colonel Ector's brigade. Since the close of the war he has taken very little part in the United Confederate Veterans, being naturally of a very quiet disposition.
On the sixth day of June, 1868, he had the misfortune to lose a limb by a shot that was fired in the Harrison County court house, but that did not greatly inconvenience him in his profession, which he practiced until about a year before his death.
He served as attorney for the Gould lines in Texas until about twenty five years ago, and he was considered one of Marshall's most able and eminent lawyers in his time. He was conspicuously connected with some of the most famous cases that have ever come before the courts of Texas in both civil and criminal lines.
He was well known all over this part of the country, especially in Texas, and has thousands of friends who mourn his death.
He is survived by four children: Mrs. J. E. Blair, of Corsicana, Tex.; Mrs. Eugene Bullock, of Dallas, Tex.; R. K. Turner, justice of the peace of precinct number 3, Harrison county and N. P. Turner, a civil engineer of Camaguay, Cuba.
Interment will be at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Marshall cemetery, and Rev. L. B. Elrod, of the First Methodist Church, South, will hold the services.
Contributor: Tony (46571983)
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Marshall, Texas
Tuesday, May 13, 1913, page 2
MAJOR JAS. TURNER HAS PASSED AWAY
Major James Turner, one of Marshall's oldest and most prominent citizens, died about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday of an illness lasting nearly a year. Last July he suffered from an attack from which he never entirely recovered, although he was bedfast very little.
He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., in 1836, and moved to Texas in 1857, and settled in Marshall and engaged in the practice of law. He married in Marshall in 1859 to Miss Eudora Knox, who died a few years ago.
Major Turner served as a Confederate soldier throughout the entire four years of the civil war, enlisting in the first company that was formed in Marshall. He served mostly in Colonel Ector's brigade. Since the close of the war he has taken very little part in the United Confederate Veterans, being naturally of a very quiet disposition.
On the sixth day of June, 1868, he had the misfortune to lose a limb by a shot that was fired in the Harrison County court house, but that did not greatly inconvenience him in his profession, which he practiced until about a year before his death.
He served as attorney for the Gould lines in Texas until about twenty five years ago, and he was considered one of Marshall's most able and eminent lawyers in his time. He was conspicuously connected with some of the most famous cases that have ever come before the courts of Texas in both civil and criminal lines.
He was well known all over this part of the country, especially in Texas, and has thousands of friends who mourn his death.
He is survived by four children: Mrs. J. E. Blair, of Corsicana, Tex.; Mrs. Eugene Bullock, of Dallas, Tex.; R. K. Turner, justice of the peace of precinct number 3, Harrison county and N. P. Turner, a civil engineer of Camaguay, Cuba.
Interment will be at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Marshall cemetery, and Rev. L. B. Elrod, of the First Methodist Church, South, will hold the services.
Contributor: Tony (46571983)
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The Marshall Messenger
Marshall, Texas
Tuesday, May 13, 1913, page 2
MAJOR JAS. TURNER HAS PASSED AWAY
Major James Turner, one of Marshall's oldest and most prominent citizens, died about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday of an illness lasting nearly a year. Last July he suffered from an attack from which he never entirely recovered, although he was bedfast very little.
He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., in 1836, and moved to Texas in 1857, and settled in Marshall and engaged in the practice of law. He married in Marshall in 1859 to Miss Eudora Knox, who died a few years ago.
Major Turner served as a Confederate soldier throughout the entire four years of the civil war, enlisting in the first company that was formed in Marshall. He served mostly in Colonel Ector's brigade. Since the close of the war he has taken very little part in the United Confederate Veterans, being naturally of a very quiet disposition.
On the sixth day of June, 1868, he had the misfortune to lose a limb by a shot that was fired in the Harrison County court house, but that did not greatly inconvenience him in his profession, which he practiced until about a year before his death.
He served as attorney for the Gould lines in Texas until about twenty five years ago, and he was considered one of Marshall's most able and eminent lawyers in his time. He was conspicuously connected with some of the most famous cases that have ever come before the courts of Texas in both civil and criminal lines.
He was well known all over this part of the country, especially in Texas, and has thousands of friends who mourn his death.
He is survived by four children: Mrs. J. E. Blair, of Corsicana, Tex.; Mrs. Eugene Bullock, of Dallas, Tex.; R. K. Turner, justice of the peace of precinct number 3, Harrison county and N. P. Turner, a civil engineer of Camaguay, Cuba.
Interment will be at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Marshall cemetery, and Rev. L. B. Elrod, of the First Methodist Church, South, will hold the services.
Contributor: Tony (46571983)
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Marshall, Texas
Tuesday, May 13, 1913, page 2
MAJOR JAS. TURNER HAS PASSED AWAY
Major James Turner, one of Marshall's oldest and most prominent citizens, died about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday of an illness lasting nearly a year. Last July he suffered from an attack from which he never entirely recovered, although he was bedfast very little.
He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., in 1836, and moved to Texas in 1857, and settled in Marshall and engaged in the practice of law. He married in Marshall in 1859 to Miss Eudora Knox, who died a few years ago.
Major Turner served as a Confederate soldier throughout the entire four years of the civil war, enlisting in the first company that was formed in Marshall. He served mostly in Colonel Ector's brigade. Since the close of the war he has taken very little part in the United Confederate Veterans, being naturally of a very quiet disposition.
On the sixth day of June, 1868, he had the misfortune to lose a limb by a shot that was fired in the Harrison County court house, but that did not greatly inconvenience him in his profession, which he practiced until about a year before his death.
He served as attorney for the Gould lines in Texas until about twenty five years ago, and he was considered one of Marshall's most able and eminent lawyers in his time. He was conspicuously connected with some of the most famous cases that have ever come before the courts of Texas in both civil and criminal lines.
He was well known all over this part of the country, especially in Texas, and has thousands of friends who mourn his death.
He is survived by four children: Mrs. J. E. Blair, of Corsicana, Tex.; Mrs. Eugene Bullock, of Dallas, Tex.; R. K. Turner, justice of the peace of precinct number 3, Harrison county and N. P. Turner, a civil engineer of Camaguay, Cuba.
Interment will be at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Marshall cemetery, and Rev. L. B. Elrod, of the First Methodist Church, South, will hold the services.
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