Thomas Jefferson Turley, descendant of one of Memphis' oldest families and one of the prominent mortgage and real estate men in the mid-south, died suddenly at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, Goodwyn and Southern, opposite the Memphis Country Club. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. Charles F. Blaisdell, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, will be held at the residence this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Judge Charles N. burch, Henry Wetter, S.E. Ragland, W.P. Metcalf, S.M. Neely, Paul Dillard, W.P. Battle and Dr. Battle Malson. Mr. Turley had been in bad health for about four weeks with a kidney ailment, but continued business. He was at his offices Wednesday. Early Thursday morning, after going downstairs to get The Commercial Appeal, he was lying down reading the paper when he called out to his wife that he thought he was drying. He died shortly after Mrs. Turley reached him. Death was attributed to acute uremic poisoning. Mr. Turley was president of the Turley Mortgage Company and T.J. Turley & Co. He was president of the Memphis Country Club for a number of years and a member of the Tennessee Club. Mr. Turley was a member of Calvary Church. He was descended from the Battle and Boddie families, two of the oldest families in the south. His father and his grandfather, for whom he was named, were two of the builders of Memphis. He was born Nov. 27, 1874, in the old Turley home at Linden and Wellington, built by his grandfather and still owned by the family. He went to school at the old Memphis Military Academy, then taught by Prof. Wharton B. Jones. He was a student at Webb School, Bellbuckle, Tenn., Virginia Military Institute, and the University of Virginia. He finished school in 1900 and returned to Memphis to enter the Memphis Trust Company, later merged into the present Bank of Commerce and Trust Company. After four years he went into the real estate business for himself as T.J. Turley & Co., later formed a partnership with the late Cylon Frazer Sr., in 1908, then with Millard Naill as Turley-Frazer-Naill, in 1911. In 1913 he organized the firm of Turley & Naill with offices on Second, next door to The Commercial Appeal. Turley & Naill formed a partnership with Percy Galbreath as Turley-Naill-Galbreath Company, in 1917. In 1920 another partnership was made with John P. Bullington as Turley-Bullington Mortgage Company, and in 1931, Mr. Bullington was bought out and the present firm of Turley Mortgage Company formed. Mr. Turley's principal interests for the past 15 years had been in mortgages. His father, the late Thomas Battle Turley, who died a number of years ago, a Confederate veteran, was United States senator for four years, appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Isham G. Harris. Mr. Turley, in 1908, married Miss Shallye Johnson, daughter of Mrs. Virginia Johnson, of an old Fayette County family. He is survived, besides his wife, by his mother, Mrs. Irene Rayner Turley; two sisters, Mrs. John Mary and Mrs. John Trenholm, and a brother, E.R. Turley, all prominent Memphians. Spencer-Sturla is in charge of funeral arrangements. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on July 15, 1932)

From death certificate:
Thomas Jefferson Turley
Southern & Goodwyn, Memphis
Male, White, Married, Age 58
Wife - Mrs. Shalley Johnston Turley
Trade - Real Estate
Birthplace - Tenn.
Father - Sen. Thos. J. Turley, born Tenn.
Mother's Maiden - Irene Hodges, born Tenn.
Burial - Elmwood
Undertaker - Spencer-Sturla

Additional information provided by Find A Grave contributor GENEALOGYLOVE:
THOMAS JEFFERSON TURLEY one of the leading real estate mortgage loan men of the Mid-South is a native of Memphis, where he had 5pm; his entire life. He was born November 27 1876, at the old Turley homestead on the northeast corner of Linden avenue and Wellington street, where his father was born and died, the son of Thomas and Irene (Rayner) Turley. His grandfather, for whom he is named, and great-uncle, Justice "William V. Turley have left their impress stamped for all time on the development of the law in Tennessee, while the Battle and Boddie families, from which he is descended also, are two of the oldest, largest and best families in the South. On his mother's side he comes from Í one of the sturdiest Fayette County families. Mr. Turley's father, a Confederate soldier at sixteen years of age and in every engagement with the Army of the Tennessee from Belmont to Bentonville; a member of the United States Senate by appointment and then by election from 1897 to 1901, was surpassed during his long career by no man in the South for his attainments as a lawyer and as a statesman; for his kindness of heart, soundness of judgment and honesty. Mr. Turley inherited the character and attainments of both of his parents. He was educated at the Memphis Military Academy, the Virginia Military Academy and at the University of Virginia. 1n 1896 he entered the business world as an employee of the Memphis Trust Company, which later by consolidation with an old bank, became the Bank of Commerce & Trust Company. After ten years of training in that financial institution, Mr. Turley went into business for himself, dealing in real estate. He has added mortgage loans to that business, now being head of the Turley-Bullington Mortgage Company and vice-president of theTur ley, Naill & Galbreath Company, one of the largest real estate firms in the South. His judgment, frankness and honesty are given full faith and credit in any business transaction iii Memphis and he is held in the same esteem by Eastern concerns wishing to make large loans in this section. Mr. Turley and Miss Shallye Johnston were married June 27, 1906. They live at the Memphis Country Club of which Mr. Turley has been president for a number of terms. He is also a member of the Tennessee Club. (Excerpt from https://play.google.com/books/reader? id=VUhEAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover& output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA840