"Ellen Eddleman- after finishing school, married Rev. Neal W. Turner, son of a Methodist preacher. He held pastorate in the Central Texas Conference. When they lived in Corsicana they took a group of boy scouts on a picnic at a lake. The boys capsized their boat but all except two could swim. Neal swam out to get the two but the boys panicked and dragged him under and all 3 drowned. Herman, one of the boys, was his own son. Again my father [Joe Wilson, husband of Georgia Wilson nee Eddleman] went and brought the bodies to Cisco for burial, Ellen and her 7 yr. old daughter Edith to live next door to Joe and Georgia. When Edith finished high school, Ellen got a job as a church secretary in Waco and Edith went to Baylor for her first year. The next year Edith got a job as dormitory mother at Texas Woman's College and continued until her retirement."
Written by Laura Fay Duncan, niece of Ellen Turner.
Family lore is that Ellen's hair turned gray over night after watching her husband and son drown from the bank of the lake.
In 1954, Ellen fell and broke her hip and never recovered. Following this accident she had several strokes, the last one causing her death in 1958.
According to her daughter, Edith, Ellen once made the following statement after someone mentioned wealth or worldly possessions:
"I would gladly live on bread and water if I had my husband back."
Written by Laura Fay Duncan, niece of Ellen Turner.
Family lore is that Ellen's hair turned gray over night after watching her husband and son drown from the bank of the lake.
In 1954, Ellen fell and broke her hip and never recovered. Following this accident she had several strokes, the last one causing her death in 1958.
According to her daughter, Edith, Ellen once made the following statement after someone mentioned wealth or worldly possessions:
"I would gladly live on bread and water if I had my husband back."
"Ellen Eddleman- after finishing school, married Rev. Neal W. Turner, son of a Methodist preacher. He held pastorate in the Central Texas Conference. When they lived in Corsicana they took a group of boy scouts on a picnic at a lake. The boys capsized their boat but all except two could swim. Neal swam out to get the two but the boys panicked and dragged him under and all 3 drowned. Herman, one of the boys, was his own son. Again my father [Joe Wilson, husband of Georgia Wilson nee Eddleman] went and brought the bodies to Cisco for burial, Ellen and her 7 yr. old daughter Edith to live next door to Joe and Georgia. When Edith finished high school, Ellen got a job as a church secretary in Waco and Edith went to Baylor for her first year. The next year Edith got a job as dormitory mother at Texas Woman's College and continued until her retirement."
Written by Laura Fay Duncan, niece of Ellen Turner.
Family lore is that Ellen's hair turned gray over night after watching her husband and son drown from the bank of the lake.
In 1954, Ellen fell and broke her hip and never recovered. Following this accident she had several strokes, the last one causing her death in 1958.
According to her daughter, Edith, Ellen once made the following statement after someone mentioned wealth or worldly possessions:
"I would gladly live on bread and water if I had my husband back."
Written by Laura Fay Duncan, niece of Ellen Turner.
Family lore is that Ellen's hair turned gray over night after watching her husband and son drown from the bank of the lake.
In 1954, Ellen fell and broke her hip and never recovered. Following this accident she had several strokes, the last one causing her death in 1958.
According to her daughter, Edith, Ellen once made the following statement after someone mentioned wealth or worldly possessions:
"I would gladly live on bread and water if I had my husband back."
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