EDITH LOUISE PERSON
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C15  EDITH LOUISE PERSON was born October 29, 1923 on White Oak mountain in 
Van Buren County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of B13- Herbert and IL2-   Ethel 
Armstead Person. She and her brother  Neal spent the winter at Lakeview with their 
Aunt and Uncle  M. S. Hignight and attended her first school.
    
In 1932 her family moved to Russellville when she attended grade school.
    
The family moved to Cotton Town in Carden Bottom and she attended school at 
Carden Bottom High. In 1941, her father,  Herbert, with his three children moved to 
Wing to be near his sister,  Adelaide.
    
 Edith finished high school at Fourche Valley and attended a term at Arkansas 
Polytechnic College in Russellville.
    
On May 26, l943 she and  Miles Buel Turner married. Buel was born January 17, 1907 at 
Wing (Yell County) the son of  John and  Effie Woolbright Turner.
    
Edith worked at Ola for her sister-in-law,  Mima Buford, at her cafe. She took a beauty 
course in Hot Springs and established her own business in Ola, Arkansas. Later she 
bought land and built her own salon.
    
After the death of her father in 1966 she added rooms to the rear of her shop for a 
home. Her mother,  Ethel, lives there with her in 1968.