Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turner, John W., 1940 

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Highway Mishaps Fatal To Three Near Suffolk 

Two Central Hill Men Killed As Car Leaves Route 460 At Providence Church; 
   Murfreesboro Man Dies Here 

  Two men were instantly killed and a third died in a Suffolk hospital 
Saturday night as a result of week end highway accidents in nearby counties. 

  Landwood [sic; Linwood] H. Edwards, 54, and John W. Turner, 58, both of 
Central Hill community, Isle of Wight county, were killed yesterday morning 
when the automobile in which they were driving overturned near Providence 
Church, four miles northwest of Suffolk, on Route 460. 

  William Bellfield, of Murfreesboro, N.C., died at a local hospital Saturday 
night of injuries received an hour earlier when the truck in which he and a 
group of other workers at a Murfreesboro plant, overturned after running off 
the shoulder of tbe highway between Murfreesboro and Rich Square, N.C. 

  Edwards and Turner, were said to have been coming in the direction of 
Suffolk when their automobile left the highway turning over several times, 
burying them beneath the wreckage. 

  The accident was investigated by State Trooper H.W. Burgess, who, on 
arrival, found both men had sustained fractured skulls.  He said that the 
accident apparently had not involved any other automobile. 

  Edwards is survived by his wife, Pearl Edwards; a son, Lee Edwards; a 
mother, Mrs. George Edwards; and a sister, Mrs. J.W. Wilson, all of Isle of 
Wight County. 

  Funeral services for Mr. Edwards were held at Central Hill Baptist Church 
this afternoon at 3 p.m., with the pastor, the Rev. George Kissinger, 
officiating.  Burial was in the church cemetery. 

  Mr. Turner is survived by two brothers, L.H. and LaFayette Turner, of Isle 
of Wight County, and three sisters, Mrs. J.O. Stephenson and Mrs. Nettie Carr, 
of Isle of Wight, and Mrs. Byrum Carr, of Norfolk. 

  Funeral services for Mr. Turner were held this afternoon at Central Hill 
Baptist Church at 3 o'clock by the Rev. George Kissinger.  Burial was made in 
the family cemetery near Windsor. 

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JOHN W. TURNER 

  Funeral services for John W. Turner who was killed in an automobile accident 
on the Suffolk-Windsor highway were conducted Monday, February 26th, at 2 
o'clock at Central Hill Baptist Church by the Rev. George Kissinger, pastor. 

  The choir, accompanied by Mrs. Effie Seward, sang "Going Down the Valley One 
by One" and "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder."  Mrs. Ada Hall and Mrs. 
Charles Batten sang "In the Land Where We Never Grow Old."  A pall of Easter 
lilies and pink roses covered the casket. 

   Active pallbearers were W.J. Harrell, J.L. Stephenson, B.V. Carr, J.O. 
Stephenson, Jr., F.H. and J.L. Carr, H.J. Whitley and C.L. Bradshaw.  Burial 
was in the family cemetery near Windsor. 


John William TURNER, carpenter, 
b. 5 Feb 1881*, Isle of Wight Co., killed in crash 25 Feb 1940, Hwy. 460, 
interred in the family cemetery*, near Windsor, 26 Feb 1940, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 288, Mon., Feb. 26, 1940, p. 1; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 20, No. 49, Thurs., Mar. 7, 1940, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Find a Grave identifies this as the Turner Cemetery on Tar Rd., and lists 
   five individuals there: John William TURNER (Memorial #156699618), his 
   father Andrew Jackson TURNER (1848 - 1920), his mother Nancy A. (THORNE) 
   TURNER (1852 - 1932), his brother "Lennie" Leonard Harrison TURNER (1889 - 
   1976), and Mary Ella (WHITLEY) TURNER (1850 - 1930). 

However, the only grave marked there is Lennie, a disabled Army veteran of 
   WW-I.  Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #109: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Further, Mary Ella (WHITLEY; Mrs. John T.) TURNER (1850 - 1938) is actually 
   buried in the Turner #2 Cemetery on Trump Town Rd.  IWCHS GSSTF report #132 
   lists her twice - d. 1938 & 1939. 

There is a different Andrew Jackson TURNER (1849 - 1920) marked with his first 
   wife & parents in the Turner Cemetery on Harry Wilson Rd. 
   {IWCHS GSSTF report #34} 

D.Cert. 5000 (Chuckatuck #64) gives his father as H.H. TURNER; Single; the 
   informant was M.S. TURNER of Windsor - possibly John's brother Mills Shade 
   TURNER. 

Mills (1886 - 1957) is buried in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

The 1900 Census - Windsor Dist., Isle of Wight Co. - gives b. Feb 1879. 


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