Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turner, B. Sidney, 1932 

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BENJAMIN SIDNEY TURNER

   There seems to be in each rural community some person who has been so long 
identified with that community and so generally and favorably known that it is 
difficult to visualize that community without remembering this face and this 
character.  It is indeed a distinct shock to that community when such a 
character is suddenly removed from its midst and its people contemplate the 
adjustment of its life separated from his genial disposition and kindly manner.

   B. Sidney Turner was such a person in the Drewryville community, and his 
passing on Friday, June 3, was a day of sorrow not only to his immediate 
family but to the community that had so long called him friend.  He was a 
native of the community, born March 10, 1878, the son of George W. and Mrs. 
Bettie Moore Turner, at Oak Grove near Hebron.  On January 37, 1898, he was 
married to Miss Sally Hunter Leigh, the daughter of the late William E. Leigh 
of the Hebron community and sister of Joshua Leigh and V.R. Leigh of 
Drewryville.  For seven years the couple resided at the old Ben Turner farm 
and in 1905 moved to the village of Drewryville where the remaining years of 
his life were spent.

   The most of his business life was spent on the road as a salesman and he 
was employed for long periods by the Thomas Hardware Co., and the Lyman R. 
Brothers Co. of Suffolk.  During these years he made a host of acquaintances 
not only among the members of his profession but among those with whom he had 
business and social contacts.  He was large [of] stature and of heart; genial 
in disposition, cordial and jovial by nature and affable in manner.  In the 
affection and esteem of his friends he was known as "Big Six" and so intimate 
were his relations with everyone that no one hardly knew him by any other 
name.  "Big Six" had been in failing health for the past three years and had 
been a patient at the Lakeview Hospital for several months during this period. 
When he was last stricken, realizing the seriousness of his condition, he 
refused to be taken away for treatment, choosing as he said, to die among his 
friends and amid the surroundings that were so dear to his heart.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sally Leigh Turner, who ministered to his 
last moments with hands of love and tenderness - she who endowed by nature 
with love and tenderness has so dedicated her virtues to deeds of mercy that 
in this supreme demand upon her devotion brought to it not only love and 
tenderness but capability and efficiency as well.  He is also survived by one 
sister, Mrs. Joshua Leigh of Drewryville and two brothers, Joe Barnes Turner 
of St. Stephens, S.C. and George M. Turner of Williamsburg.

   He was buried at the old Leigh farm on Sunday afternoon, June 5, 1932. 
The community mourns in the passing of Sidney Turner.   A Friend.


Benjamin Sidney "Big Six" TURNER, salesman, 
b. 10 Mar 1878, Oak Grove, near Hebron, d. 3 Jun 1932, at home, Drewryville, 
interred in the LEIGH family cemetery, near Drewryville, 5 Jun 1932, 
re-interred in Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery*, Drewryville, 1981, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 17, 1932 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Drewryville list (D-27): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 


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