FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, October 30, 1909 JASPER TURLEY "Weary and tired lays down the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, How blest the righteous when he dies." Jasper Turley was born in St. Genevieve County, in the year 1842. After 67 years he departed this life at Flat River, St. Francois County, only eight miles from the place where he was born. Indeed, in the same house where he was born, were all his children born. Eight children are yet living besides a wife and seven brothers and sisters. At 26 years of age he became a member of the Three Rivers Baptist Church, and was elected a deacon in the same. In this church, on July 24th, a large crowd of kindred and friends gathered to pay a last tribune of respect to the dead. Deacon Turley had often himself in years gone by officiated upon such occasions. And now after similar and affectionate services by others for him a long train of surreys and buggies and wagons filed slowly and sorrowfully over the hills to the cemetery and laid to rest the body of one whom they felt to have seen a righteous man, a good citizen, and a true servant of God. THEO. WHITFIELD, Pastor.