I'll never find my Turners, but here is a newspaper article from 1949 about Orson Oliver Turner and family. His parents were Orson A. Turner and Syrelda/Sarah Jane Anderson: Orson Oliver Turner was injured on an automobile accident on July 7, 1949 at 11:30 am which resulted in his death later that day. This accident occurred near Rolla, Missouri. The cause of death is listed as "brain trauma, contusion and hemorrhage". The death certificate states the injury resulted from "automobile passenger injury." A trephine operation was performed on Orson on July 7. This involves boring a hole in the skull to release blood before the brain herniates and the patient dies. The time of death was 11:25pm (according to death certificate). The signature on the death certificate is "Gene W. Farthing, MD" and his address is "Mayfield, Missouri." Burial for Orson was in Robberson Prairie Cemetery in Greene County, Missouri. The informant on the certificate was Mrs. Eulan Bussard, Springfield, Missouri. The address of Orson at the time of his death was 2518 N. Main Avenue, Springfield, Missouri. His parents are listed as Orson A. Turner and Syrelda Anderson. The certificate states that Orson had been a resident of Greene County for 10 years prior to his death. July 8, 1949 >From the Springfield Leader "Rolla Mishap Proves Fatal Springfield Man Dies in Strange Manner" The death of Orson Oliver Turner, 72-year old Springfieldian who died at 10:25 o'clock last night, 11 hours after an auto accident near Rolla, was due to a brain injury. Two physicians made the discovery after an autopsy at the Thieme and Son funeral home this morning. Their finding confirmed the theory that Turner suffered a severe concussion, although he was first believed to have escaped injury. When the 1942 Studebaker in which he was riding rammed in the rear of a 1948 Buick shortly after 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Turner climbed out of the car apparently unhurt, inspected the damage, and remarked they were lucky to have escaped injury. He later lost consciousness and was taken to Burge hospital with his daughter, Mrs. Eulan Bussard, 2518 North Main. Mrs. Bussard, who suffered a leg injury but wasn't hospitalized, said her father was riding in the back seat of the car driven by her husband, a Frisco employee. She believes the impact threw her father against the front seat and against the back of her husband's head. Bussard, who wasn't injured, stayed at Rolla to arrange for repairs on his badly-damaged car and returned her by train. Their daughter, Anna, 11, joined the party in the Buick to finish her trip to a national skating contest at Washington, D. C. The Buick was driven by Hoyt V. "Blackie" Perry, of 2501 North Lyon, Anna's skating teacher, who is also enroute to Washington for the contest. Riding with him are Mrs. W. W. Morrison, of 2501 North Lyon, wife of the Doling park skating rink operator, and Miss Sue Massey, 16, a Springfield girl who is last year's junior national champion speed skater. Mrs. Bussard first believed she would allow her daughter to continue to the contest without telling her of her grandfather's death, but now relatives have decided should should be returned her for examination of bruises she suffered and efforts are being made to intercept the Buick. Perry's eastbound Buick started to pass an unidentified car, just as the car started to pass a horse and wagon ahead of it. Perry applied his brakes, and Bussard's car struck the rear of the Buick. The Studebaker was badly damaged, but the Buick was able to continue the trip. Occupants of the cars were treated by a physician at Rolla, but none besides Turner were hospitalized. The accident occurred eight miles west of Rolla on highway 66. Relatives said Turner had recovered sufficiently from a recent illness to make the trip to Washington to see his granddaughter compete. He was very proud of the youngster, who recently was a winner in an eight -state contest at St. Louis. Turner had planned to pause at his birthplace in Phylo, Ill. on the return trip and visit the grave of his twin brother there. Turner, a retired farmer, was a member of St. Lukes' Methodist Church. He lived with his daughter at the North Main address. He is also survived by a son, Harold, of 1129 Concord: by eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Thieme chapel, with the Revs. B. E. Dillon, Kenneth Lawson, and Ward Popejoy officiating. Pallbearers will be John Sumner, Luther Smith, Leroy Brock, Bill Turner, Don McGee, and Charles Stokes. D Burial will be in Robberson Prairie cemetery.