My wife is an old Bastrop girl and she tells me that the store in question is still there. It is located on the northwest corner of the Chestnut/Main intersection. I believe it has been sub-divided into smaller shops. My wife was a Turner; her uncle, John O. Turner, was the last owner of the business under the name "Turner". Prior to that it was owned by a man named Holt who is memorialized by a fine monument out in Fairview Cemetery. Bill Atkins in Fort Worth

Hi, My name is Gene Turner, and my father's name was John Oliver Turner. He worked and was trained to be a "tinsmith" by the son of Ed Bastian, the owner of Ed Bastian & Son Tin and Hardware store in Bastrop. When I first went to Bastrop was looking for the marriage license of my mother Claudia Marietta Nash, the daughter of Emma Jane Saxon (Emma's parents died when she was about three, and the Bastians raised her).Emma Jane married a Bastrop County lawman, my grandfather, Junius Fletcher Nash. I found out there that my mother had been married before to a "Fite". I hadn't known about this. Then I found the marriage license John Oliver Turner who married a Belle Osborn 10/28/1906, and I took it to mean that he also had been married before..... I believe my father was named after an associate of his father Vines Turner, John Oliver Cantrell. Both were Baptist ministers. My father was born in Ripley, TN. 1/13/1882 and grew up in Faulkner County AR. I doubt there is a connection, but thought the story would be interesting to you. I did find out a while back that there was indeed 2 John Oliver Turner living in Bastrop at the same time. Gene Turner Corpus Christi, TX.----- Original Message ----- From: W. B. Atkins, Jr. <wbatkins@flash.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > My wife is an old Bastrop girl and she tells me that the store in question is still there. It is located on the northwest corner of the Chestnut/Main intersection. I > believe it has been sub-divided into smaller shops. My wife was a Turner; her uncle, John O. Turner, was the last owner of the business under the name "Turner". Prior > to that it was owned by a man named Holt who is memorialized by a fine monument out in Fairview Cemetery. > > Bill Atkins in Fort Worth > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >