This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turner, Hairston, Cave, Dodd Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5396 Message Board Post: The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger Thursday, July 6, 1933 "W.D. Turner is Buried Friday in Rockdale" "Prominent Man Found Dead in Bathroom of Home Here" The funeral of W.D. Turner, age 70, was held from the family home on West Cameron street at five o’clock last Friday afternoon. Mr. Turner had been found dead in the bathroom of his home Thursday evening with a pistol bullet through his head, the verdict of coroner Leo Harris being that he came to his death by gunshot, self-inflicted. Mr. Turner had been in bad health for a number of years, and for the past several months had suffered intensely. The religious rites were conducted at the home by Rev. H.E. Crone, pastor of the Christian church, of which decedent had long been a member. Interment was in the New City Cemetery. Pallbearers were Messrs. E.A. Camp, Ed Gunn, W. T. Ramsel, C.M. Sessions, J. Branch Lewis and Eddie Backhaus. W.D. Turner was a native of Tennessee. As a young boy he came to Texas with his father’s family in a covered wagon shortly after the Civil War. He was left an orphan at an early age. He had lived in and near Rockdale for fifty-years, for the past 30 years maintaining a home in town. He is survived by two sons and two daughters: L.D. Turner of Thorndale, and H.H. Turner, postmaster of Rockdale; Mrs. Irvin Smith of Dallas, and Miss Nettie Turner, a member of the local public school faculty. His wife died about seven years ago. “Bill” Turner, as he was known to his friends, was a good man and a good citizen. For many years he engaged in the live stock business in Rockdale, selling and buying horses, mules and hogs. He had paid out more money to the farmers of this vicinity for hogs than any other man who was ever in that line of business. With the late Lee Hale as a business partner Turner had paid as high as $100, 000 in a single season for hogs. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World lodges.