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/5395 Message Board Post: The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger Thursday, September 3, 1925 Obituary Mrs. W.D. Turner Near Rockdale on March 15, 1867 there was born to Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Hairston, a daughter whom they called Ann. When she was six years old her mother died and her father later married Miss Martha Louise Dodd who has all these years been a good mother and very much loved by Ann. On November 15, 1885, Miss Ann Hairston was married to W.D. Turner, and resided, at different intervals, in the country, at Milano, and finally in 1902 located permanently in Rockdale. To this union was born five children, L.D., Nettie, Sullivan, Lettie, and Homer H. all living except Sullivan, who died five years ago and for whom his mother never ceased to grieve—but it was not a rebellious grief for Mrs. Turner trusted God in everything and ever continued in the faith she professed when quite a young girl, uniting at that time with the Christian church. For quite thirty years Mrs. Turner had been a sufferer from an infected limb and ten years ago it became necessary to have one limb amputated, but as she went to the operation she was firm in her faith that God would keep her and so expressed herself to her pastor, who she requested to stay near and pray for her; later the disease settled in the other limb and her suffering was intense but during the period in the sanitarium and the years of the pain she exhibited a patience and cheerfulness that was remarkable to all whose lives she touched. It was, I believe, an old Jewish philosopher who said, “God could not be everywhere so He made Mothers.” But I like to think of God as being everywhere and conferring even a greater honor upon Mothers—that of partnership—and this is the way Mrs. Turner lived, always sacrificing for her children and by consecration and prayer keeping in touch with God and trying to direct their lives into paths of righteousness and peace, but on Aug. 9 she was stricken with fever and after seventeen days of battling to overcome it her strength gave way and on Tuesday afternoon, Aug., 25, 1925, just as the day was ending, her life on this earth came to an end and she died as she had lived—peacefully and quietly. Death had no terror for her: she had fought a good fight, she had kept her faith, and henceforth there is laid up for her a crown of righteousness. In the simple earnest and self-sacrificing life she led, she has left an heritage to all who have! known her. To the bereaved husband—to whom she was a loving and devoted wife; to the sons and daughters—to whom she was a thoughtful and sacrificing mother; to the aged father and loved ones, we extend our sympathy and commend them to our Heavenly Father’s care and keeping. After the services, conducted in the home by her pastor, Bro. Roberts, who gave a beautiful eulogy upon her life, the remains were interred in the New City Cemetery, the active pallbearers being Messrs. Conn Isaacs, B.W. Baldridge, E.A. Swafford, T.B. Ryan, Walter Ramsel and E.I.Wade. —Contributed