This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VlB.2ACE/949.1 Message Board Post: Rickey, Hi, nice to meet you cousin! My grandfather was Edgar Turner, brother of Thomas. At least now I have a general idea of the time period in which Thomas left and went to Washington (or that is where it is said he went). I had been looking for him there much earlier. Story I have is that Dode was a deputy sheriff, got beat up and almost killed by some bad guys and then he shot and killed one or more of them and the sheriff told him to leave Tx. My mother said she remembers last seeing Dode when he briefly came to Tx for the funeral of his sister, Aunt Nan as they called her. Can't think of her name right now, would have to look it up. I know Dode's father was Samuel Houston Turner, married to Amanda Franklin. Samuel's parents were Samuel Turner and Emily Midkiff. Emily's parents were Isaac Midkiff and Susanna Howell. In 1843 some of the Howell and Midkiff family went on the Oregon Trail and settled in Oregon and Washington. I think possibly Dode went there to this part of his family. Emily Midkiff's sister was Candis Midkiff, married to Ellis Peter Bean and there is a lot of information online, etc about them. Anyway, any ideas on how to locate Dode????? Where exactly he went, etc.