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- from "The Houston Post" 14 Jul 1906
Mr. Pentleton Turner, son of Caption E.P. Turner, arrived in the city yesterday to attend the bedside of his father, who is now critically ill at the residence of Judge John A. Kirlicks.
- from "The Houston Chronicle", 31 Jan 1907 (genealogybank.com)
THE COURTS
A subscription paper was being circulated by prominent lawyers at the court house this morning to obtain funds ot pay the expenses incurred by Caption Turner at a private sanitarium in this city, where the old gentleman, who is a former Confederate soldier was for a long time a leading member of the bar here, is now confined. A wife and son in Tennessee, and a son-William Baker Turner-in New York, are living, but Captain Turner has been without resources, and the subscription, which is meeting with a liberal response, is to prevent him from being taken to the poorhouse.
- From "The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia"
Edmund Pendleton Turner, '59, of Houston, Texas, died at Sewanee, Tenn., July 31, 1907, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis suffered more than a year earlier. Interment was made in the family burying ground at Oropaxie, New Kent County, Va. Captain Turner was born in 1835. From 1855 to 1859 he was a student in the academic department of the University of Virginia, and later graduated in law from one of the colleges of the North. He was a soldier in the Confederate army, and rose to the command of his company. For many years prior to his death he was engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Houston.
- from "The Galveston Daily News", 22 May 1895 (Portal to Texas History)
The following veterans were observed on the streets to-day making final preparations to "fall into ranks" at the grand confederate muster to-morrow...
Captain Edmund P. Turner, chief adjutant general on Gerneral Magruder's staff and the most popular man at headquarters, as he always treated privates in the ranks with the same courtesy shown commissioned officers. He always parted his hair in the middle, girl style, and he keeps it up yet.
- from "The Richmond Times Dispatch", 6 Aug 1907
LENEXA, NEW KENT CO., VA. August 5. - Captain Edmund Pendleton Turner, for a long time of Houston, Texas, died last Wednesday in Sewanee, Tenn., from the effects of a severe stoke of paralysis, which he suffered more than a year ago. His remains were brought to Virginia by his son, Pendleton Turner and interred in the family burying-ground at Oropax, New Kent county. Captain Turner was born in New Kent county, Va., seventy-one years ago, and was, therefore, of the right age to serve the South in her great struggle, the end of which found him the captain of his company. He attended the University of Virginia for several sessions as an academic student, and later graduated in law from one of the Northern institutions. Like many others of his time, he went South and practiced his profession in the city of Houston, Texas, for many years. He is survived by a widow, two children, one brother, Dr. John D. Turner, of this place, and one sister Mrs. L.T. Huffman, also of Lanexa.
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1835 - 1907 (71 years)
