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Back to Ann Lewis's Table of Contents Walter Boyd Turley (1903-1935) The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 321-322 Walter Boyd Turley, son of Edward Franklin and Annie Sariah Martineau Walser Turley, was born Oct. 22, 1903 in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. In July 1912 along with his mother two sisters and five brothers, he moved to Logan, Utah where he finished his schooling, graduating from high school. Instead of going on to college he decided to help his new stepfather and work on the farm. He was married to Edna Pickett of Providence, Utah Nov. 18, 1925. They stayed on in Beaver Dam, Utah until 1928 and moved to Blue Creek, Utah where he and another young farmer, Tom Roberts, were taken in as partners by his stepfather, Arvin J. Hawkes . Walter became disappointed in the arrangement and so took his share of the crop and bought a small farm near Downey, Idaho. While plowing on some rocky ground he was thrown and was severely injured. After recuperating in the hospital in Pocatello, Idaho he found that he couldn't handle all the heavy work and so sold the little farm and bought and leased some land in Pocatello Valley, part in Idaho and part in Utah. He used hired help on the farm and was prospering with good crops and his family. The four boys were getting to the age where they could help on the farm. Their first child, Marian, was born Nov. 30, 1926. She died July 10, 1928. Walter began losing weight and went into the Tremonton Hospital where he died July 4, 1935 with cancer of the liver. It is thought that the accident while plowing could have caused the cancer. He lived a good clean life and was active in church work wherever he lived and was a good example for his family, friends, hired help and all with whom he associated. At his funeral there were five speakers--coming from different wards where he had previously lived and participated. On February 25, 1936, Edna Pickett Turley married again to Aubrey Franklin Turley, Walter's brother. She died June 9, 1957 in Salt Lake City.
Children of Walter Boyd and Edna Pickett Turley: Marian, born Nov. 30, 1926; died July 10, 1928 Harlan Boyd, born May 11, 1929 Grant Ellsmere, born May 25, 1931 Lowell Reese, born March 19, 1933 Alan Edward, born February. 23, 1935; died March 15, 1956
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