Aubrey Franklin Tur1ey (1906-1998)
(Autobiography)

 The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 323-325

Aubrey Franklin Turley was born to Edward F. and Annie S. Turley on May 25, 1906.  We were driven out of Mexico during the revolution of 1912 but I still have many fond memories of my six years in Mexico. As kids we could speak their language and we played and enjoyed the family association.  We left by train for El Paso, Texas where we stayed in a lumber yard and sheds for a while. My mother received transportation by train to Thatcher, Arizona, where Mother, Fred and Phyllis worked at anything they could, picking fruit to other farm work.

We left Arizona for Logan, Utah in Nov. of 1912, arriving in Logan where mother was born.  She had two brothers, Charles and Nephi Martineau and they helped to get us settled in Joe Cowley’s rock house in the Third Ward.  We were about the poorest people in Utah when we arrived in Logan with only the clothes on our backs.

Clara and Walter; began school but I didn't go until the following year.  My School days in Logan were good and I was always able to have a job of some kind to help out.  I went to Arizona Oct. 1, 1919 and stayed with my sister Phyllis who had married William J. Preston in 1912.  She made a good life raising a fine large family.  I worked for Bill one year and then I leased some land from him and began raising cotton, hay and lettuce.  After four years I leased the Hockin  Anderson farm.  I stayed on the Anderson farm until 1925.

On Jan. 15, 1925 I was married to Sarah E. Angle of Thatcher.  We had two children, a daughter Marjorie born May 21, 1926 and a son Marvin Boyd born Nov. 17, 1927.  Our marriage broke up in 1928.  Marjorie and Marvin and families live in Alliquippa, Pennsylvania.  Marjorie married Nick Cavaulas and they have a daughter and a son.  Marvin also married and they have six children.

In 1928 Walter and I purchased 960 acres in Hawkins Basin, Idaho.  During the depression I kept working to keep Walt and Edna and family going while making the crops.  In 1932 we were broke after three crops of wheat under 30? a bushel.  We moved from Idaho to the Whitney Farm in Blue Creek which we leased for 10 years.  In 1934 we purchased a farm in Pocatello Valley, Idaho, a few miles to the north.

Walter came down awful sick in 1934, late in the fall. The following July he passed away and left Edna with four boys. She went to Providence, Utah and stayed at her father's home for a year and then on February 6, 1936, Edna and I were married. I raised Walt's boys like my own.  There was never any difference in the love for them and the love for Max and Judy who came later.  Max W. was born Jan. 7, 1937 and Judith Rae was born April 19, 1940.  Edna was a wonderful mother to all her children and a good wife and homemaker.  She was brought up with a strong belief in the LDS Church and served well in the Primary presidency and Relief Society work in the different wards. We had a good life together with our family until she passed away June 9, 1957.  She had lots of friends wherever she lived and I know all of her children loved her and will always cherish her memory.