Turner, Marce

TURNER, SEELEY, ROACH, WATSON

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 10/23/2009 at 07:08:49

Turner, Marce

Success could not fail to attend the efforts of such a persistent and energetic worker as Marce Turner, of Kellogg Township, for his motto seems to have always been that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. He was born in Rails County, Missouri, June 5, 1870, and he is the son of George and Malinda (Seeley) Turner, the father born also in Rails County, that state, on June 1, 1840. The father followed farming during the earlier years of his life, later taking up carpentering, painting, blacksmithing and carriage making, following these until his death, on March 10, 1890; his widow survives, making her home in Cherokee County, Kansas.

Marce Turner grew to maturity in his native county and in Kansas, spending his boyhood days assisting his father and attending the public schools. He started in life for himself by driving a stage, later took up freighting, then turned his attention to painting and carpentry. He came to Kellogg Township, Jasper County, in 1900 and here worked on the farm by the month until in March 1909, when he rented eighty acres.

Mr. Turner was married October 22, 1899, to Maggie Watson, who was born in Michigan, February 14, 1883, the daughter of Lynn B. and Mary (Roach) Watson, the father having been born in Kansas in 1856, and the mother's birth occurred in Iowa in 1855. Mrs. Turner received a good education in the common schools and she came to Iowa when young.

Marce Turner is one of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters, namely: Molly is deceased; George is deceased; Elija is deceased; Laura, Lucy, Cordelia and Cornelius (twins), Eugene, Joseph, Mandy and Marce.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, a son and a daughter, namely: Virginia F., whose birth occurred November 20, 1900, and Virgil Eugene, who was born December 9, 1903.

Politically, Mr. Turner is a Republican, and, fraternally, he belongs to the Woodmen. He is a member of the Christian Church. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 735.