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Louise (Turner) Kennemer

11/8/2023

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Taken directly from pages 47 & 48 of Memories of a Community at Turners Station. Louise Kennemer was the oldest living Turner at the time of original interviews and publication of Memories of a Community at Turners Station.
​November is 
National Family Stories Month.
They tore the house down, but my dad, George Turner, was born just across the tracks over here. That's where he was born and raised. When they changed the road, they tore the house down. It just broke my heart, because it was such a pretty home.
A great big sack of cookies, it was 25 or 30 cents. My mother used to give my sisters and me a dozen eggs, and we'd bring it down here and get a whole big sack of candy with that dozen eggs. She'd put then in a little basket, and we'd bring them down here and trade them for candy. I didn't know what soda pop was when I lived down here. I don't remember soda pop when I was little. I guess they had it, but we didn't get any of it.
We used to come down here every Friday night. We'd play croquet and get haircuts. On a Friday night, the store would be full. Joe Gault and my dad were first cousins. We used to have ice cream suppers, and pies, yeah.

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Josephine (Gault) Elsey

11/1/2023

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Taken directly from pages 44 & 45 of Memories of a Community at Turners Station. November is National Family Stories Month.
Joe D. and Olive E. (Pursley) Gault both the store at Turners in 1918. He was raised at the corner of Division Street and Gault Road. She was raised at the corner of Sunshine Street and Gault Road. Joe's parents had been in a country store on Division Street, so he came with a background in merchandising. He was appointed postmaster in 1918.
The building was a wooden structure at that time with living quarters above the store. A fire destroyed the entire building in 1923, but neighbors came to them and offered to donate field stones to rebuild. Joe and Olive agreed to this and accepted the services of Tom Studley to be the builder. He took out is fee in groceries and supplies.

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History of Crescent Chapel Church

10/18/2023

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Taken directly from page 12 of Memories of a Community at Turners Station​.
The church was organized at the log cabin schoolhouse of Rock Bridge Road by Rev. Frye in 1878. At the time it was Presbyterian. 
Uncle Andy Delzell and A. C. McGinty were pastors. The schoolhouse burned in 1888, and a new school building was built in 1890 and named Crescent Chapel. Church was held in the new school building.
In 1891, prayer meetings and Sunday School were organized by Rev. W. M. Wilkerson.
In 1902, Jones Ellis from Marionville, Missouri, organized the M. P. Church, and a new building was erected in 1906.  T. A. Turner was foreman of the building.
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The church has been active since it was organized, and the average attendance is good. Donnie and Bobby Daniels sitting in the yard of the Parsonage. Crescent Chapel Church and School are in the background.
These buildings are no longer standing.
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