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Worth County, Georgia
Biographies
Turner, William Joseph, M. D.,
who
is established in the successful practice of his profession in
Ashburn, Worth county, and known as an able physician and surgeon, was
born in Cusseta, Chattahoochee county, Ga., Dec. 20, 1868, a son of
Olynthus W. and Emma H. (Shipp) Turner, the former born near Cuthbert,
Randolph county, Ga., July 22, 1845, and the latter in Cusseta,
Chattahoochee county, Feb. 13, 1847. The paternal grandfather of Doctor
Turner was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a
soldier in the Confederate service during the war between the states.
Olynthus W. Turner, in the year 1863, also tendered his aid in
upholding the cause of the Confederacy, enlisting as a private in
Company E, Thirty-first Georgia infantry, with which he participated in
a number of important engagements, including the battles of Morton's
Ford, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Gettysburg, Cedar Creek, Hatcher's
Run, Petersburg, and a spirited engagement near Appomattox, besides
numerous skirmishes and other minor engagements. He was captured the
day prior to Lee's surrender and was taken to Newport News, Va., where
he was paroled in June, 1865. Doctor Turner secured his early education
in the schools of his native place, and completed his technical
training in Atlanta, Ga., where he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1893, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine and coming
forth well fortified for the work of his chosen profession. He is one
of the representative members of the medical fraternity in Turner
county, having been engaged in the practice of his profession in
Ashburn since 1895, and is held in high esteem in the community. He is
a member of the Medical Association of Georgia, is a Democrat in his
political proclivities, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the
Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his
religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church South. Mrs.
Turner is a zealous member of the Baptist church. On Feb. 13, 1894, was
solemnized the marriage of Doctor Turner to Miss Julia H., daughter of
Benjamin F. and Leannah V. (Holomon) Cawley, of Macon, Ga., and the two
children of this union are Hazel and Olynthus C.
Source: GEORGIA Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form EDITED BY
Ex-Governor ALLEN D. CANDLER AND General CLEMENT A. EVANS Vo. 3
1906
