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Obit For Margaret Caroline (Sherwood) (Lyford) Turner
Headline Mrs. J. W. Turner Dead
Text Following an illness of two weeks, Mrs. J. W. Turner passed away at her home of the family in north part of town, Thursday evening, Jan. 26, 1911, aged 48 years, 5 months and 26 days.

For weeks before Mrs. Turner was taken ill she had nursed her daughter, Miss Fay Lyford through a spell of typhoid. She contacted the dreaded disease which caused her death while a carefully and faithfully nursing her little daughter back to health.

Mrs. Margaret Caroline Turner was born in Shelby County, Ohio, in 1862, moved to Illinois is 1878 and lived near Tower Hill until she was married to John W. Turner in 1909.

Her first marriage was to Edward Lyford whom death called in 1901. To them were born three children, two daughters, Mrs. Eva Vincent of Pena, Ill., Miss Fay, who lived with her mother and Will Lyford, of Shelbyville, Ill.

She was united in marriage to John W. Turner in 1909 and since lived in Cassville. She was a sister of J. W. and Henry Sherwood and of Mrs. B.F. Funk all of Cassville.

Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church Saturday Jan. 28, at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. J. T. Brattin and interment made at Oak Hill Cemetery.

During the short time she had lived in Cassville, Mrs. Turner's friends were numbered by her acquaintances who had recognized in her a noble character and a faithful and devoted mother, wife, friend, and neighbor. The bereaved have the deepest sympathy of the people of Cassville in their hours of grief.
Newspaper Cassville Republican
Date Feb. 2, 1911, Thursday
Death Cert Link Death Certificate
Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Donna Cooper