Carpentering for the Carpenter

My Grandpa, William Calvin Turner was born in Dallas Texas in 1860. His family had gradually mover further west from Georgia. Aunt Jeanne (Ted's wife) traced the family tree back three more generations to three orphaned brothers: Elijah, Elisha, and Samuel. Elijah kept moving further west and when my grandfather, pictured above, was born, four generations of Turners were living in "Turner's Point," now a part of Dallas Texas.

Grandpa married his first wife in 1880. He cowboyed and then homesteaded in Oklahoma and had a store in a little village called Tipton, New Mexico. They lost several children in infancy but they had five surviving children when his wife died in 1900. The youngest child was adopted out.

Grandpa new the Lord Jesus Christ and in his final years spent time reading the big old Family Bible he's brought with him from the southern States. He read about and then talked about where he would be going soon. He went to Heaven at age 88, a couple of years before I was born. I am looking forward to meeting the wonderful man my Dad talked so much about.