The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-10
HENRY G. TURNER
BREATHES HIS LAST
PROMINENT GEORGIAN DEAD.
HE PASSED AWAY AT HIS BROTH
ER's HOME IN RALEIGH.

Home in Quitman to Baltimore to
Undergo an OperatiOn-This Was
Postponed by the Physicians, ana
Judge Turner Was En- Route
Home, stopping Over In Raleigh,
When the End Came.
Quitman. Ga. June "a telegram
was received here this morning from
Raleigh. N. c., telling of the sudden
death of Hon. Henry G. Turner. which
occurred there this morning at 2 o'clock
About ten days ago. under the id
vice of his local physician, Judge Tur-
ner went to Baltimore to undergo an
operation for a gall stone in the blad-
der, from which he had been suffer-
ing for some time. The physicians
deferred the operation for a while with
the hope that he would recover with
out it and only gave him medicinal
treatment, advising him to return to
Baltimore If there was no Improvement
in thirty days.
So with the hope of recovery he was
en- route home and had stopped in Ra-
leigh for a few days visit to his
brother, feeling about as well as usual.
He had severe attack last night
and died within a few hours.
He had been suffering from these
attacks for some time. they becoming
more frequent and severe. He had
beer in failing health for several years
and had retired from all active busi-
ness life and was spending his time in
| Quitman, in his beautiful suburban
home with his family.
The remains will arrive from Raleigh
tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
and the funeral and interment will
take place Immediately afterwards.
Henry G. Turner was born in Frank
lin county, North Carolina. March 20,
1889. He received his college educa-
tion at the University of Virginia,
which he left in 1857, before completing
his collegiate course, on account OF his
fathers death. He came to Georgia
the next year and taught school in
Brooks county until the war broke
out. when he enlisted in the Confede-
rate service as private and served
until the surrender. He rose to the
rank of captain and was wound
| ed at the battle of Gettysburg. After
the war he read raw and was admitted
to the bar the same year In 1872 he
was chosen presidential elector and
voted for Charles T. Jenkins for Presi-
dent.
He was three times n'en1Ha-
of the Georgia Legislature from Brooks
county, having been elected in 1874 and
| reelected in 1876 and 1873. He was
chairman of the Committee on Elec-
tions, and in this and other important
positions rendered valuable service TO
the state. He was a member of the
! Legislature that called the Constitu-
| tional Convention of 1877. and was a
warm and earnest advocate of that inn
| portant measure. He was delegate
to the Democratic National Conven-
tion in 1875, and was elected to Con-
gress in 1880, serving in the Forty
seventh. Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiji
tieth, Fifty-first, F'ifty-second. Fifty
third and Fifty-fourth Congresses.
| In the Forty-eighth Congress he was
| appointed by Speaker Carlisle chair
man of the Committee on Elections.
the same position he had held in the
| Georgia House. In that Congress there
| came up the celebrated contested elec-
| tion case of Hurd VS.. Romeis The
argument of Representative Turner in
| that case was universally conceded by
those who heard 1t to be one OF the
ablest ever delivered on the floor OF the
| House.
| = July "a, 1903, he was appointed Judge
of the Supreme Court of Georgia by
Gov. Terrell but resigned after a short
time on the bench on account of in
health. Hon. Samuel B. Adams being
his successor.
Since his retirement from the bench
Judge Turner had spent most of his
time quietly at his home In Quitrnan.
| until he left for Baltimore.
Judge Turner married Miss Morton
in 1865, the year he began the practice
OF his profession. He was domestic
In his tastes. and entirely free from
| any effort at display. Personally his
quiet, undemonstrative manners some
times caused him to be misiudged. bur
his warmest friends were among those
who had known him longest and best
Both as state and national leelsla
tor. and as a jurist, Judge Turner was
leader In every deliberate bodv
he had signal and commanding in
huence.
Judge Turner was well known in Sa-
vannah and the news of his death was
received with genuine sorrow and with
expressions of the deepest regret.