The update on the James Turner III & Margaret Fulk Turner history is now ready!

Lois May Rhodes and Pat Turner Ritchie combined forces to update the generations and uncover more information on the Turners.

This update of Goldie May’s 1977 Turner book (little blue book) focuses on the ten children of James and Margaret: Catherine Turner Barrix, Mary Turner Fitzwater, Isaac Turner, Susannah Turner Roadcap, Sarah Turner Orebaugh, Josiah Turner, Amanda Turner Byrd, Daniel Turner, Benjamin Turner, and Naason Turner. It also contains:

• Hundreds of photos and old Turner documents and letters that were handed down in the family.
• Color dust jacket designed by cousin KB Getz of Broadway,
• 850 pages, indexed.
• Identified photo of the 1939 Turner reunion at Fulks Run.
• Notes on the Frankforter family, Christian Fulk family, and an outline of the James Turner I family branches.
• Hunting stories from the 1890s written by famous bear hunter Adam M. Turner.

Books are $40 each. Purchase from Lois Rhodes, 13728 Turleytown Rd., Broadway, VA 22815 (call first at 540 896-2683), or at Fulks Run Grocery (Turner Hams), Fulks Run.

For mail orders, contact Lois by phone or email lmayrhodes@yahoo.com ; they are $45 which includes shipping.

Please feel free to share this information with your family.

We thank you for sharing your family data and photographs with us and for your encouraging words over the years. We’ve been working on this labor of love since 2004 and are pleased to share the final product with you.

Your cousins,

Lois May Rhodes & Pat Turner Ritchie

Thanks to all who attended and helped put on the 23rd Brocks Gap Heritage Day

About 350 people attended our 23rd annual Brocks Gap Heritage Day on April 20th, and they came from 11 different states. Here's a sample of one of the four programs, a ten-minute interview on YouTube made by ShenandoahValleyTV. View it at http://www.youtube.com/shenandoahvalleytv

Keep up with the progress on Jeff Evans' research on pie safes at http://thevirginiasafeproject.com/ or their Facebook page.  Jeff gathered information on two more Brocks Gap furniture makers in addition to Philip F. Baker.

The Turner Book update will be going to the printer soon. Lois Rhodes was taking orders for the book on Sat. The hardback book will have 850+ pages and many photographs and pictures of old Turner documents.

23^rd  Annual

Brocks Gap Heritage Day

Saturday, April 20, 2013

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fulks Run Elementary School

Over 130 photo displays of Brocks Gap scenes & people.  New books for sale. Book signings by authors. Research books available to use.

Special programs:

11:30         Pie Safe Designs and their making

Jeffrey S. Evans is founder of Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers in Mt. Crawford, VA. He formerly served as president and head of the Catalogued Auction division of Green Valley Auctions, Inc. (1979-2008). Jeff and Kurt C. Russ, former director of Washington and Lee University's Laboratory of Anthropology and independent scholar from Lexington, began a research project in 2010 of pie safes in the Shenandoah Valley. The culmination of their research will be a pie safe exhibit in 2014 at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. http://thevirginiasafeproject.com/   http://jeffreysevans.com/

12:15         Local Men who were killed in action during World War II

Delegate Joe T. May is a Broadway native and engineer and inventor  who has served since 1994 in the Virginia General Assembly. He will share his research in the service history of several men with Brocks Gap connections who gave their lives for their country in Europe during World War II. http://www.joetmay.com/home/

1:00          Russel F. “Frankie” Whetzel, KIA

Nancy May Hoover is a Broadway native and a retired director of the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative and was chair of the regional association of the Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives and was president of the Broadway-Timberville Chamber of Commerce. The subject of her program, Russel F. Whetzel, was a Bergton native and was killed in action during World War II.

2:00          Antique Textile Expressions in Contemporary Language

                Priscilla Blosser-Rainey and Vicki Hottle Mongold.

Both women are Rockingham County natives with ties to Brocks Gap and they share a strong interest in antique textiles and crafts. They will display some of their textile collections and discuss how many of our modern-day expressions, like “dyed in the wool” and “black sheep of the family” came into being. 

Bring your old letters, deeds, old photos, old family Bibles, etc. to be copied for future books. Covers all areas of Brocks Gap—Runions Creek, Genoa, Fulks Run, Bergton, Criders, Dry River, Yankeetown, Palos, and Hoover.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by Pat Turner Ritchie, 540 662-1475 or patritchie@verizon.net
and Garnett & Lena Albrite Turner