"History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.'s, Indiana" Goodspeed 
Bros. and Co., 1884 


WILLIAM TURLEY, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of 
Indiana, was born in Lawrence County March 14, 1835, and is a son of 
BENJAMIN and PARMELIA (WRIGHT) TURLEY, who were parents of 
the children named: JONATHAN, JASPER, SARAH, NEWTON, 
WILLIAM, JULIA, BENJAMIN, LOUISA, JANE, ELIZABETH, MARY 
and AARON. These parents were natives of Virginia, and immigrated to 
Lawrence County, Ind., in 1818. Here William Turley lived with his parents 
until of age, receiving a good common school education. MISS ELIZA M. 
HALL, daughter of ROBERT and ELIZABETH (TOLIVER) HALL, 
became his wife September 17, 1857, and to them seven children have been 
born, named: EMMA, CHARLEY, JOHN, LIZZIE, HENRY, NELLIE G. 
and ROSA BLANCHE. Mr. Turley has passed the greater part of his life 
engaged in merchandising and farming, the former occupation engaging his 
attention at Rivervale for about seventeen years. At present he resides on his 
farm which consists of 640 acres of land. The Ohio & Mississippi Railroad 
Company have leased an extensive quarry owned by Mr. Turley on this 
place, and establishing a "crusher," annually remove about 2,000 car loads 
of stone. In 1864 he became a member of Company B, Forty-second Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being discharged 
June 24, 1865. In politics Mr. Turley is a Republican and belongs to the 
Masonic fraternity; he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 


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