Turner, John

SCOTCH BLOCK
This community lost last Friday one of the last of the early settlers of the Scotch Block in the person of John Turner. Mr. Turner was ill only a few days, death resulting from heart failure and a general breaking up of the system. He had reached the good old age of eighty years.
Mr. Turner was from his early boyhood days a resident of Esquesing. He was born in Toronto and came to lot 12, con. 3, when but a lad with his parents. His father died on the farm where he himself lived for so many years. Mrs. Turner pre-deceased him a number of years ago. Two sons and two daughers survive. Nathan and Maggie on the hoemstead, Malcolm E. on the adjoining farm and a daughter, Mrs. Hugh Fraser at Boissevain, Man. Deceased was a highly esteemed resident of this section. He was from his boyhood a member of Boston Presbyterian Church, was a member of the Building Committee and for years on the Board of Managers. He was the first postmaster of Scotch Block. In politics Mr. Turner was a well known Liberal.
The funeral on Monday was held to Evergreen Cemetery, Milton and was largely attended.