Son of Isaac Turley and Sarah Greenwood

Married Mary Agnes Flake, 1 Nov 1882, St. George, Washington, Utah

Children - James Theodore Turley, Pearl Turley, Sarah Turley, Lucy Turley, Ormus Flake Turley, Lowell Barr Turley, Frederick Andrew Turley, Roberta Turley, son Turley, Harvey Isaac Turley, Harry William Turley

Married Sarah Ann Salina Smithson, 31 May 1911, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

History - Theodore Wilford Turley was born in Minersville, Utah 17 August 1863. He lived in Utah until he was fourteen when he came to Arizona with his parents.

On one trip to Arizona Theodore met Mary Agnes Flake. Mary made several trips between Utah and Arizona with her Father. On one trip the man her father had hired to drive one of the wagons and team of horses refused to drive down the mountain called Lee’s Back Bone because it was so dangerous. Mary said she would drive. So she started down the hill. They tied the back wheels of the wagon so they couldn’t turn and the wagon would not go so fast. When they were about halfway down the hill her father heard her scream. Looking back he saw that she had fallen from the wagon seat. But she caught the brake handle and told him to go on she could climb back up.

Theodore and Mary were married in St George Temple, 1 November 1882. Theodore worked blacksmithing, farming, freighting, storekeeping, and any honest labor that would bring in a living. He and Mary were always willing to share with others and helped raise his brothers and two of Mary’s brothers. In 1896 he was called on a mission to the Southern States. He traveled without a purse or script. In the ten months, he was gone he spent $0.75 but he often went hungry and had to sleep on the wet ground with only an umbrella to cover him. He became ill with chills and fever and had to return home. On the way home, he got off the train to get a drink of water. When he went to get back on the train he could not find his ticket so the train went on without him. He got a room at a hotel so he could rest and while there he put his hand in his pocket and found his ticket. The train that went on without him was wrecked after it left and he felt that the Lord had taken this way to take care of him.

When he left for his mission he left the family in bed with measles. Although he didn’t know it Mary used the last flour to make his bread the morning he left. The family didn’t have flour for six weeks except some that Mary got from her mother for the baby. Mary worked hard and by the time Theodore returned from his mission she had the foundation for two extra rooms on their house and had bought the bricks for the walk.

Theodore and Mary liked camping out and though they had to work hard for a living they always took time off for a camping trip with their family. They homesteaded at Aripine, living there in the summer and Snowflake in the winter. They had ten children. Mary died on 19 December 1909. Her daughter Lucy took care of the family for the next few years.

Mary and Theodore both worked in the Church holding many different positions. At the time of Theodore’s death, 15 Nov 1930, he was the Mayor of Snowflake.