Boy Accidentally Shot in SC Dies
William Jennings Turner, 14, Brought to Hospital Here
William Jennings Turner, 14, died at University Hospital last night while surgeons battled to save his life following a reported accidental shooting in which the full load of a shotgun shell entered the boy's abdomen. He was the son of Z A Turner and the late Mrs Mattie Lee Johnson Turner of Route 3, North Augusta.
The shooting is said to have occurred near the Phinizy plantation about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon while some children were playing with the shotgun. The boy died at 9:30 pm after he had been rushed to the hospital here by J A Gaddy, a neighbor residing on Five Notch Road, North Augusta.
Besides the father, the boy is survived by three sisters, Mrs Clifton Bates, Belvedere; Mrs L S Shull, Augusta, and Mrs E C Thomas, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts; two brothers, Emmett Turner, US Army, now enroute home from Germany, and Charles Turner, US Army, Missouri; the paternal grandmother, Mrs Mary Turner, Augusta; the maternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs Charles M Johnson [Emma Matthews Johnson], Warrenville; a number of uncles and aunts and three nephews.
Saturday, June 9, 1945 Paper: Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia) Section: A Page: 2
William Jennings Turner, 14, Brought to Hospital Here
William Jennings Turner, 14, died at University Hospital last night while surgeons battled to save his life following a reported accidental shooting in which the full load of a shotgun shell entered the boy's abdomen. He was the son of Z A Turner and the late Mrs Mattie Lee Johnson Turner of Route 3, North Augusta.
The shooting is said to have occurred near the Phinizy plantation about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon while some children were playing with the shotgun. The boy died at 9:30 pm after he had been rushed to the hospital here by J A Gaddy, a neighbor residing on Five Notch Road, North Augusta.
Besides the father, the boy is survived by three sisters, Mrs Clifton Bates, Belvedere; Mrs L S Shull, Augusta, and Mrs E C Thomas, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts; two brothers, Emmett Turner, US Army, now enroute home from Germany, and Charles Turner, US Army, Missouri; the paternal grandmother, Mrs Mary Turner, Augusta; the maternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs Charles M Johnson [Emma Matthews Johnson], Warrenville; a number of uncles and aunts and three nephews.
Saturday, June 9, 1945 Paper: Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia) Section: A Page: 2
Boy Accidentally Shot in SC Dies
William Jennings Turner, 14, Brought to Hospital Here
William Jennings Turner, 14, died at University Hospital last night while surgeons battled to save his life following a reported accidental shooting in which the full load of a shotgun shell entered the boy's abdomen. He was the son of Z A Turner and the late Mrs Mattie Lee Johnson Turner of Route 3, North Augusta.
The shooting is said to have occurred near the Phinizy plantation about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon while some children were playing with the shotgun. The boy died at 9:30 pm after he had been rushed to the hospital here by J A Gaddy, a neighbor residing on Five Notch Road, North Augusta.
Besides the father, the boy is survived by three sisters, Mrs Clifton Bates, Belvedere; Mrs L S Shull, Augusta, and Mrs E C Thomas, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts; two brothers, Emmett Turner, US Army, now enroute home from Germany, and Charles Turner, US Army, Missouri; the paternal grandmother, Mrs Mary Turner, Augusta; the maternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs Charles M Johnson [Emma Matthews Johnson], Warrenville; a number of uncles and aunts and three nephews.
Saturday, June 9, 1945 Paper: Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia) Section: A Page: 2
William Jennings Turner, 14, Brought to Hospital Here
William Jennings Turner, 14, died at University Hospital last night while surgeons battled to save his life following a reported accidental shooting in which the full load of a shotgun shell entered the boy's abdomen. He was the son of Z A Turner and the late Mrs Mattie Lee Johnson Turner of Route 3, North Augusta.
The shooting is said to have occurred near the Phinizy plantation about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon while some children were playing with the shotgun. The boy died at 9:30 pm after he had been rushed to the hospital here by J A Gaddy, a neighbor residing on Five Notch Road, North Augusta.
Besides the father, the boy is survived by three sisters, Mrs Clifton Bates, Belvedere; Mrs L S Shull, Augusta, and Mrs E C Thomas, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts; two brothers, Emmett Turner, US Army, now enroute home from Germany, and Charles Turner, US Army, Missouri; the paternal grandmother, Mrs Mary Turner, Augusta; the maternal grandparents, Mr and Mrs Charles M Johnson [Emma Matthews Johnson], Warrenville; a number of uncles and aunts and three nephews.
Saturday, June 9, 1945 Paper: Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia) Section: A Page: 2
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