Mrs. Marcum and Captain Turner Wed

Hazard Herald - February 3, 1916

Mrs. Abrelia Hurst Marcum, widow of Attorney James B. Marcum, who was assassinated at the courthouse door in Jackson, on May 4, 1903, and whose death led to the stoppage of the famous Breathitt County feuds, was married in Cincinnati last week to Captain Jefferson Turner, a wealthy plumbing contractor, formerly of Harrodsburg, but now a resident of Jackson. Mrs. Marcum is 46 and Captain Turner is 50 years old. The news of the marriage will be of wide interest throughout central and eastern Kentucky, where the principals are well-known.

Mrs. Turner is a daughter of the late Daniel D. Hurst, of Jackson, and spent practically all of her life in Jackson. She was married to the late James B. Marcum in 1886, and six children were born to that union, five of whom are now living. This is the second marriage of both principals.

Curtis Jett and Tom White are now serving life sentences in the penitentiary, charged with complicity in Mr. Marcum's murder.

Mrs. Marcum spent practically all the family fortune in the prosecution of Jett and White, and worked hard for several years to raise her children, being a clerk in the post office for a number of years at Jackson.