Eber Carlisle Turley

During the Civil War EBER C. TURLEY served as a private in company C, 3rd Missouri Cavalry. He appeared on the roll of prisoners of war of a detachment of troops of the Confederate States Army who surrendered at New Orleans, LA., 26 May 1865 (he would have been 22 years old)and paroled at Alexandria, LA. 11 Sep 1865.

Eber C. Turley was appointed postmaster at Summit, Mo., 19 Jan 1887 and served until 1889. He had a mercantile business and General Store and "mineral."

Lived in St. Louis from 1891-1897 where he owned a hotel until it burned, then moved to Bonne Terre in 1897 and died in 1916.