Do you know where Lem Turner is? Not the road, the Jacksonville pioneer....

I found Lem Turner.  No joke.

A major highway in Jacksonville Florida, State Road 115, is known as Lem Turner Road as it runs from I-95 exit 356 all the way to the Duval-Nassau County Line (115 continues all the way to Callahan). 

Lem Turner Road is a multi-lane divided highway for most of it's length.  But who is this Lem Turner?

It is named after Lemuel Turner, who lived from 1820 to about owned most of the property on the north side of Trout River from Kings Road (Today US 1) to the Holly Ford community across from what would later become Imeson Airport.  He and his sons cut the timber and sold it to the Broward Sawmill on the Seaboard Railroad tracks, today at the corner of Dunn Avenue (Turner's logging road back then) and US 17 (North Main Street)  This is the present location of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.
 
Turner's children and grandchildren continued logging, and in the early 1900's sold the timber to the Cummer Sawmill at the corner of US 17 and Heckscher Drive, near the Jacksonville Zoo, (today the location of Pick-A-Part junkyard).  Yes, the Cummer Sawmill was owned and operated by the same Cummer who endowed the Cummer Art Gallery when he finally sold it.  Turner's kids and grandkids sold their property bit by bit over the years, but Turner's original 1840's homestead stood on the banks of Blockhouse Creek until my teenage years, I used to see it from my schoolbus every morning.  The dirt road leading to it (from Lem Turner Road, just across and south of Bessent Road) is still there, but I believe the house may be gone.

 I found Lemuel Turner's grave 2 weeks ago, in the overgrown and unkept Turner-Picket cemetery.  To reach it, take Lem Turner Road north from I-95 at Norwood Avenue, go 2 blocks to Ida Street, turn right onto Ida, go 1 block to Calvin Street,  turn right, and Calvin Street ends at the cemetery.  It looks like an overgrown vacant lot, but if you walk from the torn-down gate diagonally to your left, about 50 feet in you find Lem Turner's grave stone, broken, and lying on the ground.  There are numerous other graves dating from the 1800's, all the way up to 1977.  I'm wondering if Craig Zipperer​ has done any genealogy and knows whether this Mildred Zipperer is any relation?