Family legend says that BK once owned a flour mill in Kentucky that was destroyed by fire. He relocated his family to Jonesboro, Ark., in the summer of 1897. An African-American employee escorted their possessions in a railcar, but he was discovered and ejected in Memphis for violating company policy, and the Turner family possessions went on without him. Without food or funds, the loyal employee walked to Jonesboro to complete the job assigned to him. He later became a preacher and returned to Corydon. The family built their new home at 315 E Nettleton Ave, in Jonesboro.
 

BK was a business man of some repute: He established the first sawmill in Craighead county at Black Oak, and another in Jonesboro; he owned a large farm or ranch in Black Oak (his daughter Minnie Belle talked of how the cattle froze in place one winter); and went into partnership with W L Jeter, and created a hardware and mill supply store called Jeter, Turner & Company. A newspaper article published in the Jonesboro Enterprise in April of 1903 wrote that the company carried $10,000 in stock, that T. A. Turner, BK's son was part of the firm, and that a J. P. Hopkins worked there as a salesman, too.
 

BK and Lucy Ellen's son, Thomas Arthur, became a prominent attorney in Jonesboro, and later became the youngest Arkansas State Senator ever in 1908, serving two more terms in 1909 and 1911. 'Arthur' did extensive (and unsuccessful) research on the Hopkins line in an attempt to prove a connection to the famous Mark Hopkins fortune.