The Henry Gray Turner House in Quitman, Georgia is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[3] During the American Civil War, Turner enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army and eventually rose to the rank of captain.

Turner died the next year in Raleigh, North Carolina and was buried in West End Cemetery in Quitman.

"In the late 1970s," the book jacket reads, "Henry Turner went from being a local hero and star pitcher of the Georgia Tech Wildcats to an abusive, alcoholic drifter.

After spending his later years in homeless encampments and psych wards, Turner turned his demons to his advantage and became a kind, beloved street story-teller, a friend of the down-and-out, and a public transit angel."