"Sunday morning, July 5, 1891, forty convicts were delivered to the mine, and were put to work immediately at tearing down the building the miners had formerly lived in, and erecting a stockade, which was afterwards called Joe Turney Branch Prison." -- _Annual Report, Vol. 2_, by Tennessee Commissioner Of Labor and Inspector Of Mines, 1893.

So "Joe Turney" wasn't just the name of a man, it was the name of a prison.

At the time of his death in 1912, Joseph Woodson Turney was working for an insurance company.