As Grandma Turner aged and her heart weakened, her doctor recommended that she take a drink of whiskey every day. She kept a bottle of Four Roses on a stand by her bed. No one knew "How Many" sips she took each day. She had a dirt filled coffee can on the floor by her bed, which she used as a spittoon.

Grandma Turner loved Garret Snuff. It was Adron’s job to go down by the windmill, at the bluff north of the house, and dig up “hackberry roots” to make a “tooth brush,” as she called it, to facilitate her snuff dipping. She liked to dip the root into the snuff and then place it in her mouth. Adrienne said that a relative told her a story about Grandma Turner’s snuff dipping; the relative said that every page of her bible had a snuff stain on it, as a result of her licking her fingers before she turned the pages.