John David Musgrove & Eliza Cox

The Atlanta Constitution

March 31, 1894

SHE TOOK STRYCHNINE

Mrs. Musgrove Was an Invalid & Despondent

The Atlanta Constitution
March 31, 1894

Great-aunt Louise (Musgrove) Tillman* (see relationship notes below) says her grandmother, Elizabeth Arissa 'Betty' (Collins) Musgrove, got sick from a spider bite. According to the paper,

She said she wanted to die, and that death would be a relief. Mrs. Musgrove had been an invalid for eighteen months. She complained of being in the way and said she had no hopes of recovering (Find-a-Grave link here).

Aliff (Butler) Collins: Woman Scorned

"John F. Collins and Adelph Butler (Ed. note: should be Dixon) were the parents of Elizabeth Collins." 

American Family Musgrove - Richard Graham Musgrove -  page 734

Musgrove family historian, Richard Graham Musgrove, mis-spelled our third great grandmother's* (see relationship notes below) name in his book, The American Family Musgrove.

David and Betty (Collins) Musgrove

At Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Waycross are three simple grave markers. They read Father David Musgrove, Mother Betty Musgrove, and Daughter Molly Musgrove. 

They are our second great grandparents*,  John (known as) David, Elizabeth Arissa (known as Betty Collins) and their oldest daughter, our great grand aunt, Mary Ann Savannah (known as Molly) Musgrove.

John David Musgrove