Willis Edgar Musgrove: Big Turnip

Waycross Journal-Herald

December 18, 1971

Big Turnip -- Willis Edgar Musgrove grew a seven and half-pound turnip in his backyard at 1817 Lamont Street in Waycross. Musgrove said it is the first turnip of such a size as he has ever grown in his 10-foot square garden. 

George Leonard Merritt and Lydia Stewart

Our grandfather was Willis Edgar Musgrove, born September 9, 1909, in Schlatterville, Pierce County, Georgia. He married our grandmother, Carrie Mae Merritt, on June 13, 1929, in Bickley, Ware County, Georgia. She was born there on April 1, 1910, to George Henry Merritt and Mary Jane Williams.

Willis Edgar and Carrie Mae
(Merritt) Musgrove

Family Foto Friday: Edward Columbus Musgrove

Edward Columbus and

Macy Carole (Williams) Musgrove

My great-grandmother was born on Christmas day in 1889. She married my great-grandfather when she was thirteen years old.

Marriage: Willis Edgar Musgrove & Carrie Mae Merritt

On June 13th, 1929, our grandparents - grandpa Willis Edgar and grandma Carrie (known by) Mae (Merritt) Musgrove - married. They rode to the chapel on a horse-drawn wagon.

Grandpa Musgrove and the two oldest boys in the carriage

Family Foto Friday: Willis Edgar Musgrove

PHOTOS OF OUR FAMILY

My Musgrove grandparents, aunt, and uncles

From left to right: 

Riding in Style: Willis Edgar Musgrove

In 1909, when our grandfather* (see relationship note below) Willis Edgar Musgrove was born, eight businessmen formed the Hudson Motor Company. Their goal was to produce an automobile that would sell for less than $1,000, equivalent to approximately $26,248 in today's funds. Our granddad never owned one.

My grandfather and his oldest
children on the family wagon.