Hi Miss Virginia :-) It's been some time since you and I corresponded. We moved from Valdosta to Columbia, SC last October and I'm just now getting back on all the different mailing lists. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Downing Musgrove instrumental in bringing telephone service to Homerville? I tried to call my mother tonight but couldn't reach her; I knew she'd remember alot of this. Here goes. I remember being a very young child and my parents and I lived with my paternal grandparents, Ivey and Alma Evans, in a house owned by Downing Musgrove on Thelma Highway (don't think it's still called Thelma Hwy). Mama was a nurse working for Dr. Robbins and Daddy and Grandaddy both worked for the telephone company. I've always been told this is why they were living in this particular house because Mr. Downing owned the telephone company and the house. We lived in that house from the time I was born until I was 3 years old but I vividly remember all the rooms in it :-) I also remember my grandmother dressing up like a man and sitting outside under the street light on a bench; this was to prove something to my cousin Ann Kaney and me. We'd probably been mischevious that day and she wanted to scare us :-) I also remember one night the circus had been in Waycross and Ann and I wanted to go badly but I guess we didn't have the funds to go, so her dad went outside and scratched on the windows, making all kinds of growling noises and Daddy told us that the tigers had gotten loose and they'd closed down the circus! Imagine...I can remember that :-) I do remember a family of Musgroves living either next door or two houses down from us. They had two teenage daughters but I can't remember their names right now (they might be Lyneath and Julie that you spoke of). The main reason I remember these girls is that they had a horse and we have a photo of me sitting on this huge horse when I was about 2 1/2 years old :-) They were really sweet girls; I can remember them coming over and playing from time to time. Granny would fill the washtub with water and that was my 'swimming pool' and those two girls would come over and get the biggest kick out of watching me 'swim' in my big pool :-) You have to remember this was in the early 1950's :-) You know that the road from Brunswick out to Jekyll Island is now the Downing Musgrove Highway. Someone said something about William Vernie Musgrove being in the turpentine business. It comes to mind that Uncle Walter Musgrove, son of Charles H and Jule Musgrove, was also in the turpentine business. I just remember seeing alot of trucks at his and Aunt Eula's house there in Homerville. Nice to talk with you again. If you can add further to any of this, I'd be most appreciative. Regards, Nancy E Parr -----Original Message----- From: To: GACLINCH-L@rootsweb.com <GACLINCH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 04, 2001 10:03 PM Subject: Re: Musgrove << MUSGROVE, William Vernie b. Nov 15, 1880 s/o of C.H. (a native of Baker Co. d. Mar 23, 1915.)and Julie Musgrove. m. 1900 Alice O'Steen d/o of Jonathan.>> Wasn't Vernie Musgrove father of Downing Musgrove of Homerville? I knew Mr. Downing and his wife Lyneath as well as their daughters, the eldest also named Lyneath, and I believe her younger sister was Julie. Mr. Downing Musgrove was a very well respected prominent citizen of Homerville, a fine attorney and very active in civic life there. V. Adams