My grandfather was the son of Rev. Joseph B. Muse and the former Nina Essie Devlin. Joseph was the brother of Lois Atlanta Muse Kerr, Annie Coral Muse Lyon (1876-1955), Janie Blanche Muse Smith, Minnie M. Muse, Robert Lowry Muse, Mary Devlin Muse Elvington, and Sarah Eunice Muse Kibler.
Growing up in the Verdery, South Carolina area, life was an adventure on his parent's farm. Being from a long line of Scottish Presbyterian ministers; his education was extensive both in history and religion. After grade school granddad attended Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson was an all-male military school and educational institution that taught scientific agriculture and mechanical arts. But life at Clemson was not to granddad's liking. He told his mother that the boys had no manners and they just wanted to 'rough house'. So, granddad came back to Verdery and farmed until he got a job on the railroad as a mail clerk.
For the first few years, he worked on what was known as the Augusta and Spartanburg Short Line. This railroad connected the interior of South Carolina with the established cities of Augusta, GA & Knoxville, TN and railroad lines beyond. It also connected Augusta with Greenwood, SC; where his sister, Janie, lived. Later he moved to Charlotte (NC) and traveled the Southern Railroad route of Charlotte to Augusta.
My grandfather married Ruth Isabelle Service on October 29th 1919 in Gaffney, South Carolina. They meet while she was visiting a friend at Lander College in Greenwood – just across from his sister's home. Soon after the wedding they moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. There they started a family which included Joseph P. Muse, Jr. (1923-2005), Marguerite Isabelle Powell (1926-2016 ) and Mary Eunice Gaston (1928-2021 ), my mother. In 1934, as my mother enter the 1st grade, granddaddy moved the family to Charlotte where he saw his children grow, the depression unfold and the world go to war in Europe and the Pacific. He lived to see Ike in the White House and LBJ's Great Society for social reform.
Life was good and Granddaddy Muse changed with the times, making each day count. He had a saying that I use to this day – "This too will pass." I think that is what helped him live to the ripe old age of 80 - departing this life on April 7th 1968 in Augusta, Georgia. He was laid to rest beside his beloved wife, Ruth in Westover cemetery.
Growing up in the Verdery, South Carolina area, life was an adventure on his parent's farm. Being from a long line of Scottish Presbyterian ministers; his education was extensive both in history and religion. After grade school granddad attended Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson was an all-male military school and educational institution that taught scientific agriculture and mechanical arts. But life at Clemson was not to granddad's liking. He told his mother that the boys had no manners and they just wanted to 'rough house'. So, granddad came back to Verdery and farmed until he got a job on the railroad as a mail clerk.
For the first few years, he worked on what was known as the Augusta and Spartanburg Short Line. This railroad connected the interior of South Carolina with the established cities of Augusta, GA & Knoxville, TN and railroad lines beyond. It also connected Augusta with Greenwood, SC; where his sister, Janie, lived. Later he moved to Charlotte (NC) and traveled the Southern Railroad route of Charlotte to Augusta.
My grandfather married Ruth Isabelle Service on October 29th 1919 in Gaffney, South Carolina. They meet while she was visiting a friend at Lander College in Greenwood – just across from his sister's home. Soon after the wedding they moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. There they started a family which included Joseph P. Muse, Jr. (1923-2005), Marguerite Isabelle Powell (1926-2016 ) and Mary Eunice Gaston (1928-2021 ), my mother. In 1934, as my mother enter the 1st grade, granddaddy moved the family to Charlotte where he saw his children grow, the depression unfold and the world go to war in Europe and the Pacific. He lived to see Ike in the White House and LBJ's Great Society for social reform.
Life was good and Granddaddy Muse changed with the times, making each day count. He had a saying that I use to this day – "This too will pass." I think that is what helped him live to the ripe old age of 80 - departing this life on April 7th 1968 in Augusta, Georgia. He was laid to rest beside his beloved wife, Ruth in Westover cemetery.
My grandfather was the son of Rev. Joseph B. Muse and the former Nina Essie Devlin. Joseph was the brother of Lois Atlanta Muse Kerr, Annie Coral Muse Lyon (1876-1955), Janie Blanche Muse Smith, Minnie M. Muse, Robert Lowry Muse, Mary Devlin Muse Elvington, and Sarah Eunice Muse Kibler.
Growing up in the Verdery, South Carolina area, life was an adventure on his parent's farm. Being from a long line of Scottish Presbyterian ministers; his education was extensive both in history and religion. After grade school granddad attended Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson was an all-male military school and educational institution that taught scientific agriculture and mechanical arts. But life at Clemson was not to granddad's liking. He told his mother that the boys had no manners and they just wanted to 'rough house'. So, granddad came back to Verdery and farmed until he got a job on the railroad as a mail clerk.
For the first few years, he worked on what was known as the Augusta and Spartanburg Short Line. This railroad connected the interior of South Carolina with the established cities of Augusta, GA & Knoxville, TN and railroad lines beyond. It also connected Augusta with Greenwood, SC; where his sister, Janie, lived. Later he moved to Charlotte (NC) and traveled the Southern Railroad route of Charlotte to Augusta.
My grandfather married Ruth Isabelle Service on October 29th 1919 in Gaffney, South Carolina. They meet while she was visiting a friend at Lander College in Greenwood – just across from his sister's home. Soon after the wedding they moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. There they started a family which included Joseph P. Muse, Jr. (1923-2005), Marguerite Isabelle Powell (1926-2016 ) and Mary Eunice Gaston (1928-2021 ), my mother. In 1934, as my mother enter the 1st grade, granddaddy moved the family to Charlotte where he saw his children grow, the depression unfold and the world go to war in Europe and the Pacific. He lived to see Ike in the White House and LBJ's Great Society for social reform.
Life was good and Granddaddy Muse changed with the times, making each day count. He had a saying that I use to this day – "This too will pass." I think that is what helped him live to the ripe old age of 80 - departing this life on April 7th 1968 in Augusta, Georgia. He was laid to rest beside his beloved wife, Ruth in Westover cemetery.
Growing up in the Verdery, South Carolina area, life was an adventure on his parent's farm. Being from a long line of Scottish Presbyterian ministers; his education was extensive both in history and religion. After grade school granddad attended Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina. Clemson was an all-male military school and educational institution that taught scientific agriculture and mechanical arts. But life at Clemson was not to granddad's liking. He told his mother that the boys had no manners and they just wanted to 'rough house'. So, granddad came back to Verdery and farmed until he got a job on the railroad as a mail clerk.
For the first few years, he worked on what was known as the Augusta and Spartanburg Short Line. This railroad connected the interior of South Carolina with the established cities of Augusta, GA & Knoxville, TN and railroad lines beyond. It also connected Augusta with Greenwood, SC; where his sister, Janie, lived. Later he moved to Charlotte (NC) and traveled the Southern Railroad route of Charlotte to Augusta.
My grandfather married Ruth Isabelle Service on October 29th 1919 in Gaffney, South Carolina. They meet while she was visiting a friend at Lander College in Greenwood – just across from his sister's home. Soon after the wedding they moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. There they started a family which included Joseph P. Muse, Jr. (1923-2005), Marguerite Isabelle Powell (1926-2016 ) and Mary Eunice Gaston (1928-2021 ), my mother. In 1934, as my mother enter the 1st grade, granddaddy moved the family to Charlotte where he saw his children grow, the depression unfold and the world go to war in Europe and the Pacific. He lived to see Ike in the White House and LBJ's Great Society for social reform.
Life was good and Granddaddy Muse changed with the times, making each day count. He had a saying that I use to this day – "This too will pass." I think that is what helped him live to the ripe old age of 80 - departing this life on April 7th 1968 in Augusta, Georgia. He was laid to rest beside his beloved wife, Ruth in Westover cemetery.
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