Friday, April 20, 2018

John and the Giant Persimmon

An unusually large persimmon grown on the premises of John F. McNelia, on State street, is on exhibit here.  It measures ten and one-half inches in circumference and weights ten and one-half ounces.

Above from the News Journal 23 Oct 1916

John Franklin McNelia was born in Georgetown in 1868.  He was a railroad engineer and lived in Delmar and Crisfield.  He married Barbara Ellen Beauchamp (1883-1976) in 1902 after his first wife Florence had passed away in 1900.    He would pass away in 1956.

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