Bill, I was doing some research for a lady on Musselwhite and ran across this, it may be what you are looking for.

Thomas A. Musselwhite
The history of the Musselwhite family has been difficult to trace because of the different spelling of the name. Some members of this family have used the off spellings of White, M'White, and Musclewhite in the signing of their names.
Holme's Directory of the Ancestral Head of New England's Families 1620-1700 states that "John Musslewhite came from Lanford, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1653, a freeman at Ipswick, Mass. in 1639."
There is a legend that says a Mr. Mussel and a Miss LeWhite got married and both wanted to retain their surnames. So they combined the two to come up with Musselwhite.
Records show that Thomas Musslewhite, born before 1718, married Mary______ in 1745 in N.C. In his will dated September 14, 1779, he listed his widow and 14 children(5 boys and 9 girls) as his heirs. Those five sons are: Jesse, Thomas, Milbea, Nathan, and Alexander fought in the American Revolutionary War.
One of those sons(not yet established) had a son named Thomas A. Musselwhite, born in N.C. in 1793 and came to Dooly County,GA where he married Mary Alice Brown on August 12, 1820. She was born in 1789 in the Dooly County area. From this union came nine children: Richard, Robin, Thomas, James, Uriah, Mary Sanford, Susana, John T. and William H. The sons fought in the Civil War Uriah was killed in the war, and John T. died of Typhoid fever while serving in the army in VA. Thomas A., the father was too old to go to war so the Govoner of GA. appointed him to check on the welfair of the women and children whose men had gone to war. Thomas owned several hundred acres of land in the now Crisp County area where he was a farmer by trade.
This history refers mainly to Thomas and Uriah and their descendants.

There are two pages of their history if you are interested let me know and I will mail it to you.
This article came from the Crisp County History Book.
I do my look-ups mostly in Wilcox and Crisp counties. But both libraries have all the surrounding counties material in them.

Debbie Brady