CrossRoads Access, Inc. Corinth History

INTRODUCTION

How did I get started on this project? In my mind it goes back to my high school friend Mack Whitaker's stories of his "Uncle Roscoe". What is amazing to me is that the amazing stories which we took with a grain of salt back in the days of our youth are now I find, upon investigation, mostly true. [Note 1 below]

To the world he became Col. Roscoe Turner, but to Corinthians he was always "Roscoe". Turner Hill was then and remains today the site of Roscoe's childhood and the roots to which any real understanding of the man has to be traced.

Milton Sandy, Jr.


 ROSCOE TURNER PAPERS, University of Wyoming
 CRAWFORD AUTO-AVIATION MUSEUM
 HEARST Newsreels
 INDIANA STATE LIBRARY 
 MOVIETONE Outakes, University of South Carolina
 MOVIETONE Newsreels, 20th Century Fox
 NATIONAL AIR and SPACE MUSEUM, Smithsonian.(Artifacts)
 NATIONAL AIR and SPACE MUSEUM, Smithsonian.(Film)
 NATIONAL Headquarters, AMERICAN LEGION
 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
 PATHE Newsreels, Sherman Grinberg
 UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS, National Archives
 VIRGINIA AVIATION MUSEUM, Sandston, VA
 MODEL AIRPLANE KITS
 SOUTHERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
 THE GREAT AIR RACE  
   
    Note 1:  Cecil McCarley Whitaker, Jr. (Mack), born 8/24/1943, passed
           away on 4/14/1994.  He was a member of the Corinth High School
           Class of 1961.  He would have really enjoyed the party on
           Roscoe's 100th birthday.


  Roscoe's parents are buried at Henry Cemetery, Corinth, MS

  Mary Aquilla Derryberry Turner (Mother) Jan 20, 1877- May 28, 1948
  Robert Lee Turner (Father)              Jan  5, 1872- April 18, 1966

  Cass B. Turner (Brother)                Jan 28, 1904- Mar 26, 1954

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