Two tickets from Georgia and New Jersey shared what was then the largest jackpot in U.S. history. The winners were a Cape May County, New Jersey couple, Elaine and Harold “Barry” Messner, and a truck driver from northwest Georgia, Eddie Nabors of Rocky Face, about 90 miles north of Atlanta. Nabors took the lump sum payout of $116.4 million for his share of the $390 million Mega Millions prize.