Dates
|
|
Source
|
23
Jan.1811
|
Birth:
Kent
Co.,
Maryland,
perhaps
in
Chestertown,
perhaps
at
Massey's
Crossroads.
|
1; 9; 8; 5
|
17
Dec.1879
|
Death:
St..
Louis,
Missouri.;
buried
in
the
family
lot,
Maple Park Cemetery,
Jefferson City, Mo.
|
1; 9; 4
|
11
Jun.1839
|
Marriage:
Boonville,
Cooper
Co.,
Mo.;
Maria
Hawkins
Withers,
b.
Nov.1821,
Fauquier Co., Virginia, d. 25 Jul.1864, Boonville, Mo. She was
daughter of Daniel Withers, b.c.1775, Fauquier Co., Va., and Eliza
Jane Matilda Hawkins, b.c.1788.
|
3; 6; 9
4; 7; 30; 31
|
1828
|
At
age
17
he
was
thrown
upon
his
own
resources by the insolvency of his
father, 5.Benjamin Massey.
He went to Philadelphia and went to work as a store boy.
|
10; 21;7
|
c.1829
|
Kent
Co.,
Md.:
He
returned
to
his
home
area
and worked for a brother
in a country store.
|
7
|
Note
|
In
1843,
after
B.F.
Massey
had
migrated
to
Missouri,
he had business
contacts with his brother, 23.Ebenezer
Thomas
Massey. I believe that this was the brother B.F.
Massey clerked for, back in Maryland.[Ed.]
|
32
|
1831
|
Kent
Co.,
Md.:
23.Ebenezer Thomas
Massey paid 37.Elijah
Eleazer
Massey for boarding 6.Benjamin
Franklin
Massey.
|
|
21
Jul.1831
|
St.
Louis,
Mo.:
He
arrived
in
St.
Louis,
where
he was hired as a clerk by
George Collier, a Merchant Trader with headquarters in St. Louis.
|
4; 42
|
c.1833
|
St.
Louis:
He
left
George
Collier,
and
went
to
work for another
merchant-trader pair, Peter and Joseph Powell.
|
7; 42
|
1833
|
St.
Louis:
His
employers,
the
Powells,
put
B.F.
Massey
in charge of taking
a Wagon Train of goods to Santa Fe, Mexico. He led this wagon
train west over the Santa Fe Trail in the Spring, making the return
trip over the trail in the Fall.
|
11; 42
|
1834
|
St.
Louis,
Mo.:
for
the
second
time,
the
Powells
had B.F. Massey take a
wagon train of goods for them to Santa Fe. He travelled West over
the Trail in normal fashion. But, because of the early onset of
winter weather, he could not risk the return trip over the Trail.
He returned east on horseback and alone via El Paso and Mexico City to
Vera Cruz over an old Spanish trail. He then took a steamer to
New Orleans and then a boat up-river back to St. Louis.
|
11; 39; 42
|
1835
|
Kent
Co.,
Md.:
His
son
writes
that
B.F.
Massey
went back home for a visit,
but was stricken with the rheumatism that was to plague him all his
life and was confined to his bed for two years.
|
7
|
1837
|
Fayette,
Howard
Co.
Mo.:
He
returned
to
St.
Louis,
and his friends, the Powell
brothers, offered to set him up in business as a merchant trader, in a
place of his own choosing. He chose Fayette, a town about 20
miles North of Boonville, and there he embarked on his own
merchandising venture.
|
7; 4; 42
|
1837-1838
|
His
travels
as
a
merchant
trader
into
southwest
Missouri
took him toward
the site of the town of Sarcoxie. He met William Tingle, who had
already been trading in that area. They formed a merchant -
trader partnership; Tingle & Massey.
|
23; 44; 42
|
| 1837-1838 |
Boonville,
Cooper
Co.,
Mo.:
During
this
period
he
met
and courted Maria Hawkins
Withers on business trips to Boonville.
|
9
|
9
Sep.1838
|
Kent
Co.,
Md.:
23.Ebenezer Thomas
Massey started [William] Tingle, partner of 6.Benjamin Franklin
Massey,
on
his
way back to Missouri. He took with him slave Theodore.
|
|
20
Mar.1839
|
Kent
Co.,Md.:
23.Ebenezer Thomas
Massey sent $200.00 to his brother, 6.Benjamin Franklin Massey,
to
pay
for 160 acres of land to be entered in 23.E. T. M.'s name.
|
1
|
11
Jun.1839
|
Boonville,
Cooper
Co.,
Mo.:
Maria
Hawkins
Withers
became
his
wife. B.F. Massey is referred to
as "of Barry County," he had established
himself near the site of Sarcoxie, no doubt on the "Spring River
Valley" farm, where their daughter, Nina Massey says the she spent her
first ten years.
|
3; 9
|
4
Nov.1839
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
continued
to
operate
their merchandising
business; but now they entered into a real estate venture. The
first record of this real estate venture was the assignment to Ben. F.
Massey and William Tingle of a Land Entry made by Thacker Vivian, the
earliest homeowner in the area of the site of Sarcoxie.
|
33
|
1839-1840
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
engaged
in
a
number of Land Entry
operations and land trades.
|
33
|
10
Feb.1840
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
By
this
date,
Tingle
&
Massey
had become owners of the
mill that Thacker Vivian had built some time earlier.
|
33
|
18
Mar.1840
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
sold
a
70
acre tract immediately west of
Thacker Vivian's town of Centerville. They also started to sell
town lots in Centerville.
|
33
|
1840
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Census:
Benjamin
F.
Massey
is
listed
as Head of Family:
Persons
|
Age;
Occupation
|
Name
|
1
male
|
20-30;
farmer
|
B.F.
Massey
|
1
female
|
20-30
|
Maria
H.
Massey,
his
wife
|
1
female
|
15-20
|
[perhaps
Sarah
L.
Pierce]
|
1
female
|
under
5
|
Nina
Eleanor
Massey
|
|
13
|
6
Aug.1840
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
formally
acquired
the Centerville
town site from Thacker Vivian. They re-platted it, and re-named
it Sarcoxie, after a locally well-regarded Indian chief. They
continued to sell some of the 68 platted building lots.
|
33
|
6
Aug.1840
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
On
this
same
date,
Tingle
& Massey opened a
mercantile house in Sarcoxie.
|
23; 42
|
21
Nov.1840
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
sold
a
72 acre tract, just
northeast of Sarcoxie.
|
33; 46
|
1840-1842
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
continued
to
trade in real estate,
and to operate their Sarcoxie mercantile house.
|
|
1842
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Benj.
F.
Massey,
Democrat,
was
elected a Missouri
State Senator, and served in the Twelfth General Assembly.
|
4; 48; 49
|
2
Jul.1842
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Tingle
&
Massey
had
become
indebted
to the Powell
brothers for goods for their mercantile business in the amount of
$5,147.37. On this date Joseph and Peter Powell and Duncan Lamont
filed suit to recover this unpaid debt.
|
32; 42
|
18
May
1843
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
sold
at
auction,
his
two slaves Mary and her
infant daughter Harriett. Peter and Joseph Powell bought the two
slaves, and delegated to J. L. Hendrick, their attorney and agent, the
authority to loan the slaves to B.F. Massey, who still had them in his
possession.
|
41
|
24
Jun.1843
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
had
rented
slave
Theodore from his
brother, 23.E. T. Massey,
and had taken the slave from Maryland to Missouri. E.T. Massey
found it necessary to give Power of Attorney to Dr. Andrew Wilson, of
Sarcoxie, to collect from B.F. Massey the wages due him for the slave
still in B.F. Massey's possession.
|
32
|
28
Feb.1844
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
The
Newton
County
Circuit
Court
decided
the $5,147.37 lawsuit
in favor of the Powells, and instructed Isaac Gibson, Newton County
Sheriff, to auction four tracts of Tingle & Massey land, totalling
408 acres, to satisfy the debt. Peter and Joseph Powell were the
high bidders, paying a total $20.00 for their title.
|
32; 33
|
Note
|
This
Sheriff's
Auction
ended
the
Tingle
&
Massey
real
estate ventures
and forced the end of the Tingle & Massey mercantile venture.
|
|
1844
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Benj.
F.
Massey
was
again
elected
to the Missouri State
Senate, and served in the Thirteenth General Assembly.
|
49
|
18
Jan.1845
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Peter
and
Joseph
Powell
recorded
the
Deed to the four tracts
of land, totaling 408 acres, that they had bought at auction.
|
33
|
Note
|
I
have
not
attempted
to
trace
what
disposition
the
Powells made of this
acreage.
|
|
1845
|
Kent
Co.,
Md.:
23.Ebenezer Thomas
Massey travelled to Missouri to see his brother, 6.Benjamin
Franklin Massey;
found
him
very poor.
|
49
|
1845
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
was
a
member
of
the Missouri Constitutional
Convention.
|
4; 48
|
1845
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
was
elected
Chief
Clerk
of the Missouri House of
Representatives, and served during the 14th. Session of the General
Assembly.
|
4; 7; 48; 49
|
1848
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
was
elected
Chief
Clerk
for the second time, and
served during the 15th. General Assembly Session.
|
4; 7; 48; 49 |
1848
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Secretary
of
State
was
at
this
time an appointed office, and
Massey sought appointment by Governor Austin A. King. But a hitch
occurred, and the appointment went instead to E. B. Ewing, later a
Missouri Supreme Court Judge.
|
7; 48
|
1849
|
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
was
a
candidate
for
the Missouri State Senate,
but was defeated by Wm. Claude Jones.
|
7; 48
|
5
Feb.1849
|
Sarcoxie,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
The
Missouri
Legislature
passed
an
Act to legalize all
Sarcoxie town lot transactions made prior to the Act. By
coincidence, Ben. F. Massey, as clerk of the House of Representatives,
attested this Act.
|
33; 48
|
1850
|
Jasper
Co.,
Mo.:
Census:
Benjamin
F.
Massey
was
listed
as Head of Family:
Name
|
Age/Sex
|
Birthplace
|
Occupation/Real
Estate
|
Benjamin
F.
Massi[sic]
|
40/m.
|
Mo.
|
Farmer/$1,000
R.E.
|
Mariah
H.
Massie
|
29/f.
|
Va.
|
|
Eliz.
Ellenor
Massie
|
10/f.
|
Mo.
|
|
Ben
U.
Massie
|
8/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
Julian
P.
Massie
|
6/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
Clarence
R.
Massie
|
4.m
|
Mo.
|
|
Logan
S.
Massie
|
2/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
Frank
R.
Massie
|
5/12/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
Sarah
L.
Pierce
|
23/f.
|
Va.
|
|
|
12
|
Note
|
In
the
1850
Census
of
Boonville,
Cooper
Co.,
Mo.,
appear these listings:
Name
|
Age/Sex
|
Birthplace
|
Occupation
|
Peter
Pierce
|
56/m.
|
Va.
|
Hotel
Keeper
|
Sarah
D.
Pierce
|
21/f.
|
Va.
|
|
This Peter Pierce married Maria Withers Massey's widowed mother.
Circumstantially, the two Sarah Pierces, shown above, seem to be the
same person.
|
|
1850
|
Jasper
Co.,
Mo.:
The
1840
Census
and
the
1850
Census both record B. F. Massey
as "Farmer". Nina Massey Hough, B. F. Massey's eldest daughter
writes: "I lived on a farm until I was ten years old [1840 to 1850] on
what was called Spring River Valley, half way between Mt. Vernon and
Sarcoxie." This farm appears to have been B.F. Massey's actual
home site.
|
13; 12; 9; 47
|
2ndQ.1850
|
California:
His
son
relates:-
"He
did
not
prosper
financially,
went overland to
California."
|
7
|
2ndQ.1852
|
Sarcoxie,
Mo.:
His
son
continues:-
"He
remained
there
[in
California] a short
time, did not prosper there, was brought back via the Isthmus of
Panama, a helpless invalid from rheumatism.
|
7
|
1852
|
Sarcoxie,
Jasper
Co.,
Mo.:
In
a
1914
letter
to
Dr. J.F. Snyder, Benjamin U.
Massey writes:- "In 1852, while going from Sarcoxie to Boonville with
my father to buy goods, we stopped for a day at Bolivar [Polk Co., Mo.]
at the house of Mr. Israel W. Davis."
|
7
|
1854
|
Sarcoxie,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
ran
for
the
office
of Missouri State Senator, but was
defeated by Gen. James S. Rains, the "Know Nothing" candidate.
|
7; 48
|
Aug.1856
|
Sarcoxie,
Mo.:B.F.
Massey
ran
for,
and
was
elected
to, the office of Missouri
Secretary of State, on the Democratic ticket headed by Truston Polk, of
St. Louis; a four-year term.
|
7; 18; 27; 48
|
Oct.1856
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
Massey
was
inducted
into
office
as
Missouri's Secretary of
State, serving the first three months of his four-year term under Gen.
Sterling Price, then Missouri's governor.
|
7; 48
|
4
Mar.1857
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
During
this
part
of
his
term
as Secretary of State, he
served under Gov. Hancock Jackson, who had moved up from Lt. Gov. to
fill the post vacated by Gov. Polk, who had been elected to the U. S.
Senate. He served under Jackson until Robert M. Stewart was
elected Governor in 1857.
|
7; 16; 48
|
1857
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
Warwick
Hough
was
appointed
Chief
Clerk
to Secretary of
State, B.F. Massey.
|
21
|
1857
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
found
it
impossible
to
rent a house in
Jefferson City, and as no one was occupying the Governor's Mansion at
the moment, Governor Jackson offered it to B.F. Massey, who thereupon
moved in.
|
9
|
16
Jan.1858
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
This
is
the
date
of
the
earliest letter from Massey to Dr.
J.F. Snyder of the 56 that he wrote during the 1858-1861 period.
|
43
|
1860
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
Present,
among
many
others,
at
the
Democratic State
Convention, were B.F. Massey, G.W. Hough, and Proctor Knott, the
Attorney-General of Missouri. Later on, Proctor Knott and Warwick Hough
were Law Partners. Still later, Proctor Knott became Governor of
Kentucky.
|
19; 48
|
1860
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
On
the
Democratic
ticket
headed
by
Governor Claiborne F.
Jackson, B.F. Massey ran for, and was elected to serve, a second
four-term as Secretary of State of Missouri.
|
5; 7; 20; 27; 48
|
Jul.1860
|
Jefferson
City,
Cole
Co.,
Mo.:
Census:-
Benj.
F.
Massey
is listed as Head of
Family:
Name
|
Age/Sex
|
Birthplace
|
Occupation
|
Benj.
F.
Massey
|
49/m.
|
Md.
|
Secy.
of
State
zero
R.E.
$3,600P.P.
|
M.
H.
Massey
|
38/f.
|
Va.
|
|
Nina
E.
Massey
|
20/f.
|
Mo.
|
Domestic |
B.U.
Massey
|
18/m.
|
Mo.
|
Clerk |
J.P.
Massey
|
16/m.
|
Mo.
|
Student
|
C.R.
Massey
|
14/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
L.S.
Massey
|
12/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
F.R.
Massey
|
10/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
S.W.
Massey
|
8/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
Eliza
Massey
|
6/f.
|
Mo.
|
|
Mariah
Massey
|
4/f.
|
Mo.
|
|
Robt.
D.
Massey
|
2/m.
|
Mo.
|
|
|
24
|
21
May
1861
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
This
is
the
last
letter
from
B.F. Massey to Dr. Snyder of
the 56 that he wrote during the 1858-1861 period.
|
43
|
12
Jun.1861
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
performed
his
last
official
act as elected
Secretary of State; signing a Proclamation by Governor Jackson.
|
6
|
15
Jun.1861
|
Jefferson
City,
Mo.:
Union
troops,
under
command
of
Col.
Francis P. Blair, took
possession of Missouri's State Capital at Jefferson City, and ousted
the elected State administration, which by this time had seceded from
the Union.
|
6; 48
|
Note
|
The
ousted
Rebel
administration,
then
fled
southward,
avoiding
pursuit
by
the Union forces. They preserved their "Government-in-Exile"
status, intending to return to Jefferson City and serve out their
elected terms of office, just as soon as the South could win the
War.
They kept their Rebel administration intact until the end of the
War. I have chronicled these activities in Appendix XXXIX;
Missouri History: The Rebel Secretaries of State.
|
|
12
Jun.1861 to
21 Oct.1861
|
During
this
period,
B.F.
Massey
actively
performed
his
duties
as Secretary of
State, all the time that the Government-in-Exile was dodging the Union
forces, moving from place to place all over the South.
|
27; 48
|
21
Oct.1861
|
B.F.
Massey
attended
a
meeting
of
the
Government-in-Exile
that had been
called to authorize the printing and issuing of $10 million of
"Missouri Defence Bonds", to be used to pay the Rebel troops. At
this same meeting they passed their official "Ordinance of Secession,"
attested by and sealed by B.F. Massey, Secy. of State.
|
27; 34
|
21
Oct.1861
to
4thQ.1862
|
During
this
year-long
period,
B.F.
Massey
was
not
often
actually in the
company of the Rebel administration; his health was bothering
him. His son and Chief Clerk, Benjamin Ulpian Massey, was
functioning as his deputy, performing what official duties were
required by the Secretary of State.
|
27
|
4thQ.1862
|
When
the
issue
of
"Missouri
Defence
Bonds"
was
ready
to be signed, B.F.
Massey was not physically available to sign them. He may have
actually resigned his post as Secretary of State at this time; we are
not sure. At any rate, Benjamin Ulpian Massey writes that he
signed them in place of his father, who was not present.
|
27
|
6
Dec.1862
|
Governor
Jackson
died
suddenly;
and
at
this
moment
B.F.
Massey was definitely
not functioning as Secretary of State. When Lt. Gov. Reynolds
succeeded as the new Governor, he immediately appointed Adjutant
General Warwick Hough as the new Secretary of State.
|
27; 48
|
4thQ.1862
to
25 Jul.1864
|
Howard
Co.,
Mo.:
After
his
resignation,
B.F.
Massey
and
his family lived on a
farm near Fayette, Howard Co., Mo., some 15 miles north of Boonville.
|
7
|
30
Mar.1864
|
Fayette,
Howard
Co.,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
wrote
his
friend,
Dr. J. F. Snyder, that
he was home in Fayette.
|
43
|
25
Jul.1864
|
Fayette,
Howard
Co.,
Mo.:
Maria
Hawkins
Withers
Massey
died,
wife of B.F.
Massey. After her death, the family scattered, never again to be
together as a group.
|
7
|
1864-1865
|
Neosho,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
is
said
to
have
lived, during this period, in the
household of his son, Frank R. Massey.
|
7
|
Jan.
1865
to
13 Feb.1865
|
Fayette,
Howard Co.,
Mo.:
He
spent
over
a
month
in Illinois, in the area bounded
by Keokuk, Iowa, Quincy, Ill. and Springfield, Ill. He sought to
find a farm, suitable as a home for himself and his family. The search
was unsuccessful.
|
43
|
1866-1868
|
He
farmed
in
the
Fayette
area
and
in
the
St. Louis area.
|
7
|
1
Jun.1868
|
Writing
to
Dr.
Snyder
from
St.
Louis,
B.F.
Massey
sought help in selling 225
Texas steers, then in the railroad yards at Sedalia, Mo.
|
52
|
Nov.1868
|
Newtonia,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
He
wrote
Dr.
Snyder
that
he was selling goods for an
old acquaintance, and that his son, Robert Douglass Massey, was with
him.
|
43
|
15
Jul.1869
|
Newtonia:
He
wrote
Dr.
Snyder
that
he
expected
to
leave Newtonia in a couple of
weeks, but that his destination had not been determined.
|
43
|
1869
|
Pierce
City,
Lawrence
Co.,
Mo.:
Col.[sic]
B.F.
Massey
became
editor of the
Jacksonian, after H. Lisk had merged it with the Pierce City Star.
|
23
|
10
Aug.1870
|
Newtonia,
Newton
Co.,
Mo.:
Census:
Name
|
Age
|
Birthplace
|
Occupation
|
Drury
Tatum
|
45
|
N.C.
|
Dry
Goods
Merchant
|
Eveline
Tatum
|
43
|
N.C.
|
|
John
P.
Tatum
|
23
|
N.C.
|
|
George
T.
Tatum
|
20
|
N.C.
|
|
Benjamin
F.
Tatum
|
15
|
Mo.
|
|
Benjamin
Massey
|
59
|
Md.
|
Clerk,
Store
|
Robert
D.
Massey
|
11
|
Mo.
|
|
|
40
|
1870
|
After
the
"test
oath",
imposed
by
the
Drake
Convention,
was removed, B. F.
Massey was a candidate for the nomination for Missouri Secretary of
State, at the Democratic and Liberal Convention, but it was considered
too soon to endorse an "ex-Rebel", and he was defeated .
|
7; 48
|
24
Oct.1870
|
Pierce
City,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
wrote
Dr.
Snyder:
"I
am trying to be an Editor
in the interest of the so-called rebel."
|
54
|
1871
|
Pierce
City,
Mo.:
E.F.
Phelps
bought
the
Jacksonian
and
changed its name to
the Pierce City Herald. It ceased publication in 1874.
|
27; 23
|
1873
|
Springfield,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
wrote
his
friend,
Dr.
Snyder, that he was living in
Springfield with two of his sons.
|
43
|
14
Dec.1874
|
Neosho,
Mo.:
Massey
wrote
Dr.
Snyder
that
he
was
living in the home of his son,
Frank R. Massey, who was operating a department store with his
brother-in-law.
|
43
|
Nov.1874
|
Neosho,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
ran
for
the
office
of Circuit Court Clerk, a
four-year term job, but was defeated.
|
43
|
Jan.1875
|
Neosho,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
ran
for,
and
was
elected Member of the Missouri
Constitutional Convention; which framed the present Missouri State
Constitution. In this same letter, he wrote Dr. Snyder that all
ten of his children were living.
|
7; 48; 43
|
1876-1877
|
Pierce
City,
Lawrence
Co.,
Mo.:
For
a
short
time,
B.F. Massey again edited a
weekly newspaper at Pierce City.
|
7
|
1stQ.1878
|
Springfield,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
and
Frank
R.
Massey
were both listed as residents of
F.R. Massey's home at 504 W. Walnut Street.
|
22
|
1stQ.1879
|
Springfield,
Mo.:
B.F.
Massey
suffered
a
paralytic
stroke,
and was being taken care
of at the home of his son, Benjamin Ulpian Massey. His health
required round-the-clock nursing care, not available in Springfield,
and he was taken to Sisters Hospital, in St. Louis.
|
43; 7; 19
|
17
Dec.1879
|
St.
Louis,
Mo.:
Benjamin
Franklin
Massey
died.
He
was
buried in the
family lot, Maple Hill Cemetery, in Springfield. His obituary
reads:- "ten children survive."
|
19; 4
|
Note
|
Note.
We
have
searched
in
vain
for
a
B.F.
Massey Will, nor have we located
any B.F. Massey Probate or Administration papers. We have
searched all Missouri counties where logic suggests they should be
found.
|
|
|
|
|
Children
|
|
1
|
Note
|
The
eight
eldest
children
note
their
birthplace
in
different
ways;-
"Sarcoxie," "near Sarcoxie," "Jasper Country." As I have found no
evidence that B.F. Massey had a residence in Sarcoxie itself, my
feeling is that they were born on their fathers's "Spring River Valley"
farm, just north and east of Sarcoxie.
|
|
+M-43
|
Nina Eleanor Massey, b. 12
Apr.1840, Jasper Co., Mo.; d. 10 Mar.1925, St. Louis, Mo.; m. 30 May
1861,
at Springfield, Mo. to Warwick Hough, b. 26 Jan.1836, d. 28 Oct.1915.
|
|
+M-44
|
Benjamin Ulpian Massey, b.
28 Feb.1842, Jasper Co., Mo.; d. 10 May 1907, Springfield, Mo.;
m. 1st. 20 Apr.1869, at Jefferson City, Mo., Mary Sydney Smith, b.c.
1844-1845; d. 18 Feb.1875. m. 2nd. Nov. 1879, Crissie Boone,
b.c. 1856, d. 17 Jul.1891. Married 3rd. Ella Jones, b. 1874,
d.1955.
|
|
+M-89
|
Julian Pinckney Massey, b.
15 Jan.1844, Jasper Co., Mo; d. Jan.1912, unmarried.
|
|
+M-46
|
Clarence Randolph Massey,
b. 16 Jul.1846, Jasper Co., Mo.; d. 12 Nov.1912; m.Clara E______, who
re-married after 1913, and d.1929.
|
|
+M-378
|
Logan Sydney Massey, b. 21
Jun.1848, Jasper Co., Mo.; near Sarcoxie.
|
|
+M-42
|
Frank Raliegh Massey, b. 12
Apr.1850, Jasper Co.,Mo.; d. 25 Jun.1916, Springfield, Mo.; m.
12 May 1872, at Neosho, Mo., Sallie E. Jones, b. 4 Mar.1854, d. 30
Oct.1930.
|
|
+M-45
|
Scott Withers Massey, b. 4
Mar.1852, Jasper Co., Mo.; d. 30 Dec.1905, Springfield, Mo.; m.16 May
1885, at Ozark Christian Co., Mo.; Virginia L. Vaughan, b.c.1867,
d.c.1900.
|
|
+M-7
|
Lyda (Eliza Adelaide) Massey,
b.
7
Oct.1854,
Jasper
Co.,
Mo.;
d.
22 Dec.1929, Kansas City, Mo.; m.
6 Feb.1875, at Jefferson City, Mo., Daniel Boone Holmes, b. 13
Mar.1850, d. 5 Nov.1911, Kansas City, Mo.
|
|
+M-47
|
Mollie (Maria Louisa) Massey,
b. 12 Dec.1857, Boonville, Cooper Co.,Mo.; d. 26 Sep.1912, Missoula,
Mont.; m. 1 Jul.1885, Fayette, Mo., George T. McCullough, who d.1938.
|
|
+M-90
|
Robert Douglass Massey, b.
19 Oct.1858, Greene Co., Mo.; d. 7 Nov.1909, Bentonville, Ark.
|
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