Section IV  Massey Appendices One Maryland Massey Family by George Langford, Jr. 1901-1996
©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010


Appendix XLI 
The Actively Rebel Massey Family


6.Benjamin Franklin Massey, 1811-1879, was the leader and head of his family group of active, ardent supporters of the Rebel cause.
The family members who served in the exiled Missouri State government Administration headed by Governor Claiborne F. Jackson were:
Massey
Number
Person
Source
6
Benjamin Franklin Massey; Secretary of State.
1; 2; 3
44
Benjamin Ulpian Massey; son of B.F. Massey, who served as his father's Chief Clerk.
2
...
Warwick Hough; son-in-law of B.F. Massey, and husband of 43.Nina Massey Hough; Adjutant General, and for a brief period, Secretary of State.
3; 6
...
Warwick Hough; who resigned his appointment as Secretary of State to serve in the Rebel army as a Captain from 1863 to 1865.
3; 6
89
Julian Pinckney Massey; who was no doubt one of the two brothers of 43.Nina Massey Hough that she says "ran away and joined the Confederate army."  We have found no record of the details of this service.
4
46
Clarence Randolph Massey; the younger of the two Massey brothers who "ran away and joined the Confederate army."  We have been unsuccessful in attempts to find records of this military service.
4
43
Nina Massey Hough, eldest daughter of B.F. Massey, and wife of Warwick Hough.  She served as a message courier for the rebel forces; was captured by Union troops, and served two months in a military prison.
5
The remaining four sons of B.F. Massey were too young to have taken an active part in the Rebel cause:
Massey
Number
Person
378
Logan Sydney Massey, b. 21 Jun.1848.
42
Frank Raliegh Massey, b. 12 Apr.1850.
45
Scott Withers Massey, b. 4 Mar.1852.
90
Robert Douglass Massey, b. 19 Oct.1858.
and the two little girls were with their mother at Boonville, Mo.:
Massey
Number
Person
47
Molly Massey, b. 12 Dec.1856.
7
Lyda Massey, b. 7 Oct.1854.

Sources

1
Appendix XXIX: 6.Benjamin Ulpian Massey: Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Franklin Massey.
2
Appendix XXXII: Autobiography of 44.Benjamin Ulpian Massey.
3
Appendix XXXIX: Missouri History: The Rebel Secretaries of State.
4
Appendix XXXI: 43.Nina Massey Hough: Autobiographical Notes.
5
Appendix XXXVI: 43.Nina Massey Hough: Her Military Imprisonment.
6
Excursus I: Hough.