ABOUT MASSEY FAMILY

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Route 3,

Red Boiling Springs,

Tenn.

Oct. 20, 1952

Brother Gregory:

The other Massey you referred to as Pleasant Massey’s son was John Massey, who married Catherine Gammon. Their children were: Anroe, married Andy Ethridge; Mary, married Sam Poteet; Craton, married George Hix; Jennie, married Tom Huddleston; Temple, married Sherman Hance; and one son, named Columbus, commonly called Lum Massey, who married Ella Whitley.

John Massey lived on my father’s place for several years, 20 or more. He was a blacksmith and an ex-Union soldier in the Civil War. He died near Rose Hill in this county. I visited the man as long as he lived. After leaving the creek, he bought a little place on which he later died. I recall one incident. I saw his sweet potato vines only about a yard long. I thought it was poor chance for a crop out there in the Rose Hill section. After he dug his potatoes, he had a nice lot of the largest potatoes I ever saw. I remember that he left one, all winter, on his mantel over the fire which weighed seven pounds. I decided that he had a better potato farm than we did on the creek. I left home and went and waited on him for two weeks in his last days.

Respectfully,

J. B. Hudson