Transcribed by M. Carter

 

This Article Appeared In The Times

But Was Not Actually In Cal’s Column

 

OCTOBER 23, 1952

 

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