Transcribed by M. Carter
This Article
Appeared In The Times
But Was Not
Actually In Cal’s Column
OCTOBER 23, 1952
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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