MASSEY, Jane b. Abt 1819 Tennessee, USA

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MASSEY, Jane

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  • Name MASSEY, Jane 
    Born Abt 1819  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Census 1850  Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Census 1860  District 4, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • November 15, 1951

      This Article Appeared In The Times
      But Was Not Actually In Cal?s Column

      Transcribed by Rae Wayne

      A LETTER

      Below we are giving a letter recently written by Cal to Cpl. William R. Massey, Box C-5, 3321 Student Sqdn., Scott Air Force Base, Il l. For the information about the family, we are taking the liberty of publishing same in the Time

      Lafayette, Tennessee,
      November 12, 1951
      Cpl. William R. Massey
      Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

      Dear Sir:

      Your letter relative to your line of family descent has come to me and contents have been read with interest. I am sorry that I have but a limited amount of information on your family. The following is all I have available today, althomte a lot of other facts and odds and ends of family history of the Masseys. But it is among my papers and would take too long at this time to find it for you.

      You are descended from William Massey, native of either Orange or Chatham County, North Carolina. His father, whose name is unknown to the writer, was killed by a jack. He was largely reared an orphan. After the death of his father, h, who once lived on the top of the high hill where uncle John Porter reared his family in later years. This was on the ridge between Peyton?s and Dixon?s Creeks. William bought land on Scanty Branch in 1814. He came from North Carolina by ox cart, his wife and the two oldest children being with him. His wife was the former Miss Candace Edwards, of North Carolina, her father having been a distiller in that State. Her mother is thought to have been a Pendergrass.

      The children of William and Candace Massey were: Abijah, P., Jemima, Sallie Jane, Rebecca, Nancy, Hugh, Will and Brice Massey. Abijah, who married Judy Coker, moved to Missouri in 1860. Jemima died young and unmarried. Sallie, marrie.he mother of: Hugh, Ben, Sarah, Judy, William and Jane Oldham.

      Jane married William Oldham, a brother of Tom J. Oldham, both being sons of George Oldham and became the mother of: Sam, Celia, Murray, Nancy, Margaret, Candace, Ann, Mima and Jim Oldham.

      Rebecca Massey married John McKinnis, whose descendants I have somewhere among old records but not available at this time.

      Nancy Massey, a deaf mute, who never married so far as I can find.

      Hugh Massey, married Polly McDonald. Will Massey married Susan Halliburton. Brice Massey married Lucinda Chitwood.

      Hugh Oldham, son of Sallie Massey and Tommie J. Oldham, married Em Dillehay and became the father of: Dossie Oldham, married Robert Gregory; Martha Oldham, married Eli J. Cothron; Sam Oldham, married a Merryman; Herbie Oldham, marriede;hried a Cothron; Pole Oldham, married a Gregory; and Quillie Oldham, married Tom Stokes Gregory.

      Ben Oldham, son of Tommie and Sallie, went to Oklahoma, and we have no further record. Tom Oldham, son of Sallie and Tommie, was killed during the Civil War. Sarah, a sister of Ben, Hugh and Tom, married Jim Blackwell. Judy, anothe. William Oldham was another son of Tommie and Sallie, but we have no further record. The other member of the family was Jane, who married a Smith.

      Jane Massey and her husband, William Oldham, the parents of Sam, Celia, Murray, Nancy, Margaret, Candace, Mima and Jim or James Oldham, had the following grandchildren: Sam Oldham?s wife was Sallie or Chib Gregory, daughter of Tom Gregorory, Sam and Chib were the parents of: Will W., Henry, Nelson, Mance, Janie and Nora Oldham. Celia, married John Shoulders and we have no further record at this time. Murray, no record. Nancy, married Rufus Beasley and was the mother of: Pole, George, Cason, Floyd and Sherman Beasley; and three or four girls. Margaret married Lon Dies and was the mother of Billie Dies. Candace, married a Richardson, and we have no further record. Ann, married a Burrie, and we have no further record. Mima, and here our record ends; and last of all, James, bitten by a rattlesnake many, many years ago on the rocky point above the present home of Richard Towns on Toe Town Branch and died, aged about ten years.

      Hugh Oldham and his wife, Polly, were the parents of: Nancy Lee, married William Halliburton, a brother of Susan Halliburton; Elizabeth and John William Massey, died from diphtheria while young; Margaret, married John Williams; Hailey Mded a Tuck; and Timothy Massey, married a Tuck.

      Brice Massey and his wife, Lucinda Chitwood, were the parents of: John W. Massey, for many years clerk of Dixon?s Creek Baptist church, and who died some years ago at Riddleton, married a Piper; W. P. Massey, never married; Clemency, marnry married Miss Marshall Duncan; and Monroe Massey, married a Towns. We may here add that Mrs. Henry Massey was the writer?s first teacher, to whom he started to school beginning on Tuesday after the second Monday in Aug., 1898, when we were a boy of seven.

      Brice Massey, the last of the children of William Massey and his wife, Candace Edwards, as our records show, married Lucinda Chitwood and became the father of one daughter, Flora, who married first a Nunley and later a Parker. She has bd. The only son was Will I. Massey, who is the grandfather of the party to whom this letter is addressed, Cpl. William R. Massey.

      Just what connection there was, if any, between this Massey family and that of Elder C. B. Massey, 84-year-old Baptist minister of Pleasant Shade, is not known to the writer. We know that the family to which Elder Massey belongs in fromae believe. He is the son of Lon Massey, who died more than 75 years ago. Another member of the same family was Dick Massey, formerly of upper Dixon?s Creek.

      There is still another branch of the Massey family in the vicinity of Elmwood, but we do not know if there is any connection between it and the two branches above mentioned. W. H. Massey, a rural carrier out of Elmwood for many years,f t

      If the writer had time, he would be glad to trace the Smith and Trousdale County family back through the centuries, but time is pressing us and we will have to forego this pleasure.

      We hope that the soldier boy will get some little light from this letter.

      Please write us if any point is not clear. Also we thank you for the outline of your ancestry, which you have sent to us.

      With every good wish, I am

      Sincerely yours,
      Calvin Gregory

      Wife, Sarah Massey is sister of Tommy Oldham's wife.

      1850 Federal Census, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
      Oldham, William L. 32 TN
      Oldham, Jane 31 TN
      Oldham, Sarah A. 10 TN
      Oldham, Celia A. 7 TN
      Oldham, Nancy A. 4 TN
      Oldham, Jammia J. 2 TN
      Oldham, James Thomas 0 TN
      Shoulders, Abner 37 TN

      1860 Federal Census, District 6, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
      Wm Oldham 40
      Jane Oldham 40
      Nancy Oldham 14
      Jemima J Oldham 12
      Samuel W Oldham 10
      George W Oldham 5
      Margaret P Oldham 2

    Person ID I23042  oldham
    Last Modified 17 May 2014 

    Father MASSEY, William 
    Mother EDWARDS, Candace,   b. Abt 1786, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F9249  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family OLDHAM, William L.,   b. Abt 1820, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1870, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Married 5 Mar 1838  Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Massey<Br>  William L. and Jane Massey Oldham
    Massey
    William L. and Jane Massey Oldham

    Marriage Record
    Children 
     1. OLDHAM, Murray,   b. Yes, date unknown
     2. OLDHAM, Ann,   b. Yes, date unknown
     3. OLDHAM, Sarah A.,   b. Abt 1840, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. OLDHAM, Celia J. or Sela,   b. Abt 1843, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. OLDHAM, Nancy A.,   b. 7 Jul 1844, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1900, Graveltown, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
     6. OLDHAM, Jamima Mima J.,   b. Abt 1848, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. OLDHAM, James Thomas,   b. Abt 1850, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1860  (Age ~ 10 years)
     8. OLDHAM, Candace,   b. Abt 1852,   d. Bef 1900, Trousdale County Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years)
     9. OLDHAM, Samuel William,   b. 18 Jul 1853, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Feb 1910, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     10. OLDHAM, George W.,   b. 1855, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     11. OLDHAM, Margaret P.,   b. 1858, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 29 Nov 2013 
    Family ID F7672  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1819 - Tennessee, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 5 Mar 1838 - Smith County, Tennessee, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Federal - 1850 - Smith County, Tennessee, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Massey<Br>  William L. and Jane Massey Oldham
    Massey
    William L. and Jane Massey Oldham

    Marriage Record

  • Sources 
    1. [S2435] 1850 Federal Census, Smith County, Tennessee.

    2. [S1263] 1850 Federal Census, North of Cumberland and East of Caney Fork Rivers, Smith County, Tennessee, household 871/871 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S785] 1860 Federal Census, District 6, Smith County, Tennessee, Page 75, household 543/543 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S3414] Marriage Records, Smith County, Tennessee.