Clarence Ernest Massey

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• Name: Dick

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Carpenter work, railroad grade contracting, general contracting.

Successful in his line of work and has handled some large jobs, among which was the Valley water falls, the Grant Street subway, did the work for the filtering plant at the pump station for the Springfield water works, and he built te first peice of special read that was ever seen in Greene County.

Owned a commodious home on South Campbell street, surrounded by a lot containing five acres.

Married twice to sisters Hannah and Mary J. Prier. 13 children.

Richard married Hannah Prier on 18 Apr 1877 in Stone, Missouri, USA. Hannah (daughter of Allen Thomas Prier and Mary Jane Brown) was born on 16 Aug 1853 in Henry County, Iowa; died on 24 Oct 1890 in Stone, Missouri, USA; was buried in Galena Cemetery, Galena, Stone, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hannah Massey with seven children in the 1889 census for Whitman, WA.

Hannah Massey passed away during childbirth to twins. Only one survived, while the other is buried with Hannah. Her father, Allen Thomas Prier, deeded the land (north section of Galena Cemetery) to the City of Galena, as Hannah and her child were the first to be buried on this land.

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• Name: Captain In War Of 1812
• Name: James Henry

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Greene Co, Missouri, History book, pages 1927-29:
Born in Ireland, where he spent his boyhood and attended school. When eighteen years of age he ran away from home and sailed on broad Atlantic toward the United States to seek his fortune. He first settled in Knox County, Tennessee, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains, regarding whose picturesque inhabitants so much has been written, and in that locality he was married and made his home until the year 1832, when he made the tedious and somewhat hazardous overland trip to Greene county, Missouri, bringing his family in a primitive wagon, and thus the Masseys were among the earliest pioneers of this locality.

He secured a tract of land just east of what is now the thriving city of Springfield, but which was at that time an encampment of the Kickapoo Indians. He set to work with a will, cleared, broke and fenced his land, erected a log cabin and by perseverance and hard work became very comfortably fixed in due course and time, and was a man of influence among the early frontiersmen, his neighbours being, however, very few and most of them some miles distant, untill more Tennesseeans followed him, the Fulbrights, the Freemans and others.

Although he devoted the major portion of his life to farming, he was a mechanic by trade and a skilled workman. He made the first separator, or "ground-hog" tresher, ever seen in this part of the country. During the war of 1812, he enlisted in defense of his adopted country, gladly fighting against the flag under which he was born, and for meritoruius conduct on the field of battle he was promoted from a private to a captain, and served with distinction throughout the war. Politically he was first a Whig, then a Republican after that party was organized in the fifties. His death occured on his farm here in 1863.

His first wife was Faithful Strickland, she bore him 13 children. Among them Nathaniel J., William, Mrs. Mc Adams, Mrs. Rountree. William was a quarter master in the Union Army during the Civil War. His second wife, Martha Ellen Anderson, was a native of Tennessee, where she grew up and recieved a limited education. She lived to an advanced age, dying in Stone County, Missouri, in February 1899?. To these parents nine children were born."

1810 Living next door to Moses Strickland, Pendleton district, South Carolina.
1820, Pendleton district, SC.
1830, Giles, TN, family of ten, seven slaves.
1840, Greene, Missouri
1844, Sep 10th, James H. Massey bought 79 acres of land in Springfield, MO (twp 29).
1845, May 5th, James Massey bought 80 acres of land in Springfield, MO (twp 29).
1850, Campell, Greene, Missouri
1859, June 1st, James H. Massey, bought 40 acres of at Springfield, MO.

He may have had a brother Ephraim M. Massey, who is mentioned in connection with the Treaty from the Cherokee in 1820:

TREASURY OFFICE - Columbia, May 9, 1820
Notice is hereby given to Noble Anderson, Thomas Smith, E.M. Massey, Jane Poteat, Ira Nicholson, Wm. Beavort, David Kitchen, William Deadman, Philemon Crane, and Ralph Cobb respectively, and all other persons who have not yet paid the second instalment upon their Bonds, given for the purchase money of each Tract or Tracts of Land as may have been bought by them, at the sale of Public Lands lying in that part of Pendleton District, lately known as Teritory purchased by Treaty from the Cherokee Indians which was sold in March, 1818, at the house of Ephraim Massey, on the old Cherokee Boundary Line; that they and each of them, by delaying to pay the said second installment now due, have made default, and that unless the said second installment shall be paid within sixty days from the date hereof, together with the costs of this publication, the payments heretofore made will be forefeited and the lands purchased by them revert to the State.
Benjamin T. Elmore
Treasurer Upper Division
Note on Ancestry: The same above ad ran into mid July 1820. The E.M. Massey shown on the above notice was Ephraim Massey, brother of James Massey who will move to Greene Co., Missouri.
The above ad was found on GenealogyBank.com Newspaper Archives subscription service.

(Half)siblings may have been: Ephraim Miller Massey, Jane Brown (born Massey), Sarah Dunlap (born Massey), Martha Smith (born Massey), Robert Massey, Mary Margaret Knox Patrick (born Massey).

Uncertain how all these siblings in the US coincides with the history James running away from home in Ireland. Both Limerick and Northern Ireland have been mentioned as a birthplace. Sarah Jane "Sally" Massey Taylor, James' daughter, states on 1930 census that her father was born in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland was not a country untill 1921.

Birth:
Sarah Jane "Sally" Massey Taylor, James' daughter, states on 1930 census that her father was born in Northern Ireland.

James married Martha Ellen Anderson on 10 Jul 1838 in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA. Martha (daughter of Samuel Anderson and Mary McKenzie) was born in 1819 in Pendelton, South Carolina; died on 15 Feb 1894 in Galena, Stone, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Civil war soldier. Pioneer settler. Secured land for his homestead in Stone, Mo in 1892.
Father: Wesley Prier (1796-1849), mother Hannah See (1797-1877).

married to Mary Jane Brown. "Allen Prier, after the death of his daughter Hannah Prier Massey, deeded twelve acres of land to the city of Galena for the Galena Cemetery..." part of the biography of Prier ancestors from the book "History of Stone Co MO Vol 1" by Stone Co MO Historical Society, page 590

Allen married Mary Jane Brown on 30 Jun 1850 in New London, Iowa. Mary was born about 1834 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died in 1908 in Maramos, Iowa; was buried in Rice Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married Allen Thomas Prier in 1850 (?) in New London, IA on his father's farm, she was 14 he was 2?, so the birth date may be wrong. After the civil war they moved to Forsythe, Mo, then back to Iowa, then to Galena, Mo where he is buried. She later lived with her sons, Wesley and Iowa and died in the hills near Maramos and is buried in Rice Cemetery.

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1744, Northern Ireland
1790, Union, South Carolina
1800, 1810, 1820, Pendleton District, South Carolina
1836 tax list, Giles, Tennessee
1839, passed in Cornersville, Giles, TN at the age of 95.

Died at the age of 94 years. Inscription: Sacred to the Memory of James Massey, Sen., Who departed this life Nov the 4th in the year 1839. Aged 94 years.

The father of Esq. Ephraim Miller Massey who died 1836. Both are buried in the "Old Marrs Church Cemetery" about 1/4 mi north of the current cemetery in Marshall County, TN near Lynnville. As is Andrew Miller Massey, who died Feb 16, 1828, aged 5yrs, 8 mos, 11 days.

May have married Nancy Miller on 9 Aug 1812 in Greene, Georgia.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69638279/james-henry-massey

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Enlisted on Aug 15th 1810 with the rank "drummer" in US Arty, and served for five years Fort St. Phillip and Fort St. Charles (New Orleans). Discharged Aug 15th 1815 when term expired.

1830 census reciding in Regiment 98, Monroe, Tennessee.

Children were born in White Co., Tennessee. Came to Missouri in 1837, located in Greene County about four miles east of Springfield, and resided there for years. Thence they moved to James River in Stone County, about four miles above Galena, and resided there for many years. In 1860 they moved to Douglas Co, where there mother died three years later, and the father returned to Stone Co, and died in 1865, close to where he first settled. He was the father of seven children: Martha, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anna, Helen, Dorcas and Eliza. He came from old Revolutionary stock, his father having fought bravely for independence.
Source: A Reminiscent History Ozark Region 1894.

1860 MO census, Stone Co, Microfilm page 552, line 12; Washington twp, Galena P O, dwg 22. Samuel Anderson, age 60, and Mary, age 59, have one child, William Watson, age 12, in the home. relationship unknown.

Death year seen as 1865 (above) or Dec 1873. Named as a native of White, Tennessee, but believed to have been born in the Pendelton district of SC, which split into Anderson and Pickens counties, GA. The Anderson land fell into Pickens.

Probate: 28 Jan 1874 • Stone Co, , Missouri, USA. Estate of Samuel Anderson, dec'd

Samuel married Mary McKenzie in 1818. Mary (daughter of Chesley McKenzie) was born in 1802 in Pendelton District, SC; died in 1863 in Douglas, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]