West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: #1 BIO John Milton DINGESS of Lincoln [PJAFLA@aol.com] #2 Early History of Clay County [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO HEZEKIAH HAGER Lincoln County [PJAFLA@aol.com] #4 Early History of Lincoln County [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 Will of Thomas Upton [NMClara@aol.com] #6 BIO PHILLIP HAGER of Lincoln Count [PJAFLA@aol.com] #7 The Settlement of Charleston, Kana [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 The First House in Charleston, Kan [SSpradling@aol.com] #9 Charleston becomes a town [SSpradling@aol.com] #10 BIO James and Andrew Ruffner, Kana [SSpradling@aol.com] #11 BIO Adam Aultz, Kanawha County [SSpradling@aol.com] #12 BIO Isaac Comer, Kanawha County [SSpradling@aol.com] #13 BIO Robert Lee Massey, Kanawha Cou [SSpradling@aol.com] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:04:04 EDT From: PJAFLA@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <219756c2.251511f4@aol.com> Subject: BIO John Milton DINGESS of Lincoln County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia: Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974 JOHN MILTON DINGESS--son of Peter and Mary (Stone) Dingess was born in Logan county, (now) West Virginia, November 3, 1822, and came to Lincoln county in 1853. In Logan county December 25, 1845, John M Dingess and Matilda, daughter of Richard and Mary (Ingram) McDonald were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. She was born in Pulaski county, Virginia, August 3, 1823. The record of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Dingess is: Peter Scott, born August 31, 1847, resides in Union district, Lincoln county; Mary Ann, February 4, 1851, at home; Jerusha Alice, November 12, 1852 lives in Carroll district, Lincoln county; Matilda Jane, September 25, 1856, died May 19, 1858; George Edgar, April 3, 1858 died April 29, 1858. Mrs. Dingess and her two daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. Dingess owns a farm of 150 acres located on the Middle fork of Mud river, four miles east of Hamlin. There is a young orchard on the farm, and plenty of coal and iron ore to be found. Address Mr. Dingess at Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:13:08 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Early History of Clay County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. CLAY COUNTY Was established in 1856. It is thought by many to be the roughest county in West Virginia. Elk river passes through it from East to West, and is the only outlet for the commodities of the county. There is but little smooth but little smooth or level land within its territory; and as a natural consequence, there is not enough of hay, grain and the like, raised within the limits of the county to meet the actual wants of its citizens. The people of Clay county spend nearly all their time cutting saw-logs, getting out cooper stuff, hoop poles, &C which are brought down the Elk river in very large quantities on nearly every rise. I have counted as many as one hundred and nine rafts, averaging one hundred logs each, as they came down Elk river, in one day, on a Spring rise. They were not all, however, from Clay, perhaps more than half of them being from Braxton and Webster counties. Like Braxton, Clay county is underlaid with immense beds of coal and iron, and whenever the locking and dam-ming of Elk river is completed, the lands of Clay county will necessarily become immensely valuable. History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 30-31 ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:15:16 EDT From: PJAFLA@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <156d702a.25151494@aol.com> Subject: BIO HEZEKIAH HAGER Lincoln County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974. HEZEKIAH HAGER ---born in Boone county, West Virginia, November 21, 1842, came to Lincoln county in 1853, with his parents, Joseph and Rachel (Pauley) Hager. Emily J. Roberts, daughter of Frank and Mary M. (Tucker) Roberts was born in Cabell county, West Virginia, January 22, 1860. She became the wife of Hezekiah Hager in Lincoln county, February 27, 1876, and their home is brightened by four children, born as follows: Joseph F., February 13, 1877; Benjamin F., August 28, 1879; Lula, April 2, 1881; Carrie, December 18, 1882. Mr. Hager enlisted in the civil war in June 1862, serving in the Confederate army until he was wounded in October, 1864, returning to his home in Lincoln county. The subject of this sketch owns 135 acres of good land heavily timbered with pine, poplar, cherry, maple, hickory and walnut. This land is situated in harts Creek district, fourteen miles from Hamlin. He also owns 223 acres of fine farming land on the Middle Fork of Mud river, about four miles from Hamlin. This farm is well-improved, good orchard and well watered. Hezekiah Hager has one of the finest residences in Hamlin. He is clerk of the county court, which office he has held ten years. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:25:18 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4a770331.251516ee@aol.com> Subject: Early History of Lincoln County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. LINCOLN COUNTY Is the youngest of Kanawha's numerous offspring. It was organized in 1867, from the territory of Kanawha, Cabell, Logan and Boone counties. It is drained by the Coal and Mud rivers; is broken and sparsely settled; is a fair agricultural country; is well timbered, and filled with coal and other minerals. Hamlin, its seat of justice, is on the Mud river, and is surrounded by a section of blue-grass lands that are considered very valuable, hecailse of their superior grazing and stock-raising qualities. It is rapidly increasing its facilities for stockv raising, and promises to take a leading rank in this branch of industry. History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 31 ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:38:19 EDT From: NMClara@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Will of Thomas Upton Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Court of Kanawha County, Virginia 7 April 1794 Present: Charles McClung, George Alderson, Leonard Morris, David Robinson, James Van Bibber and William Morris, Gentlemen. That William Clendenin and Samuel Thomas came into court and prove the last will and testament of Thomas Upton, dec'd according to law: In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Upton, Kanawha County, make this my last will and testament. I resign my soul to its Creator all humble hopes of its future happiness as in the disposal of a being infinitely good; also my body and it is my will that it be buried in a Christian manner. As touching my worldy affairs wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with, I hereby appoint my particular friend and nephew Fleming Cobbs, executor of this my last will and testament. I do will and bequeath to my brother, Joseph Upton the half of that tract of land lying below Davis Creek which part he is to have at the lower end. I do will to my nephew Thomas Cobb, son to Thomas Cobb of Buckingham County, the half of that part of said tract that lies above Davis Creek. I do will to Thomas Upton, Joseph Upton, Elia Upton and Elijah Upton, sons of Joseph Upton, each 200 acres of land of a certain tract of 1400 acres on Cole River at the Upper Falls. Of the other 600 acres to be equally divided between India Cobbs and Mapprin (?), daughters to Thomas Cobb, Rebeckah Thomas, daughter to Rebeckah Crouch. I do hereby will to Marah Toler, daughter to Thomas Cobb, my negro woman named Tillah together with her increase. I do will to Rebeckah Thomas, my negro woman named Nan together with her child. I do will to Nancy Cobb, daughter to Thomas Cobb, my negro woman named Pallis. I do will to my brother Joseph Upton, my sorrel mare and bay mare colt and about 30 pounds of feathers at James Jabbins (?) and 8 hogs now in the island and my big barrow and one of my young (illegible) and my rifle. 2 January 1794 Signed: Thomas Upton Witnesses: William Clendenin and Samuel Thomas Recorded 27 April 1795 ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:41:32 EDT From: PJAFLA@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO PHILLIP HAGER of Lincoln County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974 PHILLIP HAGER---grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Virginia to Lincoln County in 1807. At that time this section of West Virginia was a wild wilderness, inhabited by wolves, bears, deer, panthers, wild cats, etc.; and Mr. Hager's parents did much towards civilizing the place. His father Major John Hager, died April 23, 1865 and his mother Elizabeth (Miller) Hager, resides in Kansas. Rev. Phillip Hager was born in Boone county, West Virginia, March 26, 1841, and in that county, September 30, 1858 he was united in wedlock with Elizabeth Jane Dalton, and to them eleven children have been given; Gilbert Monterville born May 10, 1860, residing in Laurel Hill district; Minerva (Grass), March 30, 1862; resides near Hamlin; Florida (Barrett) November 5, 1864, resides in Duval District; Emma Jane, October 4, 1886; Maj. John, December 30, 1868; Phillip Jr., February 23, 1872; Walter, March 2, 1874, died the same day; Benjamin F., March 14, 1875; Rosa, July 27, 1877; Andrew C., August 9, 1878; James H., June 28, 1880--the young children are at home. Mrs. Hager was born in Tazewell county, Virginia, May 14, 1842, and she is a daughter of Allen and Nancy (Bruster) Dalton. Her father died in November, 1864 and her mother died January 10, 1849. Rev. Phillip Hager has been president of the board of education, and was elected captain of the militia in Boone county. He enlisted in the civil war on the Confederate side, in 1862, serving in Company D., 34th Virginia Cavalry, as lieutenant, and participating in the battles of Chapmanville, Gettysburg, and twenty-one others, and was wounded at Bluntsville, October 14, 1863. Mr. Hager's great-grandfather, grandfather and a son are all named Phillip. Rev. Phillip Hager and his wife both united with the Baptist Church in 1868, and he was licensed to preach in 1872, and in 1873 was ordained an older, which position he now fills. He is also a farmer in Carroll district, and received his mail at Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:41:37 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: The Settlement of Charleston, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. SETTLEMENT AT CHARLESTON In 1772, Lord Dunmore gave Major Thomas Bullitt a patent for a large tract of land on the Great Kanawha river, including the present site of Charleston, for his valuable services as an officer in Braddock's war. This survey began in the upper end of the bottom, about two miles above the mouth of Elk river, and extended down the Valley as far as the mouth of Tyler creek, four miles below Elk. Major Bullitt did not settle upon the land himself, nor did he ever even see it. In 1786 he met Mr. George Clendennin at Richmond, to whom he sold that portion of the tract on which the town of Charleston now stands. The deed was made to Mr. Clendennin in 1786 or 1787, before the formation of Kanawha county, and is on record in the Clerk's office of Greenbrier county, which then embraced this portion of Kanawha. The exact year that Mr. George Clendennin moved upon the land which he purchased from Mr. Bullitt is a matter of uncertainty. It seems to be generally admitted, however, that he was the first settler within the limits of the present city of Charleston, and that it was either in the fall of 1786 or spring of 1787 that he built the fort on the river bank near Brooks' landing, which took his name. This could not have been later than 1787, for the reason that Lewis Tackett settled at the mouth of Coal river during that year, and the year following his home was destroyed by the Shawnee Indians, and those members of his family who were not taken prisoners, fled to the Clendennin fort at Charleston for protection and safety. I must, therefore, conclude that Charleston was first settled by George Clendennin and family in 1786 or 1787. History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 53-54 ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:47:27 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <73a5b61d.25151c1f@aol.com> Subject: The First House in Charleston, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. THE FIRST HOUSE IN CHARLESTON Was built by Mr. George Clendennin, on the bank of the Kanawha river immediately in front of the present palatial residence of Charles C. Lewis, Esq., corner of Kanawha and Brooks streets, and was called the Clendennin fort, or "block-house." It was the only fort at that time between Fort Union, at Lewisburg, and the fort at Point Pleasant, except a small block-house at the mouth of Paint creek, twenty-three miles above Charleston. The Tackett fort at Coalsmouth was built the year following, as stated in a preceding chapter. The Clendennin fort was a two-story double-log building, and was bullet and arrow proof. It was built out of large hewed logs, was about forty feet long by thirty feet in width, and stood for nearly a hundred years. It was torn down by Mr. Lewis, in 1874, to make room for the elegant brick mansion in which he now resides. Mr. H. S. Brace, a resident gun-smith, procured a cut from one of the large logs of the fort, when it was demolished, out of which he made a handsome cane, which he kindly presented to the writer as a token of those days of frontier life. History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 54 ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:37:15 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <6a47a149.251527cb@aol.com> Subject: Charleston becomes a town Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. Incorporating the Town The Act of the Legislature of Virginia incorporating Charleston as a town, was passed December 19, 1794, and is in the language following, taken ftom Henning's Statutes: "That forty acres of land, the property of George Clendennin, at the mouth of Elk river, in the county of Kenhawa, as the same are already laid off into lots and streets, shall be established a town by the name of Charlestown. And Reuben Slaughter, Andrew Donnally, Sr., William Clendennin, John Morris, Sr., Leonard Morris, George Alderson, Abraham Baker, John Young and William Morris, gentlemen, are appointed Trustees.'' The name was originally "Charlestown," which was changed some years afterwards for reasons not now known. The name was suggested by George Clendennin, in honor of his brother Charles, who came to the Kanawha Valley with his elder brother in 1786, and became one of Charleston's most exemplary, distinguished and useful citizens. History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 56 ______________________________X-Message: #10 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:55:13 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO James and Andrew Ruffner, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. James and Andrew Ruffner were twin brothers, born in Charleston, December 5, 1807. Andrew was a bachelor, and died at the residence of his father at Fairfield, Ohio, in i86o. James lived on the old homestead, where Silas Ruffner now resides, two miles above Charleston, until 1860, when he abandoned farming and moved to Charleston. In 1826 he married Miss Martha Morton, of Greenup, Kentucky. They had four children, two sons, Meredith P. and Andrew L., who are now engaged in the grocery business in Charleston, and two daughters, one of whom died at the age of seven years, and the other married W H. Hogeman, Esq., a prominent member of the Charleston bar. Mr. Ruffner spent the greater portion of his life on a farm, but for several years, in partnership with two or three of his brothers, he was engaged in the manufacture of salt. He was a good business man, and succeeded in all of his undertakings. He was strictly honest, and never failed to meet any and all of his obligations. He died in Charleston, February 6, 1867, and was mourned by many relatives and friends. The History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 309 ______________________________X-Message: #11 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:58:52 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <12938d7c.25152cdc@aol.com> Subject: BIO Adam Aultz, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. ADAM AULTZ Adam Aultz was among the early settlers of Kanawha county. He was born in the eastern portion of the State, and about sixty years ago came to Kanawha county and located on the State road leading from the Kanawha river across the country to Pocatalico river, about midway between the two rivers. He opened up a beautiful farm, which he cultivated in good style, and upon which he resided until the time of his death, which occurred March 17, 1868. He was a good citizen, and an honest man; and left behind him many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. At the time of his death, he was upwards of eighty years of age. His heirs reside upon the old homestead, and, like their father, are good citizens, and are well-to-do in worldly estate. The History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 309 ______________________________X-Message: #12 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:34:55 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <487d02a7.2515354f@aol.com> Subject: BIO Isaac Comer, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. ISAAC COMER, justice of the peace and representative citizen of Poca district, Kanawha county, W. Va., resides on his farm of forty-nine acres, situated fifteen miles north of Charleston. He was born in Poca district, December 29, 1846, and is a son of George W. and Matilda A. (Miller) Comer. George W. Comer was a native of Kanawba county as was also his wife. He served as a soldier in Co. A, W. Va. Cav., during the Civil War and at one time during his service was slightly wounded. He was a republican in politics but never accepted any office, living a quiet, useful life on his farm, where he died at the age of seventy-eight years, his wife passing away in her sixty-eighth year. They were members of the Adventist church and their burial was in Sigman Cemetery. Twelve children were born to George W. Comer and his wife, three of whom survive. namely: Isaac, Frances E. and Lydia C. Isaac Comer had only public school advantages in his youth and at different times at-tended in Poca district. He was little more than a boy when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of Co. E, i3th W. Va. Volunteer Infantry. After the ter-mination of the war he returned to Poca dis-trict and engaged in farming and after his marriage located on his present property, which at that time contained but thirty-five acres. He purchased sixteen additional acres at a later date and has all but two acres under a fine state of cultivation. He has been a pu~ lic official here for a long time, having served for twenty-two years as postmaster at Legg, the mail delivery being three times a week. He is a republican in politics and for twenty years has been a justice of the peace. Mr. Comer was married in i866, to Miss Nancy J. Iman, a daughter of Jacob Iman, of Kanawba county, and twelve children have been born to them, namely: George H., who lives near Sissonville, W. Va.; Mary E., who is the wife of James A. Young, of Poca district; John W., who died when aged three years; Rachel A., who is deceased; and Bettie M., Jesse P., Sarah E., Barbara, Jennie E., Benjamin I. and Florence, the last mentioned being deceased. History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia, W.S. Laidley, 1911, p. 764 ______________________________X-Message: #13 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:53:27 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <33911224.251539a7@aol.com> Subject: BIO Robert Lee Massey, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This information may be freely copied and distributed to any genealogy site or genalogical organization. ROBERT LEE MASSEY, who is engaged in business at Big Chimney, Kanawha County, W. Va., as a miller and wholesale feed merchant, was born in Ral-eigh County, W. Va., September 5, 1879, and is a son of George W. and Lydia (Acord) Massey. William Massey, the great-grandfather of Robert Lee Massey, was born in Virginia and moved, during the Civil War, to Raleigh County, where he died in 1885, in advanced age. He reared a large family and his eldest son, Steel Massey, was the grand-father of R. L. Massey, and he, like his father, spent his life in the pursuits of agriculture. He married Caroline Cantley, a native like himself, of Raleigh County and they had the following children born to them: George W., Henry and Mary, Henry being the only survivor. George W. Massey was born in Raleigh County, in 1851, spent his life in the same neighborhood and there his death occurred in November, 1895. He was a farmer and was the owner of considerable land which is still retained by his family. He was quite prominent for many years in local politics and was noted for his generous hospitality, keeping up many of the old customs which are particularly southern in character. He married Miss Lydia Acord, a native of Charleston, W. Va., and to them the following children were born: Romanza, who is the wife of Louis H. Pettry, of Raleigh County; L. Christopher, who is county clerk of Kanawha County; Robert L. and Mary J., twins, the latter of whom is the wife of Robert A. Hopkins, of Summers County, W. Va.; Laura B., who is the wife of R. L. Williams, of Masseyville; Calvin W., who is postmaster at Masseyville; Virginia A.,, who resides with her mother, at Masseyville; and Ettie, who died in childhood. Mrs. Massey married for her second husband, William G. Daniels, a member of one of the old and substantial families of Raleigh County. Robert Lee Massey attended school until he was fourteen years of age when he fell a victim to an epidemic of typhoid fever that swept through this section and caused the death of his father. His recovery was slow and he did not return to school. His first work was done as a clerk for the Blackland Coal Company, with which corporation he continued for four years, after which, for one year, he was associated with his brother in the Cabin Creek Mercantile Company, in Cabin Creek District, and then went back to Masseyville, where he engaged in a gen-eral store business. Two years later his stock was destroyed by fire and he then turned his attention in another direction, in 1910 coming to Big Chimney where, in partnership with Grant Copenhaven, he is doing a large flour and feed business, under the firm name of Copenhaven & Massey. They have a well equipped plant situated on the Elk River, and use all kinds of modern machinery in producing their first class products. Although the business is a comparatively new one, great progress has been made and the future looks bright for the firm. Mr. Massey was married first, on February i8, 1902, to Miss Lucy Snodgrass, who died August 1,1906, aged twenty years, five months and twenty days. She was a daughter of C. F. and Mary (George) Snodgrass, natives of Virginia, who now reside near Charleston. Mr. Snodgrass was formerly a mine superintendent and is now engaged in farming. One child was born to the above marriage, Arizona, who is now six years old. Mrs. Massey was a lady of beautiful character, a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was beloved by all who knew her. Mr. Massey was married secondly to Miss T.A. Pringle, who was born in West Virginia, June 20, 1889, and is a daughter of F. E. and Mary (Puckett) Pringle, the for-mer of whom, now deceased, was formerly a teacher of penmanship at Ravenswood. Mrs. Massey was reared by her grandparents, John and Sarah (Stainer) Puckett, the former of whom is an old Civil War veteran, and has reached his ninety-third year. Mrs. Massey was carefully educated and is a graduate of the Ripley School and prior to her marriage, taught one term of sch~ in Marsh Fork District, Raleigh County. Mr. and Mrs. Massey have one child, Chelya Vaughne. Politically he is an active worker in the Republican party but has never de-sired office for himself. He is identified fraternally with the Odd Fellows at Spring Hill, and the Red Men at Dungriff, W. Va. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia, W.S. Laidley, 1911, p. 446-447 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ***********************************************************************