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From: "Ron Massey" <>
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Jane Massey
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:56:33 -0500
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I have a copy of this will in my file.

Ron Massey
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From: "Mary Knight" <>
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Jane Massey


>
>
> William & Candace (don't know her maiden name) Massey. I got this from the
> Smith County Wills Index: William Massey's will (10/6/1854 signed,
February
> 1860 probated) lists his daughter as "Jane Oldham" (along with his other
> children).
>
> Candace EDWARDS
>
>
> Per Cal's Column Nov. 15, 1951
> "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, his mother married John Terry, 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."
>
> Mary K.
>
>
>
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