Jeptha and Mary Massie's Civil War Records Marriage Book 1-2-3, page 14418 Nov 1841Lawrence County, OhioJeptha Massie and Mary Massie were married on 29 Nov. 1841. Jeptha served in the Ohio Infantry...
Greasy Ridge
Mysterious Disease in Greasy Ridge – 1848
Buchanan's Journal of Man, Vol. II, No. 5-November 1850Confessions of a Physician pages 153-155 A Singular and Fatal Disease Dr. C., of Lawrence County, Ohio, writes as follows: “In the month of...
Murder of Mary Young
On Sunday evening 12th inst., Mary Jane Young, a young unmarried woman died under such suspicious circumstances at Greasy Ridge in Lawrence County, Ohio that mention was made of the circumstances in the Gazette’s dispatches from Ironton, Ohio.
Thomas C. Tagg
Thomas C. Tagg was a native of England, born in Northampton shire, January 15, 1818. His parents, James and Rebecca Tagg, emigrated to America from the town of Kettering, Northampton shire, in 1840, with their family of eight children, five sons, and three daughters. They sailed from Liverpool
Mathilda Burcham
The Ironton Register of July 2, published at Ironton, Ohio, contained the subjoined article concerning the death of Mrs. Mathilda Burcham, grandmother of Mr. Louis Burcham who is situated at Wilbert in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The obituary was handed a representative of the South by Mr. E.B. McCorkle who was born and raised in the same county as was Mr. Burcham, but didn’t meet him until they both came to Louisiana.
Squire Massie
Squire Massie and Rebecca Carnes were married on May 8, 1845. He was born on April 22, 1822, and she August 26, 1824. The following comprise their children:
Patten Massie
Patten Massie came to this county with his parents on the 25th of December, 1830. They settled on a farm of eighty acres. Patten lived with his parents until he was 22 years of age, and helped improve their land.
Joseph Massie
Joseph Massie was born in Monroe County, Virginia; his parents are Jonathan and Mary (Goare) Massie, who settled in this county, on December 25, 1830.
Murder of Dr. Clark on Greasy Ridge
As I now write you, I am sitting up, watching the corpse of Dr. Clark, who was killed to-day by the rebels. We were waiting for the mail this morning up
Greasy Ridge, Ohio
There is a school over on the Greasy Ridge, in Lawrence county, in which there are forty pupils, thirty-three of whom are named Massie.