MASSIE
Massie Cheshire. The family of Massie, settled at Coddington county,
Cheshire, in consequence of the marriage of Hugh Massie with Agnes,
daughter and heiress of Nicholas Bold, and his son William by the said
Agnes purchased with other manors that of Coddington in the reign of
Henry, VI. This William married Alice, daughter and heiress of Adam
Woton, of Edgerly, and the family subsequently intermarried with that
of Grosvenor, of Eaton. The celebrated General Massie so distinguished
during the Civil Wars, was the son of John Massie, of Coddington, by
Anne Grosvenor, of Eaton. The present representative is the Rev.
Richard Massie, of Coddington. Arms —Quarterly gu. and or — in the
1st & 4th quarters three fleurs de-lis ar, for difference a Canton ar.
Crest — A demi-pegasus with wings displayed quarterly or and gu.
Massie Quarterly az and ar. on the 1st and 4th a millet, Or. Crest — A
horned Owl ppr. Massie Ar a pile, quarterly gu and or in the field
quarter a lion pass off the field. Crest — Between two trees a lion salient
ar.—[Encyclopædia of Heraldry of England, Scotland and Ireland,
by John Burke.]
The first representatives of the family in America were Major Thomas
Massie and William, his brother, who settled in New Kent county, in
the Colony of Virginia. Thence Major Thomas Massie moved to Frederick
county, and afterwards settled in Nelson county, where he owned
large estates on Tye river and about the head waters of Rockfish
river. For his services in the War of the Revolution he received a grant
from the Government of valuable lands in Scioto Valley, Ohio, near the
present city of Chillicothe. He married Sally Cocke, and spent the remaining
years of his life in retirement at his seat, known as "Level
Green," in Nelson county. The issue of this marriage were three sons:
Thomas, William and Henry.
Dr. Thomas Massie, the eldest son, married [1] Lucy Waller, by whom
he had two sons, [i] Waller, [ii] Patrick, and two daughters, one of
whom married — Boyd, and the other of whom married Wm. O.
Goode. His second wife was [2] Sally Cabell; by whom he had one son,
Paul. Waller Massie, eldest son of Dr. Thos Massie, married Mary
James of Chillicothe, Ohio, by whom he had issue [1] Gertrude Waller
Massie, [2] Thomas Massie, recently deceased without issue. Patrick
Massie, second son of Dr. Thomas Massie, married Susan Withers, by
whom he had issue. [1] Robert, [2] Patrick C., [3] Thomas, [4] Thornton,
[5] Withers, [6] —, [7] Susan.
William Massie, second son of Major Thomas Massie, was married —
times. His eldest son was Col. Thos. J. Massie, of Nelson, lately
deceased without issue. His daughter, Florence, married [1] —
Tustall, son of Whitmell P. Tunstall, [2] Judge Jno. D. Horsley,
of Nelson.
Henry Massie, of Falling Springs Valley, Alleghany county, Virginia,
third son of Major Thomas Massie, married [1] Susan Preston Lewis,
October 22nd, 1810, daughter of John Lewis of the Sweet Springs, and
Mary Preston, daughter of Capt. William Preston of Smithfield, Montgomery
county, [2] Elizabeth Daggs, May 18th, 1826, the daughter of
Hezekiah and Margaret. The issue of said Henry Massie by his first
wife, Susan Preston Lewis, were: [1] Sarah Cocke, who married Rev.
Franck Stanley and died without issue on March 30, 1879. [2] Mary
Preston, born September 26, 1813, married John Hampden Pleasants,
December 15, 1829, and died April 18, 1837, leaving issue. [i] James
Pleasants, [ii] Ann Eliza, who married Douglas H. Gordon, [iii] Mary
Lewis, who died in infancy. [3] Henry Massie, Jr. [4] Eugenia S.,
born February 19, 1819, married Samuel Gatewood, and died October,
1884, leaving issue. [5] Thomas Eugene Massie. [6] Susan Lewis,
who died in infancy. Said Henry Massie died in January, 1841; and
Susan Preston, his wife, died November 22, 1825, in the thirty-third
year of her age. Said Henry Massie had by his second wife, Elizabeth,
one son, Hezekiah, now living in Falling Spring Valley on his paternal
estate.
Henry Massie, jr., oldest son of Henry Massie and Susan Preston Lewis,
was born July 4, 1816, married Susan Elizabeth Smith, March 23,
1841, daughter of Thos. B. Smith of Savannah, Georgia, and Caroline
Sophia Rebecca Thomson, his wife, who was the daughter of William
Russell Thomson, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was the son of
Col. Wm. R. Thomson, born 1729, died 1796, who was the son of William
Thomson (of the family of James Thomson, the English poet),
and the founder of the family in America. The issue of said Henry
Massie, jr., and his wife Susan, who was born February 5th, 1822, and
died November 25th, 1887, were: [1] Henry Lewis Massie, born May 12,
1842, died October 5, 1887, unmarried. [2] Caroline Thomson, born
December 16, 1845, and married November 8, 1865, to James Pleasants.
[3] Lulie, born June 15, 1849, died May 7, 1878. [4] Thomas Smith
Massie, born August 15, 1850, died Sept. 17, 1863. [5] William Russell
Massie, born February 24, 1852, now living in Richmond, Virginia.
[6] Susan Elizabeth, born February 2, 1855, died January 10, 1869. [7]
Charles Philip Massie, born November 15, 1857, died October 31, 1863.
[8] Eugene Carter Massie, born May 27, 1861, now practising law in
Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Thomas Eugene Massie, second son of Henry Massie and Susan
Preston Lewis, was born April 22, 1822, married in 1858 Mary James
Massie, the widow of Waller Massie, and died in 1863, leaving issue:
[1] Frank Aubrey Massie, now practising law in Charlottesville, Virginia.
[2] Eugenia Massie, who married Oscar Underwood of Kentucky,
now living in Birmingham, Alabama. [3] Juanita Massie.
