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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



MASSIE, THOMAS, was born Dec. 26, 1759, in Albemarle county, Va. He was a Revolutionary soldier, for which he drew a pension near the close of his life. He went to Kentucky after the Revolution, and there became personally acquainted with Simon Kenton, one of the associates of Daniel Boone in the early settlement of Kentucky. Thomas Massie was married to Fanny Hudson, either in Kentucky or Virginia. They had four children, none of whom ever came to Sangamon county. Mrs. Fanny Massie died in Kentucky, and Thomas Massie married Rebecca Collyer, a native of Virginia, also. They had eight children, all born in Montgomery county, Ky., and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1828, in what is now Curran township. Of their eight children--

ABSALOM, born in Kentucky, married in Tennessee, and died there.

JOHN C., born Aug. 11, 1795, in Kentucky, married Aug. 13, 1815, in Tennessee, to Elizabeth Freeman. He moved to Sangamon county soon after his father, in 1828, and after a stay of five or six years, moved to Pike county, Ill., where Mrs. Massie died. Mr. Massie married again, and died there. His son, MELVIN MASSIE, was a Representative from Pike county, to the Legislature of 1873.

HUDSON, remained in Kentucky.

SYLVANUS, born Sept. 12, 1799, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Aug. 11, 1829, to Sarah Maltby, and had seven children. He died, June 28, 1856, and his widow lives in Gardner township, Sangamon county.

FRANCES J., born June 25, 1802, married Wm. Ralston, Jun. See his name.

THOMAS, Jun., born in Kentucky, was educated as a physician, and died, unmarried, in Tennessee.

JESSE E., born in Kentucky, in 1810, is unmarried, and lives in Gardner township.

MARTHA, born Feb. 1, 1813, in Kentucky, married, July 14, 1829, to Thomas Morgan. See his name.

Thomas Massie, Sen., died, Aug. 19, 1835, and Mrs. Rebecca Massie died Sept. 7, 1835, both in Sangamon county.



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