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    1. [MASSEY-L] Massey Family/Pike Co, MS 1830/1840
    2. Melinda Strong
    3. IGI Records show that Una Carter married Amaziah Vardeman in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana in 1815. She was 22 year old. They apparently later moved North to Mississippi, as this is where their daughters were born. I believe Amaziah and Una lived in Pike County, MS at the time of the 1820 census. This agrees to the microfilm. They had three daughters, Mary Etta "Polly" b ca 1820, Ann b ca 1824, Jemimah Amazia b ca 1825. Am. Vardemon (Indexed as Vardemore) The household composition is shown as 1 male 16-26 and one male 26 to 45 1 female under 10, one female 26 to 45 Neither Am. or Una Vardeman (any spelling) can be located in the 1830 census index. I haven't yet read the actual microfilm. It appears that sometime before the 1840 Pike County, MS, Census, Una is remarried to a Mr. MASSEY. UNY MASSY can be found in Pike County, Mississippi in 1840 (Microfilm #704). Ronald Vern Jackson's index to this census references Massey, Urey* page 152. It appears that the reference should have been to pg 297, which is what is actually stamped at the top of the microfilm as a guide. The census listing indicates it was a household made up entirely of females. There was one female between the ages of 10-15, two between ages 15 and 20, one between 20 and 30, and one between 40 and 50. Living with them as well was a female slave, who was somewhere between 26 and 56 years of age. It appears that Una might have actually had four daughters, and not just the three currently listed. Una's oldest known daughter, Polly, became 20 years old in 1840. Her youngest known daughter, Jemimah, reached age 15 the same year. This means that either of them might have been classified into two age categories. Therefore gauging the age of a fourth daughter is especially difficult. She could have been born prior to Polly, or after Jemimah. She might even have been a daughter by Una's second husband, Mr. Massey. She also might have been a cousin or niece. There is, however, an A. Vardeman in Adams County, Mississippi in 1840, on page 31. This microfilm should be examined as well. It is most likely a different person entirely. However, it might be that he and Una divorced, and that he moved to Adams County without her. At the time of the 1850 Sabine Parish Louisiana, Una was living alone in dwelling #304, between her daughters Jemimah Amazia Vardeman White and Ann Vardeman White. She is listed in the transcription of the Sabine Parish census prepared by Kathy Casagranda as Unas Massa age 57, M (sic), born in Louisiana. On the 1860 Sabine County Census, she is living with her daughter Jimimah, and son in law John Reagan White (Household 118). This is next door to Henry Strickland White and his wife Mary Etta Vardeman. On that transcription, she is shown as Una Massa, age 66, F, born North Carolina. Per the book 1860 CENSUS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS WITH CIVIL WAR RECORDS by Helen Gomer Schluter, her last name was actually Massey. Does anyone which Massey she may have married? Or who a fourth daughter might be?

    07/11/2001 03:59:24