> Anna wrote: >> Fellow Searchers, is there anyone with knowledge of the decendants of > Jobe Massey in 1860 Newton County, Ms.>> As Donna Dixon has pointed out, the ancestry.com index 1860 index shows a JOHN Massey 60 in Newton Co., but no Jobe Massey. The entry is or should have been JOBE Massey . The household just before Jobe is indexed as "Austin Nessey" - almost certain;y should have been MASSEY (see later in this post.) The Jobe in 1860 could be either the Jobe in 1850 Attala Co., MS or he Jobe in 1850 LaFayette Co., MS. The Jobe of interest was probably son of an Avery Massey and was almost certainly descended from the Quakers Thomas Massey and Phoebe Taylor of Chester Co., PA. This branch of Masseys is covered in Chapter 6 of Judge Massey's MASSEY GENEALOGY ADDENDUM and is not closely related to our Charles City Co., VA branch - both branches appear to be from co. Chester, England. [Don't confuse the two CHESTER counties just referenced!] But I'm going in the wrong direction for Anna! We need to nail down which SON of Jobe Anna is from. Possible children of Jobe and Elizabeth [all born in AL] are: -Francis [1830/1], Anspence [1834/5], and Emily T. [1836/78] from the 1850 Attala Co., MS census -Asberry [1833/4], Augustine [1835/6], Emily J. [1837/8] from the 1850 Lafayette Co., MS census Some of these children should be in 1870 or 1880. The 1860 Newton Co., MS Austin Massey, could be either Anspence or Augustin. I have a feeling the two 1850 families must be the same one [with errors in both original tabulations] who may have moved during the year. We can check the enumeration dates on both censuses and see if there are two Jobes in an 1860 census. It should be possible to unravel this confusion - but not today! Regards to all, Theron Smith