Thank you all for the help. I tried looking in Texas last night and found John Massey as a fourteen yr. old as a laborer in the home of G.W. Sowell.He was in Freestone Co.,Tx.1870 census then found him, I believe again in 1880 in Morris Co.,Tx. as a hirling living in another household. This is a very good match as I found my great grandmother in Morris Co. on the 1920 census. John Holland Massey died in Feb. 1910 before the census was taken and the great grandmom moved to Texarkana then disappeared before 1920.It has taken me seven yrs to find her again. But I believe I may be onto something concrete now. Anna