RESEARCHING: MASSEY IN SC David T. Sutton; I hope you do not mind that I looked over your left shoulder at the message below. I am researching Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties, SC, for my ancestors - Phillip Massey, Arthur Massey, Elias Massey and John Massey b 1795. I am looking for a way to obtain cemetery listing for MASSEY for the above counties. Your help with the Masseys would be greatly appreciated. Ray Mack Camarillo, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "d t s" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [SCLANCAS] LANCASTER CO... : Gloria, : : Ref your message..."I have two books on the Cemetery Data from Lancaster : Co. - they are not complete - a third book was to be done, but never : printed. But I would be glad to search for a name...". : : Would you mind checking it for SUTTON. Especially, Edmon, Zachariah, : Mary and George. : : Thank you, : : David T. Sutton : Hendersonville, N.C. : [email protected] :

I checked my books from Lancaster, which aren't complete and my Kershaw Co. books. Sorry, no listings for the ones you need.

Louise - Thank you for that information. I will pick up a copy. I have been to Lancaster Library many, many times, about wore out that film machine there checking the old newspapers. The genealogy room is really great and I have even met other kin there from other states researching the same family! I have met the Stogners in Kershaw and their links were from Lancaster also. I think everyone in Lancaster is related to each other in one generation or another! Thanks for you help. Gloria Stogner Cook

No, sorry, but I haven't heard of him.

Lancaster Memorial Park was incorporated May 5, 1947 J. Reese Funderburk sold 102 55/100 acres, for $25,000. to Lancaster Memorial Park. .

Let me look this over for awhile and I will get back with you if I find a link. Thanks. Gloria

Gloria, I have not found any Suttons from Rock Hill, but haven't ruled any out at this point. Below is a short list of what I do know. --------------------- Zachariah Sutton, age 28 and wife, Mary Phillips Sutton, age 28 are both listed in the 1860 Lancaster County, S.C. census, with one child, Sarah Frances, age 5months. In the 1870 Lancaster Co. census, both are listed at age38, with children, Sarah Frances, age10, Eliza, age8, George Franklin, age6(my gf), Lucy, age3, and Sophronia Matilda, age 7months. The 1880 Kershaw Co. census, lists Mary Phillips Sutton, a widow, age48, with two children, George Franklin, age 16, and Sophronia Matilda, age 10. Sarah Frances later married George Washington Watts. Eliza later married James Hazelton Hopkins George Franklin later married (1) Anne Elizabeth Mathis, had children, George Edmund, Fannie Sutton Windham, Mamie Sutton Hopkins, Willie, Harrison Eugene, Anne Belle Sutton Windham, Lucille Sutton Windham, and Ansel. George Franklin, being a widower, m (2)Mary Elizabeth Fields, (my gm) in 1906. They had children, Annie Elizabeth Sutton Sinclair 1907-1996, Margaret (Mollie) Sutton, 1909-1910, Rosalee Sutton, 1910-1911, George Wilson Sutton, (my f), 1912-1993, Ruth Sutton, 1914-?, Lois Margaret Sutton Chavis, 1915-1977, Jack Richard Sutton, 1916-1993, Gladys Wiladel Sutton Bryant, 1918-1972, and John Henry, 1922-1925. Zachariah served with the 1st S.C. Volunteer Regiment, Co. D, during the Civil War. Have recently found information on the 1850 Lancaster, S.C. census, listing a Mrs. N. Reynolds, age 70, M. Sutton age50 female, S. Sutton age21 female, and a J.Sutton, age 19 male, at listing number 513. At #514 lived, E. Sutton, age 22 male, C. Sutton, age 20 female, and E. Sutton, age 6/12 male. I believe the M. Sutton, age50 female, is my gggmother, Mary Sutton. There is also a listing in the local paper of the Lancaster area, dated Oct 9, 1859, where P.T. Hammond, local atty, published an executor's notice indicating Zachariah Sutton, had applied for letters of administration on the estate of Mary Sutton, deceased. - -------------------------------------------- If any of this rings any bells with your SUTTONS...let me know. Thanks again for the cemetery information. David T. Sutton Hendersonville, N.C. [email protected]

Gloria and several others who have acquired about the availability of LANCASTER COUNTY�A PICTORIAL HISTORY. I called and "Yes" it is available at the following address: Chamber of Commerce P. O. Box 430 Lancaster, SC 29721 Pictorial History of Lanc. Co $29.63 + $5 in padded package You mentioned driving down for the copy, if you do the Chamber of Commerce is easy to find at 604 North Main Street (Hwy 521 as you go south from Pineville). The only word of caution is that the right hand side of the street looks residential and the Chamber headquarters are in a regular looking house (but there is a small sign out front). By the way, if you have not visited the Lancaster County Library they have two excellent collections of genealogy and local history that they call the Viola Floyd Collection and the Perry Belle Hough Collection. in the Viola Floyd Collection you will find mostly genealogy of Lancaster County families but some history which includes notes that extend beyond what was her published in her book, LANCASTER COUNTY TOURS. The Perry Belle Hough collection is more history (of which Lancaster County is especially rich having Andrew Jackson, William Richardson Davie, Gov. Stephen Decatur Miller (father of Mary Boykin Chesnut) and others along with such historical sites as Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, the Buford Massacre, Andrew Jackson State Park, Forty Acre Rock, the Battle of Hanging Rock, George Washington meeting with the Catawba Indians at Major Crawford's picnic, the Robert Mills' designed Courthouse and Jail (he also did the Washington Monument and the old US Treasury building), birthplace of Dr. James Marion Sims (father of gynecology), William Henry Belk, founder ofthe Belk stores chain, etc. But Mrs. Hough did much genealogical work� 30 boxes according to my catalog of her work. However, the name Stogner is not listed in either inventory (neither is Pettus nor any other of my ancestral names). I think there were Stogners in Kershaw when I taught at KHS in 1947-48, my first year of teaching and I believe I taught several but cannot remember their first names-too many years ago and too many students (thousands) in the intervening years. Hope you enjoy the pictorial history. When originally printed Donning Publishing printed extra copies to send around to other counties across the nation as a model pictorial history in their attempt to sell their product. Martha Bishop (who was in charge of the pictures while I did the text really felt good about that, as did I, especially since it was our first venture when it came out in 1984). Louise Pettus ---------- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SCLANCAS] LANCASTER CO..Pictorial History >Date: Mon, May 15, 2000, 6:14 PM > >Louise - It is a pleasure to hear from you after all the work you have done >to further genealogy. It has been awhile - several years, so I assume that >was the first printing. How can I get a copy of the second printing? Do >they have it at the Chamber of Commerce? If so, I will make a special trip >down there. I am just in Charlotte. Thanks for straightening me out. Gloria > >PS - If you ever run into information on the Stogner family, I would >appreciate knowing about it. I am doing a book. I know it is so important >to preserve what we can of our families. > >My husband and I are good friends of Jack and Louise Pettus of Charlotte - >they have shown me the book you did on the Pettus family. > >Thanks again for your reply. Gloria Stogner Cook >

Hi Gloria, My ggrandfather, John COOK (appox. dates (1860-1910) was born in CAMDEN, SC. He served as a sheriff on NC/TN border towns. I have the name of his wife and siblings. Have you ever heard of ol' John? Any information will be deeply appreciated. All the best, Dawn NC: BURTON; COOK; DALTON; GENTRY & MILLSAP. SC; BRUNSON; COOK; FAWKE; GEORGE & STEWART.

I do not remember the name of the person who called me about Hancock's Chapel (an early Methodist chapel visited by Bishop Francis Asbury). For that person and any others who are interested, here is a primary source: Reminiscences of Rev. Henry Boehm (Boehm, Henry. Reminiscences Historical and Biographical of Sixty-Four years in the Ministry. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1865. Copied from microfilm copy on interlibrary loan from UNC-Wilmington.) P. 266: On Tuesday, November 21 [1809], we stayed with William Gassaway, a noble old preacher, universally esteemed. He joined as early as 1788. He was William Capers's first colleague. We had a very severe snow-storm. It was cold and chilly and we reached Waxsaw and put up with Robert Hancock. Almost every prominent Methodist man had a meeting-house named after him; so we had a "Hancock Chapel." On Saturday I preached in this chapel on John xiii, 35, and Brother William Capers followed with a charming exhortation. The bishop [Francis Asbury] preached the next day in the chapel. 'The next day on the south side of the Catawba River, piloted by Brother William Capers, who is a promising young man of about twenty.' So I wrote over fifty years ago. We had a delightful interview with Capers at Robert Hancock's, as well as the privilege of traveling with him many days. William Capers in his autobiography (pp. 113-115) has described what took place at Robert Hancock's and made such honorable mention of Bishop Asbury and his traveling companion that I transcribe it for my work now the writer in his grave: 'At the close of the year 1809 Bishop Asbury passed through my circuit on his way to conference, and it was agreed for me to meet him at Waxsaw (General Jackson's birthplace), and attend him along a somewhat circuitous route to Camden. I met him at the house of that most estimable man and worthy local preacher, Robert Hancock, who had been more than a friend to me, even a father, from the beginning. The bishop was then accompanied by the Rev. Henry Boehm as his traveling companion. . . .This was the last of my itinerant year on the Wateree Circuit; and as I have had quite enough of the disagreeable in my account of it, I will end the chapter with an anecdote of my first night and last night on the trip with the bishop. I met him when a heavy snow had just fallen, and the north-west wind blowing hard made it extremely cold. The snow had not been expected, and our host was out of wood, so that we had to use what had been picked up from under the snow, and was damp and incombustible. Our bed-room was aloft, with a fireplace in it, and plenty of wood; but how to make the wood burn was the question. I had been at work blowing and blowing long before bed-time; till to my mortification, the aged bishop came up, and there was still no fire to warm him. '"O Billy, sugar,'" said he as he approached the fireplace, '"never mind it; give it up; we will get warm in bed. And then stepping to his bed as if to ascertain the certain of it, and lifting the bed-clothes, he continuted, "'Yes, yes, give it up, sugar; blankets are plenty.'" So I gave it up, thinking the play of my pretty strong lungs might disturb his devotions, for he was instantly on his knees. 'Well, thought I, this is too bad. But how for the morning? Bishop Asbury rises at four - two hours before day - and what shall I do for a fire then? No light wood and nothing dry. But it occurred to me the coals put in the midst of the simmering wood might dry it sufficiently to keep fire and prepare it for kindling in the morning; so I gave it up. But then how might I be sure of waking early enough to kindle a fire at four o'clock? My usual hour had been six. And to meet this difficulty I concluded to wrap myself in my overcoat, and lie on the bed without disturbing the bed clothes. In this predicament I was not likely to over sleep myself on so cold a night; but there might be danger of my not knowing which hour it was when I happened to awake. Nap after nap was dreamed away as I lay shivering in the cold, till I thought it must be four o'clock; and then creeping softly to the chimney, and applying the breath of my live bellows, I held my watch to the reluctant coals to see the hour. I had just made it out, when the same soft accents saluted me: '" Go to bed, sugar, it is hardly three o'clock yet.' "This may do for the first night, and the last was as follows: It had rained heavily through the night, and we slept near enough to the shingles for the benefit of the composing power of the pattering upon them. It was past four o'clock and the bishop was away, but 'Billy Sugar' lay fast asleep; so he whispered to Brother Boehm to not disturb me, and the fire was made. They were dressed, had had their devotions, and were at their books before I was awake. This seemed shockingly out of order, and my confusion was complete as, waking and springing out of bed, I saw them sitting before a blazing fire. I could scarcely say good-morning and the bishop, as if he might have been offended by my neglect, pretended not to hear it. Boehm, who knew him better, smiled pleasantly as I whispered in his ear, "Why didn't you wake me?" The bishop seemed to hear this, and closing his book and turning to be with a look of downright mischief, had an anecdote for me. '"I was traveling,"" said he, '" quite lately, and came to a circuit where we had one of our good boys. O he was so good! and the was weather was as cold as it was the other night at Brother Hancock's, and as I was Bishop Asbury, he got up in the bitter cold at three o'clock to make a fire for me; and what do you think? He slept last night till six.'" And he tickled at it as if he might have been a boy himself. And this was that Bishop Asbury whom I have heard called austere, a man confessedly who never shed a tear who seldom laughed. . ."

Can anyone tell me the stats on Lancaster Memorial Park? How old is it and where would I find the internment information. Thanks, Frances

Gloria, Thanks for the look-up. Believe they may be relatives. Going to check the Mason records too and visit the grave site, the next time I'm down that way. David T. Sutton Hendersonville, N.C. [email protected]

Were any of your Suttons from around Rock Hill, York Co., SC? My grandmother's sister was Ruth Threatt of the Kershaw Co., SC Threatts. She married a Sutton, can't remember his name at this time, but his father was Richard Sutton, and he was from TN or his father was from TN. Any of that familiar?

Sorry - None of these were listed.

Louise - It is a pleasure to hear from you after all the work you have done to further genealogy. It has been awhile - several years, so I assume that was the first printing. How can I get a copy of the second printing? Do they have it at the Chamber of Commerce? If so, I will make a special trip down there. I am just in Charlotte. Thanks for straightening me out. Gloria PS - If you ever run into information on the Stogner family, I would appreciate knowing about it. I am doing a book. I know it is so important to preserve what we can of our families. My husband and I are good friends of Jack and Louise Pettus of Charlotte - they have shown me the book you did on the Pettus family. Thanks again for your reply. Gloria Stogner Cook

David - I have a Mary C. Sutton, 1905-1990, wife of Edward A. Sutton, 1893-1969, a Mason, both buried Lancaster Memorial Park, Lancaster Co., SC. That's all I found. Hope it helps you. Gloria

If that book can be found Louise Pettus might know where. You can reach her at [email protected] her brother sales hard to find books in Lancaster also. Good luck. Aileen

Carolyn, I don't have the names you gave...Sorry! Occasionally, a Massey has married into a branch of the Cook or Byrd line, but not the ones you asked about, and only a very few: Martha Jane Massey m. J.C. Cook (?) Massey m. M.A. Miller Mary E. Massey m. Geo. E. Killian Velma C. Massey m. Judson Davis Do you recognize any of these? This is all I have........Fran

In a message dated 05/13/2000 4:24:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I was recently there checking stones for my Cook and Bird families Fran, do you have a Joanna Cook md John Massey. Lancaster or Chesterfield County, SC Carolyn

Fran, I hate to bother you but could you tell me how to get to the MasseyCemetery leaving from Taxahaw. Thanks for the info....it makes my day. Ray Mack Camarillo, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 4:23 AM Subject: Re: [SCLANCAS] Researching Elias Massey b 1760 and John Massey bu 1795 : Ray, : : There's a "Massey Cemetery" down around Taxahaw that someone might check for : you. I was recently there checking stones for my Cook and Bird families and : noticed a number of "Masseys" however, I don't live in SC and don't know when : I'll get back. : : Good luck...........Fran :