Dear Shirley, Thank you for sharing your Texas connections via Fauquier Co., Va. Its a small world sometimes.... If you need me to look anything up here in Texas, let me know. Sincerely, Rebecca Bashaw > I have thoroughly enjoyed the Texas entries about Fauquier Co, VA > families. > Yes, E W Wallace, there were others who participated in the Texas > Revolution. > > Previously, I never considered how many might have participated in the > Texas Revolution from Mexico. I knew several Mexican born folks > participated as well as those from the South. Many of the names from > Kentucky and Tennessee were originally Virginians. But from Fauquier Co, > did not occur to me. > > I'd like to share a discovery found about 2 years ago. Thanks to a Massie > cousin who answered a posting, a mystery in an old family Bible was > solved. > > Explanation: > Thomas Massie, b. abt 1742, VA + Mary "Molly" Morehead, VA, and lived in > Fauquier Co, VA. All their children were born in Fauquier. > Two of these children were: > 1) Thomas Massie, b. 1782 in Fauquier + 1st: Nancy Graham > + 2nd > Elizabeth > Rust. > ,, Had a family Bible. > .............Thos Massie & Elizabeth Rust had a son, Thomas > Benj. Rust Massie, b. 1822. > ,, He also had a family Bible. (Family Pages combined from both in > this Bible.) > 2) Samuel Massie, b. abt 1775 in Fauquier Co, + Ann 'Nancy' Dearing. > ................... Had several children; but only one was entered in the > family Bible of Thomas Massie, b. 1782. > > .................. An entry in the Bible of Thomas b. 1782, lists a John W > Massie, born 23 Oct 1807, son of Samuel Massie his father and Nancy his > mother. > > When another descendant of Samuel Massie saw my query, he wrote, giving us > the descendants of Samuel Massie. He had a family Bible with this same > John W Massie who had the same date of birth. > > Turns out the above John W Massie, b. 1807, had migrated to Texas and > fought in the Texas Rev. from Mexico. Below is a transcribed copy of a > letter shared with me from Bernice Clower, descendant of John W Massie / > Massey. > > QUOTE: > Mr J W Massey, > Sir > You are hereby appointed Quarter-Master of the > Detachment from Red River under command of Captain > E T Jackson, on arrival at Head Quarters you will > report yourself to General Rusk*, taking care that > no unnecessary waste of provisions takes place on > your journey and that no improssments (?) of horses > or provisions are made except such as are rendered > indespensabley necessary. > > I > am > sir > yours > ?the > Saml > > Houston > Com'd > in > Chief > END, > > There were other descendants of Samuel & Nancy (Dearing) Massie. All > migrated to Texas. > > Shirley Starks > > E W Wallace previously wrote: > There is a *genealogical connection* of Texas with Fauquier Co. -- at > least > one that I know about. There may have been others, as recruits came from > all > over, but mainly from the South to participate in the Texas Revolution > against Mexico. (This was not the Mexican War, which occurred after Texas > had > been admitted to the Union.) > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >