Labon Silas Massey

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The following was given by descendants of Silas Massey (1996) Silas was over 7' tall and weighed around 500 pounds. He was devilish and full of life. he was a great swimmer. He was quite wealthy he owned over 100 slaves. During the war he had 2 large chests of gold. He took 2 of his trusted slaves, placed the gold in large wash pots, covered in the gold in with lard, took the slaves in the collar and showed them how to remove the planks and placed pots down there. when the raiders came, at gun point they made the slaves tell where the gold was buried. One of them became so excited he told them is under the lard in pots, which they found. Along with Gold, the raiders took all of his fine saddle horses. It is said he over $10,000 in gold and about 70 years ago family made an effort to no avail t make the Federal Government repay them, but could produce no proof.

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   Title: Burriss Family Genealogy

   Author: Burriss Family history Committee

   Publication: Seven volumes, over 900 pages of information.

   Note: Committee members were: Chairman, Edward F. Hillhouse, Charles Welborn, Miss Susie Burriss, Charles Welborn, Jr. Esq., Miss Annie Frances Blackman, Mrs maude Burriss johnston, Mrs. Olin McGill, James F. McCurry, and Mrs. Clifford G. Burriss, Jr.

   Note: Excellent

   Repository:

   Note: Anderson County Library, Anderson, South Carolina

   Media: Book

   Page: Volume V, pg 610

   Text: Silas Massey was over seven feet tall and weighed around 500 pounds. he was devilish and full of life. He was a great swimmer and often would go down to the Massey Shoals on Generostee Creek, push away the logs used to walk across on, and when people would come to cross on their way "a-courting," he would tell them he would carry them across. About half way across he would stumble and let then fall in the water...just for the fun of it.

   He was quite wealthy owing over 100 slaves. During the war he had two large chests of gold. He took two of his trusted slaves, placed the gold in large wash pots, covered the gold with lard, took the slaves in the clllar and showed them how to remove the plank, and placed the pots of gold down there. When the raiders came, at gun point, they made the slaves tell where the gold was buried. OPn of them became so excited he told them it was under the lard in the pots which they had found.

   Along with the gold, the raders took all of his fine saddle horses. it is said he had over $10,000 in gold, and about seventy years ago some of the family made an effort, to no avail, to make the Federal government repay them, but could produce no proof.

   A descendant (now, 1967) has the wash pot in which the gold was hidden. She lives in Hona Path, SC

   The above data given by descendants of Silas Massey (1966)

   Title: 1860 United States Federal Census

   Author: Ancestry.com

   Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004

   Note: United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860

   Repository:

   Note: www.ancestry.com

   Media: Ancestry.com

   Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.M653, 1,438 rolls. Regiment 4, Anderson, South Carolina, post office Anderson, roll M653_1212, page 231, image 462.

   Title: 1820 United States Federal Census

   Author: Ancestry.com

   Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004

   Note: United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourth Census of the United States, 1820, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1820

   Repository:

   Note: www.ancestry.com

   Media: Ancestry.com

   Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1820.M33, 142 rolls. , Pendleton, South Carolina, roll M33_120, page 167, image 232.

   Title: 1830 United States Federal Census

   Author: Ancestry.com

   Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004

   Note: United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifth Census of the United States, 1830, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1830

   Repository:

   Note: www.ancestry.com

   Media: Ancestry.com

   Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1830.M19, 201 rolls. Not Stated, Anderson, South Carolina, roll 173, page 131, image 255.

   Title: Register Report

   Author: Catherine Venessa Price Harmon

   Note: All of the detailed information on the Children of Abraham Sargent & Rachael L. Boroughs I recieved from Catherine Venessa Price Harmon . Abraham & Rachael Sargent are Cathy's GGgrandparents. Cathy sent me a detailed register report in

   Feburary of 2005.

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   Media: Electronic 

Labon Massey BIRTH 1777 DEATH 1856 (aged 78–79) Anderson County, South Carolina, USA BURIAL Massey Family Cemetery Honea Path, Anderson County, South Carolina, USA MEMORIAL ID 137437153 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 4 Family Members Parents Photo Noel Posey Massey 1755–1828

Lucinda Freeman Massey 1756–1826

Spouse Mary Carpenter 1780–1816 (m. 1804)

Siblings Photo Anderson Posey Massey unknown–1863

Photo Silas Shaw Massey 1776–1876

Nancy Massey Braswell 1781–1876

Photo Zaney Massey Hunt 1785–1854

Photo Ansel Massey 1800–1879

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