| Section IV Massey Appendices | One Maryland Massey Family by George
Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010 |
| Benj. U. Massey Attorney at Law Springfield, Mo. |
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| Springfield, Mo., April 9,
1907 |
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| Dr. J. F. Snyder(1) |
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| Virginia, Ill. |
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| Dear Sir: |
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| I have your letter of the 3rd inst.
My sister, Mrs. Hough, a few days previous sent me your letter to her
asking a sketch of my father's life. |
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| In this letter to Mrs. Hough, you mention
your wife, nee Miss Anna Saunders of Bolivar, Mo. I remember her
very distinctly away back in 1852, and her father as well. I
believe Mr. Eberly Wilson of Sarcoxie was her uncle. The Saunders
family of Sarcoxie were quite intimate with our family. Mrs.
Amelia Saunders was particularly a friend of my mother's.
These children of the Sarcoxie Saunders were nearly all schoolmates of
mine. Tuck Saunders married a daughter of the late Judge Ritchie
of Newton Co., Mo. Capt. McAfee, a former law partner of Governor
Phelps and myself, and who yet abides in the land of the living and is
here in Springfield, married another daughter of Judge Ritchie, and I
have frequently met the children of Tuck Saunders while they were
visiting here. I think too, in ante-bellum days I frequently saw
your wife, then Miss Saunders, when she was a girl at Sarcoxie. |
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| The Wilson families at Boliver and at
Sarcoxie, and the Saunders families of the two towns visited together
quite often. |
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| In 1852 while going from Sarcoxie to
Boonville with my father to buy goods, we stopped for a day at Bolivar
at the house of Mr. Israel W. Davis and I remember seeing Miss Anna
Saunders, or think I do, on that occasion. While but natural, it
yet seems strange how the memory of one little incident awaken such a
train of recollections. |
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