Person:Unknown Massey (7)

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unknown child MASSEY
m. 18 Feb 1867
  1. Sarah E. "Lizzie" MASSEYAbt 1867 - Bef 1918
  2. Joseph Mark "Joe" MASSEY1871 - Bef 1955
  3. John W. MASSEY1875 - Bef 1951
  4. Elmira MASSEY1877 - 1885
  5. Isaac Z. "Zeb" MASSEY1880 - Bef 1951
  6. Benjamin MASSEY1883 - 1884
  7. unknown child MASSEY1885 - 1885
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Name unknown child MASSEY
Gender Female
Birth? 1885 Gridley, Coffey Co., KS
Death? 1885 Gridley, Coffey Co., KS
Reference Number 3523

1885 April 12, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane Love: "I cam hear 2 weeks a go . . . I have seen all of them but one Caroline Massey . . . they Buried one of the children to day a little girl . . . they also have a Baby with a Big head* / they have 5 children left"

  • The baby may have been born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain).

1885 July 12, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "there are 5 [Massey] children of them and the baby not right makes it Bad"

1885 Aug. 23, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "that Big headed Baby that I told you about is dead and the mother is going / has consumption and some say dropsy / he [Isaac Massey] is havg Plenty of trouble"