"Hardesty’s West Virginia Counties - Gilmer, Ritchie, Lincoln, Wayne"
Volume 7 - Page 178 - Published 1973
by Jim Comstock


George Massie - son of John and Emeline (Stewart) Massie, was born in Butler district, Wayne County, October 4, 1846. In Rockville, Kentucky, he married Sarah Frances, daughter of James H. and Susan (Buskirk) Clay. She was born in Butler district, Wayne County, March 11, 1854, and became his wife on the 2d of October, 1870. Five children are the sunshine of their home: Mary E., born September 13, 1871; Orpha M., January 21, 1874; Frederick, September 25, 1876; Morman, January 14, 1870; Columbia, August 10, 1881. The father of Mr. Massie was born July 4, 1826, at Burks Garden, Russell County, Virginia, and his mother was born in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His wife's father was born in Pocahontas County, (now) West Virginia, and her mother in Wayne County. Her mother died in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Massie have been exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifteen years. He has a farm in Butler district, and for the past six years has carried on the entire coal mining business at Hubbardstown, averaging about sixty-five thousand bushels per year. The Hubbardstown coal works are situated near the mouth of Big Hurricane, a tributary of Big Sandy River, eighteen miles from where it empties into the Ohio. There are five veins of the coal, the upper vein two feet in thickness, the second four feet, the third two and one-half feet, the fourth two feet, the fifth seven feet, all an excellent quality of coal. George Massie's postoffice address is Hubbardstown, Wayne County, West Virginia.