Need help with Elisha I
Hello to all the Massengale clan, wherever you may be.
I see from previous posts that it has been nearly 10 years since I last posted on this forum.
I have been in poor health the last few years, having had several heart attacks, and 2 heart-bypass operations, so I have not been in communications with a lot of people. I beg your forgiveness for being out of touch.
I am finally getting around to filling in the blanks on my family tree. My direct line of descent goes: Ethie Laura Massengale(mother), Joseph Earnest Massengale(gf), Elisha II Massengale(ggf), Wright Stokes Massengale(gggf) and Elisha I Massengale (ggggf).
I am stuck at Elisha I. In her wonderful book Fernie Cox says " After considerable research of birth, death and census records, it is the opinion of this author that Mathew was the father of Elisha Massengale I."
So my questions to this forum are:
1. Has anyone proved definitively that Mathew is the father of Elisha ?
2. Does anyone have information on Mathew such as date of birth, date of death, wife?
3. Does anyone know who Mathews father is, and information on them ?
There seems to be a cluster of Massengale who lived in Nash County, North Carolina around the time of the birth of Elisha I, in 1777, so I'm sure it can get a bit confusing. Any help on this would be appreciated. I am trying to connect the dots back to Daniel.
If anyone needs thisinformation about my mother, Ethie Laura Massengale, she died on Christmas day, 2000 in a nursing home in San Luis Obispo, California, and is buried in the cemetery in Arroyo Grande, California, where several of her daughters are also interred.
Thank you all for your help.
Gary Edward Jones,
Henderson,Nevada