Letter from New Mexico - Ed Massie

Source:  Hartford Republican 24 July 1908:

          Edmund (Ed) Massie was born in Ohio County, 16 April 1866/67, the son of Edmund D. Massie and Sarah Frances Westerfield; he died in Carrizozo, Lincoln County, New Mexico 21 Dec 1916.  Ed married Nora Ellen Clark about July 1905 in Ohio County.  The 1910 census says Nora is from Kentucky and was born about 1880.  I think that she was from Daviess County, KY, possibly Utica. The 1920 census says she is a teacher.  I think she stayed in New Mexico after Edmund’s death.  I did not find that they had any children.  There is data that shows a marriage between Nora E. Massie and Mr. Shirley Phipps in 1922 in El Paso, Texas. Social Security records affirm this marriage.  Mr. Phipps died in 1942 in Lincoln County, New Mexico and Nora died as Nora Ellen Phipps Oct 1963 in Clovis, New Mexico.