Massey
Cemetery
Location: From Highway 59 at Leggett, Texas, take a FM 942 East approximately 14 miles to Massey Cemetery Road, take a left .6 mile, and the cemetery is on the right hand side of the road, there is a fence around the cemetery, however as you turn into the road to the cemetery there are also graves on the left hand side of the road.
Surveyed by the Leggett High School Gifted and Talented Students as part of a community service project. Date of survey was November 17, 1999. Contact these students at [email protected] for information on this project. The Gifted and Talented Coordinators at Leggett ISD are Carolyn Willson and Angela Black.
Graves outside the fenced area:
1. Warren Glover
PFC US Army
World War II
April 25, 1922
June 23, 1991
(Military marker)
2. Mathew Wade Glover
December 8, 1967
May 25, 1994
3. Ronald Gene Glover
July 9, 1960
January 26, 1996
Inside fenced area:
4. Laura Massey
August 10, 1863
February 18, 1910
5. Grave right side of Laura Massey
Tombstone is badly damaged and
Has not been identified at this time.
6. Jack B. Tompkins
May 13, 1907
August 13, 1997
(Funeral home marker from Earthman Funeral Home; Baytown, Texas)
7. Thebie Massey Tompkins
March 20, 1907
November 16, 1987
Wife of Jack B. Tompkins
Daughter of Laura Lamb Massey
Rest here in the land of her birth