Charlotte Massa
1828 - 1899 (70 years)-
Name Charlotte Massa [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Birth 6 Dec 1828 White, Tennessee, USA 
[1, 4, 6] Gender Female Residence 1850 Wayne, Missouri, USA [1] District 101 Residence 1860 White, Tennessee, USA [4] District 7 Death 8 Jan 1899 White, Tennessee, USA Notes - BIOGRAPHY: Question answered by descendant, Cindy Montgomery Grossholz, in e-mail dated 8/15/2001: >You show the parents of Harvey Blackburn Montgomery to be "Hiram Spears and Charlotte
>Massa." I have assumed that the father was actually Hiram Spears Montgomery; if that is not true, then
>please let me know and clarify the name difference.
My great-great grandfather, Harvey Blackburn Montgomery was the son of Hiram Spears and Charlotte Massa.
Charlotte Massa married Leftwich Montgomery on 26 Oct 1846 in White County TN. (Source Bettie Goolsby
Doyle, a Massa Family researcher) According the 1850 Census, Leftwich Montgomery and Charlotte Massa are
living in MO with one child. In 1860 Charlotte Massa Montgomery is living in White County, TN near some
relatives. No one knows what happened to Leftwich Montgomery. According to Bettie Doyle, Charlotte
Massa Montgomery had three children fathered by Hiram Spears, one of them being my great-great
grandfather, Harvey Blackburn Montgomery. The three children fathered by Hiram Spears carried the
Montgomery surname, but were not a Montgomery.
Hiram Spears must have been a character. Because according some other information I have read, Hiram
fathered children by three different women. However, he only had one wife. I have corresponded with other
people that are wanting to learn more about Charlotte Massa and Hiram Spears. But trying to learn more about
this couple is proving difficult.
Person ID I22814 MontyHistNotes_II Last Modified 6 Sep 2025
Family 1 Hiram Spears, b. 1816, White, Tennessee, USA d. 7 Jan 1902, Putnam, Tennessee, USA (Age 86 years) Children 1. Rachel Montgomery, b. 1863, Tennessee, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. Harvey Blackburn Montgomery, b. 11 May 1866, Tennessee, USA d. 16 Jul 1934, Putnam, Tennessee, USA (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F9547 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Sep 2025
Family 2 William Leftwick Montgomery, b. 1829, White, Tennessee, USA d. 1859, Wayne, Missouri, USA (Age 30 years) Marriage 26 Oct 1846 White, Tennessee, USA [2] Children 1. Elizabeth Carolyn Montgomery, b. 1848, Missouri, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Sarah Emmeline Montgomery, b. 20 Jun 1849, Wayne, Missouri, USA d. 7 Feb 1924 (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 3. James Montgomery, b. 1852, Missouri, USA d. 1880 (Age 28 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 4. William Thomas Montgomery, b. 20 Sep 1857, White, Tennessee, USA d. 31 Jan 1925, Sturgis, Union, Kentucky, USA (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F9544 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Sep 2025
- BIOGRAPHY: Question answered by descendant, Cindy Montgomery Grossholz, in e-mail dated 8/15/2001: >You show the parents of Harvey Blackburn Montgomery to be "Hiram Spears and Charlotte
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Event Map 
Birth - 6 Dec 1828 - White, Tennessee, USA 
Marriage - 26 Oct 1846 - White, Tennessee, USA 
Residence - District 101 - 1850 - Wayne, Missouri, USA Residence - District 7 - 1860 - White, Tennessee, USA Death - 8 Jan 1899 - White, Tennessee, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S1777] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: District 101, Wayne, Missouri; Roll: M432_421; Page: 197B; Image: 396.
Record for Charlotte Montgomery
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=4200114&indiv=try - [S168] Ancestry.com, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;).
Record for Leftwich Montgomery
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=TNstatemarriages&h=3276988&indiv=try - [S2512] Mee, Jane Montgomery, Email from Jane Montgomery Mee, (Date: 9 Oct 2014;), Comments posted on Facebook page.
- [S3446] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;;), Year: 1860; Census Place: District 7, White, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1279; Page: 63; Image: 131; Family History Library Film: 805279.
Record for Charlotta Montgomery
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=19591546&indiv=try - [S3290] Ancestry.com, Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;).
Record for William Thos Montgomery
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FSMarriageKentucky&h=1825787&indiv=try - [S1002] Ancestry.com, Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958; Roll Number: 7.
Record for Harvey B Montgomery
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2376&h=249977&indiv=try
- [S1777] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: District 101, Wayne, Missouri; Roll: M432_421; Page: 197B; Image: 396.