Dr. Massey, do you think the Edward Rowe in the 1870 census could have been "Edmund"? Sometimes the records were transcribed incorrectly and there was an Edmond or Edmund, several of them since it was a family name. ...but not in my direct line. I remember reading (somewhere) that one of them had a general store. I found your Joseph Massey on the census reports for Clay co. for 1880 and after. It seems a lot of Virginia families moved to Mo. after the war. My g. g. grandfather and family, along with cousins and half brother Henry Clay moved to St. Louis co. between 1868 and 1870. By 1871-72 they were in Harrison co., Texas. Judy