Background
Massey, Ellen Frances Gray was born on November 14, 1921 in Nevada, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Chester Harold and Pearl (Welch) Gray.
(Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scou...)
Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scout Walking Owl returned home from the Civil War in 1866 and thought they were done with fighting. But when they met in Independence, Missouri, they were greeted by hostile neighbors and destructive bushwhackers in the Missouri-Kansas border country. As if that wasn't enough, a posse mistakes them for Jesse and Frank James. They manage to make friends with Schell's neighbors, the McFalls, who during the war years had hidden from the invading Union and Confederate armies and eluded outlaws in their shack on the swampy river land. Now, Schell is on a mission to find out what happened to his family and the Osage is searching for his father's bequest in the ancestral Blue Mounds. But the borderland will make their tasks and their homecoming a journey of danger and death.
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(The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worth...)
The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worthington won't take sides--though she has a brother fighting in each army and a fiancé with a guerrilla band sympathetic to the South. Not involved in the conflict, Lettie deals with her own struggles and hardships at home, and with the help of former slaves, she saves her family's hemp and tobacco farm. Upon learning that both brothers were in the Battle of Lexington, twenty miles west, she leaves the farm and paddles a skiff up the Missouri River to find them.
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(During the Civil War in western Missouri, Hannah and her ...)
During the Civil War in western Missouri, Hannah and her three small daughters are moved as military prisoners to a detention camp because they did not obey Order # 11. The order demanded everyone in four counties along the Kansas border evacuate within fifteen days. With ingenuity and bravery, the four of them evade the former Redleg Kansas Union captain, outwit the Bushwhackers who take over the deserted, burnt area, and, with the help of an Osage scout, find Hannah's severely wounded, Union army husband and secretly bring him home.
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(The Bittersweet Ozarks at a Glance is a beautiful and uni...)
The Bittersweet Ozarks at a Glance is a beautiful and unique photograph collection that portrays the Bittersweet Ozarks, collected by Ellen Gray Massey and her students, more than thirty years ago. Had the students not researched and recorded, the information from the 494 men and women they captured in words and pictures most would be lost forever for most of them have died. From 1973 until 1983, the young people published 482 articles and features in 40 issues of Bittersweet, the Ozark Quarterly.
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(Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scou...)
Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scout Walking Owl returned home from the Civil War in 1866 and thought they were done with fighting. But when they met in Independence, Missouri, they were greeted by hostile neighbors and destructive bushwhackers in the Missouri-Kansas border country. As if that wasn't enough, a posse mistakes them for Jesse and Frank James. They manage to make friends with Schell's neighbors, the McFalls, who during the war years had hidden from the invading Union and Confederate armies and eluded outlaws in their shack on the swampy river land. Now, Schell is on a mission to find out what happened to his family and the Osage is searching for his father's bequest in the ancestral Blue Mounds. But the borderland will make their tasks and their homecoming a journey of danger and death.
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Massey, Ellen Frances Gray was born on November 14, 1921 in Nevada, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Chester Harold and Pearl (Welch) Gray.
Bachelor of Arts Maryland, 1943. Bachelor of Science, University Missouri, 1945. Master of Education, Drury College, 1960.
Elementary teacher Conway (Missouri) Schools, 1957-1960. High school teacher Hartville (Missouri) School District, 1960-1963. Teacher English, Lebanon (Missouri) Schools, 1963-1986.
Member adjunct faculty Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1986—2000. Instructor Elderhostel program Young Men’s Christian Association of the Ozarks, Potosi, Missouri, since 1989, Ozark Adventures, Branson, Missouri, since 1999. Speaker Missouri Humanities Council, 1991-1993, 98-99.
Board directors Ozark Adventures, Inc., Bittersweet, Inc. Speaker in field.
(The Bittersweet Ozarks at a Glance is a beautiful and uni...)
(The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worth...)
(During the Civil War in western Missouri, Hannah and her ...)
(Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scou...)
(Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scou...)
(Book by Massey, Ellen Gray)
(Book by Massey, Ellen Gray)
(First Edition - Firs)
(softcover book)
Member Missouri Folklore Society (board directors), Missouri Writers Guild, Ozark Writers League, Heartland Writers Guild, We. Writers American, Women Writing in the West, Delta Kappa Gamma (parliamentarian since 1980).
Married Lane Massey, September 26, 1947 (deceased September 1959. Children: David, Ruth, Frances.