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Posted by OPAL RICHARD
on 2/20/2005, 3:56 am
MY GRANDFATHER PASSED AWAY IN JANUARY. HE WAS RAISED IN EDMONSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. HIS NAME WAS WILLARD MASSEY. THE YEAR BEFORE HE DIED HE TALKED ABOUT HIS BABY SISTER QUITE OFTEN, HER NAME WAS EFFIE IMOGENE MASSEY-PUGHSLEY. HE HADN'T SEEN HER SINCE HIS FATHER DIED 35 TO 40 YEARS AGO. THE LAST TIME THAT HE HAD SEEN HER WAS AT HIS FATHER'S FUNERAL. HE TALKED ABOUT HOW HIS MOTHER WAS SHOT TO DEATH WHEN HE WAS IN HIS TEENS. THE BULLET WAS MENT TO GO TO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER JAMES BLAINE MASSEY. EFFIE'S HUSBAND JOE PUGHSLEY AND WENT TO PRISON FOR THE MURDER. THEY HAD GOTTEN INTO SOME KIND OF ARGUMENT OVER SOMETHING AND MY GRANDMOTHER'S DEATH WAS THE RESULT OF THAT ARGUMENT. JOE PUGHSLEY HAS SHOT THROUGH THEIR WINDOW AT NIGHT. INSTEAD OF HITTING MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, THE BULLET RICOCHETED AND HIT MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER. EFFIE REMAINED MARRIED TO JOE PUGHSLEY AND LEFT WITHOUT KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF HER BROTHERS OR SISTERS AFTER HE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON. THE LAST KNOW RUMOR WAS THAT SHE WAS HOMELESS AND LIVING IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. SHE WAS RAISED IN EDMONSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE FAMILY THINKS SHE MUST BE DEAD BECAUSE SHE HASN'T MADE CONTACT IN SO MANY YEARS. SINCE GRANDPA DIED, IT HAS BEEN ON MY MIND CONSTANTLY TO TRY TO FIND HER, BUT I HAVE SEARCHED THE INTERNET UNDER BOTH NAMES AND I STILL KEEP COMING UP BLANK. I GUESS WILL NEVER KNOW WHERE SHE IS OR WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. IF SHE'S DIED, I HOPE GRANDPA FINALLY FOUND HER AND DON'T LET HER GO. MAYBE NOW THEY MAY BE TOGETHER.
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