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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       J. T. and B. F. MASENGILL, proprietors of MASENGILL’S livery and
   feed stable and dealers in live stock and grain, are the sons of F. D.
   and DEBORAH (WEBB) MASENGILL, the former born in this county April 30,
   1815, and one of its oldest residents. The grandparents were HENRY and
   ELIZABETH (EMMERT) MASENGILL, the former a native of South Carolina, and
   a pioneer of East Tennessee. He was a soldier of the Revolution and a
   distinguished Indian fighter. His first wife was a daughter of WILLIAM
   COBB, a pioneer of this State, and the marriage was among the first in
   this State, and occurred in the old Wommach fort. The MASENGILL farm was
   the one on which Gov. BLOUNT called a meeting to organize the territory
   of Tennessee, and the farm was owned by HENRY and his father-in-law.
   HENRY’S second wife was a daughter of JACOB EMMERT. Their children, are
   F. D., JOHN and JOSEPH.  F. D. received the usual country advantages,
   and besides farming, boated down the Tennessee and Holston Rivers, but
   is now engaged as a farmer in the Sixteenth District.  About 1856 he
   represented his county in the Legislature, and has been a prominent
   Democrat more or less all his life. His first wife, DEBORAH, to whom
   he was married May 17, 1836, was a daughter of NATHAN WEBB, of the
   distinguished family of Revolutionary times. She was born March 19,
   1811, in this county, and died March 24, 1874. December 16, 1875, he
   married MARTHA, a daughter of E. T. MAUK, who was born May 1, 1844, in
   this county. By his first marriage he had seven sons and one daughter,
   and by the second one son and two daughters.  J. T. was born July 23,
   1849, in this county, and was educated at King’s College, Bristol. In
   1872 he married MARY A., the daughter of GEORGE P. FAW, of Washington
   County. They have two sons and two daughters.  B. F. was born in this
   county August 11, 1854, and was educated at the Bluff City High School,
   and at King’s College. In 1874 he married FANNIE, a daughter of J. B.
   WORLEY, and has three sons and two daughters.

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