People

: Phillip Washburn "Preach" Massey; An early settler of Unaweep Canyon, Colorado. He was born in Colorado Springs to Edward T. Massey and Mary E. (Bryan) Massey. 1900 US Census records show that his father was a dairy farmer. His mother was an Irish immigrant and homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1910, when Phillip was ten years old. There, the family lived on a cattle ranch in Unaweep Canyon, halfway between Uravan and Gateway. The Massey Ranch, as it was known, was owned and operated by Phillip's mother, who had been widowed by the death of Edward Massey. Phillip married Rosa Bell Gordon on December 2, 1922. Although the Massey Ranch apparently passed into the ownership of Phillip's older brother, Weston Massey and his wife Nellie, Phillip and his family stayed on and worked there.