Family of John Mason
John Mason
b. <July 26>, 1825 (by tombstone) Kentucky (1860&1880 census) or
Indiana (1910 census)
(September 9, 1825/BA) (1826/JT) (August
9, 1825/Deb)
m. July 28, 1852, Warrick County, Indiana, to Mary Harworth, by E. P.
Madden, J.P. (Book 2, Page 277)
d. October 9, 1866, buried Blackfoot Cemetery, Pike County, Indiana (age 41
years, 2 months, 14 days) of cholera. A family had died of cholera in the
community where they lived. He was one of the ones who were chosen to go
in and clean the house out. He contracted
cholera and died shortly afterward. The
family was already packed for a move to Texas. Mary decided to go on to
Texas, travelling with other family. (according to Lucy Mason Hodge)
See Probate Records here.
Mary
Harworth
b. August 17, 1825, Indiana (death certificate) or Massachusetts (1850
census) or New York (1860 & 1880
census) or Indiana (1900 census) or England
(1910 census) All census records indicate
born in 1832 (1900 indicates June)
d. December 18, 1917, Cedar Creek, Texas (Death Certificate #33275 - Mrs.
Mary Smith)
Cause of death: kidney trouble and old age. Death Certificate signed by
Dr. Campbell of Cedar Creek, Texas.
m. (2)
m. (3)
m. (4)
m. (5) April 4, 1871, Warrick County, Indiana, to Axley Cox (Book 4, Pg 383)
m. (6) November 1, 1885, to Henderson Massey, Bastrop County, Texas (Vol. D,
Pg. 376), divorced before 1900 (census)
m. (7) August 22, 1901, to J. T. Smith, Bastrop County, Texas (V. H, Pg. 131)
1850 census, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident of Cedar Grove Academy,
a Roman Catholic Female Seminary,
superintended by the Sisters of Loretto.
1880 census, Bastrop County, Texas, indicates both parents born in England.
1900 census lists her as Mary A. Cox, age 67, divorced, father and mother
both born in Indiana.
See marriage records here.
See picture here.
CHILDREN
of John Mason and Mary Harworth:
1.
Nancy Mason
(probable child/Blackfoot Cemetery, dau. of "J. & M.", in same
burial plot as John)
b. December <27>, 1854
d. January 6, 1855 (age 10 days)
2.
Hulda Ellen Mason
b. about 1855? (possible match on census record).
m. September 2, 1871, Warrick County, Indiana, to William F. Ashley
d. April 1889
3.
Wm. T. Mason
b. 1857 (1860 census)
4.
George Mason
b. 1859 (1860 census)
5.
James M. Mason
(probable child/twin?/Blackfoot Cemetery, son of "J.& M.", same
burial plot as John)
b. 1861
d. March 4, 1862 (age 11 months 6 days), buried Blackfoot Cemetery, Pike County,
Indiana
6.
George Mason
(probable child/twin?/Blackfoot Cemetery, son of "J. & M.", same
burial plot as John)
b. 1861
d. March 4, 1862 (age 11 months 6 days), buried Blackfoot Cemetery, Pike County,
Indiana
7.
John "Johnny" William Mason
b. June 1863 (1900 census), twelve years after family settled in Claybank,
Indiana (per Nita B. Mason).
m. (1) November 9, 1882, to Mary E. "Bettie" Adkins (Bastrop County
Marriage Index)
m. (2) November 29, 1893, to Rachel Ozena Buldt, in Smithville, Texas
d. 1916, buried Smithville, Texas (Nita B.)
He supposedly died of blood poisoning contracted after skinning a squirrel.
1910 census lists him as age 45.
According to Nita B. Mason, death was from pneumonia.
8.
Burl Wilkes Mason
b. April 28, 1865 (tombstone), Indiana. Some records indicate March or May
12, 1865 or 1869.
m. (1) January 15, 1885, to Pink "Pinkie" Fariss
m. (2) December 15, 1902, to Nettie McAfee (Rose)
d. August 20, 1925, Cedar Creek, Texas
9.
Henry A. C. (Acy?) Mason
b. circa 1868 (age 12, 1880 census), Indiana.
October 16, 1869, according to cemetery
records
d. December 10, 1889, buried Thompson Hill cemetery, Smithville, Texas
Living with the family of Axley Cox in the 1880 census, shown age 12,
stepson, farm worker.
Not named in John or William Mason estate distributions.
May not be John’s child.
