Family of John William Mason
John "Johnny" William Mason
b. June 1863 (1900 census) twelve years after family settled in Claybank,
Indiana (Nita B. Mason).
1910 census confirms birthplace as Indiana, father born Indiana and mother
born in England.
m. (1) November 9, 1882, to Mary E. “Bettie” Adkins, Bastrop Co., TX Vol. D,
Pg. 88
m. (2) November 29, 1893, to Rachel Ozena Buldt (or Bolt, Bastrop Co. Texas, Vol
F, Pg. 339),
in Smithville, Texas (1910 census
shows married 6 years.)
d. 1916 (Nita B. Mason), buried in Smithville, Texas. He supposedly died of
blood poisoning contracted after skinning
a squirrel. According to Nita B. Mason, death was from pneumonia.
Middle name given on birth record of son Jones Acy Mason.
Rachel
Ozena Buldt
b. March 9, 1872/1873 or 1878, in Smithville, Texas
(RAM - gives birth March 9, 1875, Altair, Colorado County, Texas)
m. (2) Willie Eastland, moved near Eagle Lake, Texas
(1 daughter, Berniece Eastland, m. Sidney Ashley (d. 1998), lived in Rosenberg,
Texas)
d. November 1961, buried Wharton, Texas, Evergreen Cemetery (with Eastlands)
1910 census shows age 32.
1900 census indicates father born in Georgia, mother in Alabama.
Name shown as Boalt on birth record of son Jones Acy Mason.
CHILDREN
of John Mason and Mary E. “Bettie” Adkins:
1. Dock Washington X. Mason
CHILDREN
of John Mason and Rachel Buldt:
2.
Ollie Thomas Mason
3.
Zelma Beatrice Mason
4.
Jesse Lyle Mason
5. Zina Peter Mason
6. son,
name unknown
7.
John Powell Mason
8.
Charles Acy Jones Mason
9. Ernest
Mason
10.
David Jewel Mason
b. April 18, 1918(?) (possible SS# match shows b. April 18, 1914, resided
Boling, Texas)
d. July 4, 1984, Wharton County, Texas
