The Mason Family
Edmond Mason is reported to have been born in Virginia about 1790. He moved to Tennessee where he married Rebecca Elizabeth Woods on December 25, 1819. He enlisted as a private in the War of 1812 at Knoxville, Tennessee, serving from October 6, 1814 to May 1, 1815 in Captain Daniel Price's Company of the Tennessee Militia.
Edmond and family are listed on the 1820 census of Rutherford County, Tennessee, where Elijah was born. Edmond then appears on the Lamar County, Alabama Censuses through 1870. The censuses list his occupation as blacksmith/wheel right. He was granted land patents in 1852 and 1857 in the Crews area near Sulligent, Alabama. An Edmond Mason is credited as being a founding member of Mulberry Church. This could be the same person, as the church is near where he patented land.
Edmond and Elizabeth had the following children:
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Edmond and Elizabeth along with their children are listed in the 1850 Alabama Marion County Beat 4 Census. There is also listed a “Philip Coats” but it’s unknown who this person is. Their son, Elijah, was living with his family nearby as listed on page 9.
The 1860 Alabama Marion County Western District Census Page 68 has Edmond and Elizabeth living alone, next door to Elijah and family.
On the 1870 Alabama Sanford County Township13 Range 15 Page 10 Census, Edmond and Elizabeth are living very near the family of their son James’ wife, Elizabeth (Robertson).
Elizabeth died sometime in 1871. Edmond then married Martha Ann Robertson on October 27, 1871 in a ceremony performed by Minister A J Egger. Martha was a sister of Elizabeth Robertson who married Edmond’s son by his first wife, James. Edmond died April 15, 1873. Martha received a War of 1812 Widow’s pension, certificate 29011, in April 1880 and received $8.00 a month. Martha Ann Mason died June 1, 1900.
Elijah Mason, a son of Edmond and Elizabeth Mason, married Margaret, whose last name is unknown, in 1844. She is listed in one census as being born in Alabama and in another as born in Georgia. Elijah acquired land patents in 1857 and 1859 for land southwest of Sulligent, Alabama around where Sulligent Lake is today.
Elijah and Margaret had 9 children:
John Born 1845
Edmond Born 1846
Hannah Born 1848
David Hamilton Born 1851
Elizabeth Born 1852
Nancy M Born 1854
Mary Jane Born 1855
Charity Born 1859
Sally A Born 1862
Margaret died in 1867. Elijah married Louisa O. Hollis February 2, 1868 in a ceremony in his home performed by John G. Holladay, Justice of the Peace.
Marriage License as written into probate record. (Lamar County Marriage Book 1, page 24)
Elijah and Louisa had 8 Children:
William Carothers Born October 28, 1868
George Washington Born March 1870
Susie Born 1873
Matilda Born January 1874
Robert Franklin Born June 1, 1877
Thomas Burton Born January 8, 1879
? Born October 1886
Louisa Born July 1889
1850 Alabama Marion County Beat 4 Census
1860 Alabama Marion County Western District Page 68
Elijah left a will dated November 26th, 1897. (Lamar County Probate, Will Book 1, Page 92)
Photocopies of will as handwritten into probate record.
He died November 26, 1897 and was buried in the Hollis Family Cemetery on Wilson Road just off Buck Jackson Road near Sulligent, Alabama.
William Carothers Mason
Death: 20 Nov 1954, Lee County, Mississippi
Burial: Old Union Cemetery, Lee County, Mississippi
Marriage with Emma Henderson 12 Jan 1890, Lamar County, Alabama Performed by J.N. Jones, Minister (Lamar County Probate Office, Marriage Book 5, Page 170)
William Alexander Mason Birth: 14 Jul 1891
Charlie M Mason Birth: Jan 1893
Mellie Ester Mason Birth: 12 Jan 1895, Lamar County, Alabama
Thomas Wesley Mason Birth: Jan 1897, Alabama
Amanda Louise Mason Birth: 11 Mar 1899, Alabama
Hattie Mae Mason Birth: 3 Feb 1903
Lucy Mason Birth: about 1909
Marriage with Ludie A. GALLOWAY
Lovell Mason
Velma Mason
W. C. Mason Birth: 1939
1870 Alabama Sanford County Township 14 Range 16 Page 2 See Elijah above
1880 Alabama Lamar County Moscow Beat Page 11 See Elijah above
1900 Alabama Lamar County Moscow District 48 Page 16A
1910 Alabama Lamar County Military Spring District 64 Page 8B
