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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Nancy Jane Mason: Birth: 22 May 1848 in Columbiana, Shelby Co., AL.

  2. James Wiley Mason: Birth: 2 Jul 1850 in Columbiana, Shelby Co., AL.

  3. Frances Ann Mason: Birth: 5 May 1852 in Alabama, prob Shelby Co.. Death: 13 Jul 1914 in Graham, Young Co., Texas

  4. David Heird Mason: Birth: ABT 1855 in Alabama.

  5. Priscilla Dianna Mason: Birth: ABT 1858 in Alabama.

  6. Mary Elizabeth Mason: Birth: 25 Mar 1859 in Alabama.

  7. Noel Griffith Douglas Mason: Birth: ABT 1861 in Alabama.

  8. Clarissa Jane Mason: Birth: ABT 1863 in Alabama.

  9. Lucy Medora Mason: Birth: ABT 1866 in Alabama.

  10. Mary E. Mason: Birth: 1869 in Columbiana, Shelby Co., AL.


Notes
a. Note:   . In 1870 census bp given as Tennessee she was born in McMinn Co., Tennessee and came to Shelby Springs, AL at and early age she married at 15 (family history) Mary Ann S. T. Harris was born on May 13, 1831.....in McMinn Co., Tenn. Her family moved to Shelby Springs, Alabama some time later. On January 4,1846 she married David George Mason, of Columbiana, Alabama. He was some 20 years older than she , at the time. They lived on a farm about 4 miles outside of Columbiana, and over the years had 9 children. Four of those 9 survived her in 1916. They were living on this farm during the Civil War, when Wilson's Raider's came through the area to destroy everything in their path, on their way to destroy a munitions factory in Selma, Ala. You have probably read my description of what happened on the farm at that time. I wrote of it when Shelby Co. published it's historical book. Following the death of her husband, David, she went with some of her family to Texas to live......and I believe she lived with her son Noel Griggs (Grifftith ?) Mason, until his death in 1905. At that time she apparently went to live with her daughter Priscilla Diane Mason Freeman, and was there with them when she passed away on Dec. 1,1916....in Romney Texas. At the time of her death, she still had two brothers living...one was David C. Harris of Abilene, Texas .and James M. Harris of Shelby Springs, Ala. My father told me years ago that she also had a brother named Joe Harris, Jr., but he may not have been living at the time of her death. My father never knew either of his grandparents, because he was not born until 1893. He helped his father take care of his grandfather's grave in the Columbiana Cemetary, until about 1912, when they moved into Birmingham,Ala. Mary Ann Harris Mason is buried , along with some of her children, in the Oakwood Cemetary in Cisco ,Texas.......in Eastland County. They are as follows: Mary Ann Harris Mason- born May 13,1831.........died Dec. 1, 1916 Mollie E., wife of H.C. Overby .........born March 25,1869.....died July 30, !895 This was Mary Elizabeth Mason ( Mrs. Hubert E. Overby),another record lists her birth as 1859. Thomas D. Freeman-born 1859-died1935 Priscilla D.Freeman-born 1858-died1936 This was Priscilla Dianne Mason George L. Farrington-born March 11,1890-died Dec.27,1916 W.C.Farrington-born Fe. 28,1850-died Feb. 15, 1907 Corintha A.Farrington-born July 20,1854-died June 10,1904 This has some connection to Noel, who married a Ella Farrington on April 21,1897 ~from Anne Mason Stapleton
Note:   1850 census Name Mary given two middle initials, A. and J or T. also bp given as Alabama


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